It's almost refreshing, isn't it, when a public figure makes a boneheaded comment and then refuses to apologize for it? That's how I feel about Pete Stark, who was given a chance to say he was sorry about claiming that Republicans were sending sending American soldiers “to Iraq to get their heads blown off for the president’s amusement" and instead stayed on the attack. Day after day we read stories about people apologizing for saying stupid things that they obviously believed when they said them (James Watson, anybody?) You have to respect someone who just says, "Screw you, I know what I said and I'm not the least bit sorry!"
Maybe I just feel that way because I'm such a wuss. The other day I gave a homeless man a dollar and actually thanked him. I suppose if he had vomited on me I would have had to apologize.