so someone in iowa asked michelle bachmann the following question: "Congresswoman, some groups — including this one, I believe — have argued that homosexuality is a public health crisis akin to second-hand smoking. I was wondering if you agreed with that."
   She responded, "Um. I — I don’t have an answer on that. I don’t have an answer. Why don’t I have another question." 

jonathan capehart is offended. and i imagine if you prodded bachmann on sexual-orientation-type issues, only disturbing things would come out. however, i want to point out that this question might flummox anyone. in what way is gayness like second-hand smoke? and the idea that second-hand smoke is a public-health crisis embodies so many pseudo-ideas that it is itself a labyrinth. so i'd have responded more or less the same way, probably. 

truly we're in a 'crisis' crisis.