Live from New York, it’s “Sarah Palin”!

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin gets the SNL treatment.

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Sarah Palin fever boosts wig sales as women go for her ‘look’

Sarah Palin fever has prompted a surge in sales of the shoes, spectacles and even wigs needed for her ‘look’.

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a George Carlin quote on apathy…

“Scientists announced today that they have discovered a cure for apathy. However, they claim no one has shown the slightest interest in it.”
- George Carlin -

Queer 101: A Guide for Heteros

 

As last November’s election neared and a Democratic victory appeared more and more likely, Republicans warned that Speaker Pelosi would impose her “San Francisco values” on average Americans. Americans to the right of the left coast felt in their gut that San Francisco values were a shameful thing, without really knowing what they were.

Even San Franciscans scratched their heads a bit. The local paper’s sex columnist, Violet Blue, pointed out that it meant sex. She argued that the twist in conservatives’ panties resulted from San Franciscans’ sex-positive outlook. Blue offered a paean to some of the city’s sexual rituals, several of which, such as the Folsom Street Fair, are primarily gay.

But even Violet Blue didn’t tell the whole truth: The phrase “San Francisco values” came directly from the right’s well-worn gay-baiting playbook. In a story called “San Francisco Values Front and Center,” the right’s faithful warrior Bill O’Reilly shifts from talking about the city’s ousting of ROTC clubs from several high schools into a discussion of gay marriage. He includes standard playbook comparisons of gay unions to polygamy, “triads” and incest.

So why hasn’t anybody called a spade a spade? Many in Middle America have come to believe homosexual values must be abhorrent, based on the right’s insistence that all homosexuals are radical perverts.

Blindness to difference has allowed the right wing to invent a sinister stereotype of “homosexuals” that has only tenuous links to reality. Radical right groups generate bogus statistics by conflating gay men and lesbians (the claim that homosexuals are more likely to have STDs should more accurately say that lesbians have the lowest rates of STDs of any group) and gay men and men who molest boys (imagine if they consistently referred to men who molest girls as “straight men”). The right gets away with their smears because it has persuaded Americans that sex and desire have no role in polite society.

Queers understand that desire, like hunger, is inexorable and beyond reasoning with. Policy should work with that assumption, not against it or it will always fail. And as the good clean fun of bootlicking at the Folsom Street Fair demonstrates, the only aspect of sexual behavior that is subject to moral judgment is consent between adults. What would happen if every minute and every dollar spent limiting the rights of gays and lesbians was instead spent on prosecuting sexual harassment, rape and child molestation?

Source: AlterNet: Sex & Relationships: Queer 101: A Guide for Heteros

George Carlin & Anne Coulter battle?

A must see tonight is George Carlin & Anne Coulter appearing on the "Tonight" show, with Jay Leno. If Jay has any problems coming up with questions for Ms. Coulter, he might like to refer to this Media Matters list of suggestions.

Politicians in Drag

 

 

 

 

 

 

Snuggly by Mark Fiore

Snuggly 5/17/06

by

Mark Fiore

~ I’m Tired ~

~ I'm Tired ~

Yes, I am tired. For several years I have been blaming it on middle age, lack of iron, poor blood, lack of vitamins, air pollution, saccharin, obesity, dieting, underarm odor, yellow wax build up and other maladies that make you wonder if life is really worth living.

But now I found out, t'aint that.

I'm tired because I am overworked.

The population of this country is

17 million but 6 million are retired.

That leaves 11 million to do the work. Then there

are 4 million at school

That leaves 7 million to do the work. Of this total, 1 million are unemployed and 3 million are employed by the government.

That leaves 3 million to do the work.

Take from the total the 2 million employed by councils and local authorities, that leaves 1 million to do the work.

Now there are 620,000 in hospitals

and 379,990 in prisons.

That leaves just two people to do the work.

You and me, and you're sitting on your

arse .. reading this.

NO WONDER I AM

BLOODY TIRED

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"36"

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