Oh, Howard

So there's this fellow Donald Hitchcock. He's the gay liasion to the Democratic National Committee. Or rather, he was; he was fired recently. Why? Well, the DNC has yet to give a reason for the firing other than "It was decided we needed a change."

But by a remarkable coincidence, the firing took place

less than a week after Hitchcock's domestic partner, Paul Yandura, a longtime party activist, accused [Howard] Dean of failing to take stronger action to defend gays.

Quote from Washington Blade Online.

Over on AmericaBlog, John A. makes what seems to me the safe assumption that

Howard Dean would never fire a straight woman because her husband had criticized the DNC. But somehow when it's a gay couple, Dean has no problem giving the appearance of taking revenge on an employee who has done nothing wrong. Then again, the employee is gay, so you know, perhaps that makes him only three-fifths an employee in the eyes of the DNC.

Challened to defend this in the comments, John adds,

If this were a woman complaining of sexual harrassment, and she were fired five days later, it'd be a case of res ipsa loquitor.

That's Latin for 'the thing speaks for itself,' BTW.