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Dr. Larry Gives Sex Charges Advice!
Idaho’s toe-tapping airport restroom Senator, Larry Craig, is now giving sex-charges advice to Republican Senator David Vitter. Doing a Doctor Ruth on how to respond to the charges, Craig told Vitter: “First and foremost, in these kinds of issues, it’s the state and the relationship you have with your state that really determines where you ought to go. That was certainly my case. The Senate itself wasn’t going to judge me. I would allow the citizens of my state to do so. And there is still strong support there. My story became a situation where my wife and I watched it almost as if it were caricatures out there being talked about. It certainly wasn’t me, but that was quite typical in a 24/7 news cycle like we have today.” Craig made a national fool of himself when he pleaded guilty to soliciting for man-on-man sex in the Minneapolis airport then claimed he was innocent because he was confused and too stupid to hire a lawyer. Then he was going to resign, then he wasn’t, and is back again. My God, what an asshole.
Fair and Mentally–Imbalanced!
I admit, I was uncomfortable reporting the story a couple weeks ago about pregnant man Thomas Beatie, but at least I wasn’t hateful about it. This was not the case of Greg Gurfeld on Faux News Channel’s “Red Eye” news/talk program. Gurfeld and co-hosts resorted to calling Beatie a “sideshow” and saying “twenty-years ago this person would be traveling in a carnival”. But if that wasn’t bad enough, the trio then went on to say that Beatie, “should kill ‘itself’. Maybe they should just put Beatie in an empty lot and stone ‘it’ to death.” And when Beatie actually gives birth, they hope, “When he pushes that baby out, I hope it's the worst experience in his life. I hope the blood vessels pop in his eyes. I hope it is so painful." It appears to me that “Red Eye” just gave Faux News Channel a giant black eye.
Just Change the Friggin’ Channel!
That bastion of supporting the United States’ “Bill of Rights”, the American Family Association, has requested that the Marriott Hotel chain remove the porn channels, both gay and straight, from their in-hotel television channels. I find myself in full agreement with the AFA as long as all religious channels are also removed. After all, what can possibly be more obscene than the lies and hypocrisy those channels force on their viewers? Marriott operates over 3,000 hotels in the U.S. and 67 other countries and is one of the many hotel chains that offers adult channels to their guests.
Is Our State’s Legislature Becoming Fair?!
Legislation that would prohibit discrimination against gays and lesbians in employment, housing and public accommodations throughout Florida passed a key Senate committee. With the support of both Democrats and Republicans the Senate Commerce Committee approved the bill by a vote of 7 to 1. "Today's vote is truly historic," said Rand Hoch, president of the Palm Beach County Human Rights Council. "This demonstrates that Florida lawmakers are finally beginning to understand the need for a statewide law prohibiting discrimination faced by the LGBT community.” However, at this writing, the bill is now stalled in the Florida House.
For Absolut Size-Queens Only!
“There are two things I hate, size-queens and guys with small dicks.” Absolut Vodka has done it again with a new advertising campaign which kind of pokes fun at the secret size queen in all of us. (Go ahead, deny it all you want but you know you’re a size queen.) This is the new Absolut “Ruler” campaign which a representative of Absolut says, “As a long-time supporter of the gay and lesbian community, we acknowledge that you can’t simply speak to gay men and lesbians as consumers, but instead need to make real connections to their lives which we believe we are achieving with our new creative executions. As a company, we respect gay men and lesbians not simply in advertising messages, but behind the scenes as well. We’re not gay-washing here."
We’ve Come a Long Way, Bronnie!
I remember when “All in the Family” had one of the earliest one-time-only gay characters and “Soap” had the first re-occurring gay character, but we have come so far since then. Anyone who knows me knows that I’m a huge reality television fan, so when Bravo rolled out it’s “Make Me a Supermodel” I couldn’t resist it. But the show had more to offer than just beautiful guys, it offered true straight/gay affection toward two male contestants. You had Ronnie, 25, a gay activist from Chicago and Ben, 22, a straight, married prison guard from Nashville competing against and with each other. As the show worked through it’s weeks, the friendship, and yes, sexual tension, between them grew also. The producers labeled their platonic relationship as “Bronnie”. They were really cute together and complimented each other perfectly. Ronnie would flirt with Ben, Ben would flirt back. It was a beautiful relationship and really a television moment that should not have been missed. Bravo to Bravo, Ronnie and Ben for helping make straight/gay relationships so accepting to our uptight nation.
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