With best men like this ...

From the Virginian Pilot comes this oh so strange story:

HAMPTON -- A honeymooning couple was to return Wednesday night to find their home had been set on fire while they were away, and that police arrested the best man at their wedding and charged him with setting the blaze.

That's right, the best man stood at the reception hall waiving good-bye to the newlyweds and then proceeded to torch their home. And, like seemingly every story these days, this one needs to have a racial component.

He would not say what the motive was, but said it was not racially driven. Del. Thomas Gear, R-Hampton, the bride's father, had feared the blaze could have been a hate crime.

The house belonged to the former Shannon Gear, 32, who is white, and her new husband, Anthony Williams, who is black. Overton also is black, Rickett said.

That's a pretty impressive trifecta there, folks: interratial love, arson, a hate crime investigation, and a Republican politician, all in one neat little package. Who'd a thunk that was possible?