Here’s the problem with certain moralistic nutjobs on the right: they keep showin’ up on my teevee ’round about dinner time — tonight in the form of some shrieking prude who keeps bitchin’ and complainin’ that condoms, of all things, are being made clinically available (gasp!) to Olympic athletes. Break out the Jeremiads, God-fearers! Cue fire and brimstone!

The idiotic thinking behind this Victorian-esque posture seems to be that by making condoms available, the Salt Lake Olympic committee is somehow cheerfully “promoting” casual sex among the athletes — roughly the logical equivalent to suggesting that by providing Kleenex, the committee is “promoting” salacious nose blowing (and — in the most egregious cases — really warmdrippy head colds).

Man, if the GOP is ever able to brush this kind of fanatical dandruff off its shoulders, it might just prove to be unstoppable…

[update: Hipster blogger Oliver Willis riffs on the same silly song…]