Like many of you I was giddy and dizzy and buzzing and floating on air last night. But I’d approached the evening with lots of trepidation. Minimizing hope until it started to resemble a form of Delusion-Lite. Who could blame me?

After Bush was elected (we think) in 2004 I spiraled into a horrid three-week depression. I was waylaid so hard it actually surprised me. I hadn’t realized I’d cared that much about politics.

In retrospect I can see I was freaked-out after realizing how I’d been used, like millions of other gay men and women, as a spook show prop to rustle fat-assed scolds and Bible-quoting dimwits into the voting booths to protect the sanctity of marriage.

Voting for Bush while they were at it.

The same Christers had also voted for nutcases like Rick “man-on-dog” Santorum (above with family and the creepiest weeping child on earth, during his concession speech after losing his Senate seat). A politician who also secured his job (and dream of running for President one day) by blathering on about queers and Jesus and the notion that the right to privacy doesn’t exist in the United States Constitution. (read the full article)

Like other big name celebrities in the film and music biz, adult star Joshua Adams wants to do what he can to initiate change in America. His plan? Overhauling Congress this afternoon.

Yes, he wants you to vote. And he’s willing to show you his ass (including his butthole) if you’ll get off of yours and visit the polls today and do your civic duty.

It’s only fair. If he’s going to expose himself to the elements in such a vulnerable way, you too can brave some bad weather or traffic and do the same. Right?

Josh, as his good friends call him, is the star of countless hardcore masterpieces, including Party In The Rear (which — wouldn’t you know it — just so happens to be playing tonight in our Raging Stallion theater of the Inner Circle‘s Video LaunchPad!)

Oh, and just in time for Christmas, you’ll want to pick up a copy of Chi Chi Larue’s WARNING. A stylish, glossy, large format photo book by Greg Thompson that features Joshua and lots of other porn ponies doing what porn stars do best: Going to the polls and voting!

So, if indeed you’ve voted this afternoon, please place your poll receipt against your monitor, rub it up and down three times and then click at the jump to hop on Joshua’s ass.

America thanks you. (read the full article)

Prepare yourself to scream!

MONEY QUOTE: “…Until the day I give myself as a wedding gift to my husband.”

RUNNER UP: “You know, Dad, I don’t need boyfriends…”

David K: The key to understanding Ted Haggard is his mouth. He has one of those irregular, omnivorous mouths — a rubbery, cartoon-like mouth that doesn’t cooperate with the upper part of his face. His oral compulsions conflate with his sense of entitlement. Entitlement that’s fostered by all the power he’s accrued over the years. It’s a bad combination. Gobble, gobble, gobble.

You’d think he’d be a good cocksucker, but as his sex worker friend/Judas Michael Jones revealed to Michelangelo Signorile this morning, Haggard’s blowjobs were only ho-hum. (read the full article)

In the space of 24 hours, this story has gone from maybe to absolutely.

In the wake of accusations from a male escort, Pastor Ted Haggard, the head of the most powerful evangelical organization in America, has stepped down and, after initial — though curiously soft-spoken — denials, now admits he did buy amphetamines and a “massage” from his accuser, former escort Mike Jones.

The sins of Pastor Ted Haggard are many — though they are not the ones he is being pilloried for at the moment:

Haggard has railed angrily against the “homosexual agenda.” He is the chief organizer of anti-gay marriage initiatives.

His brand of holy-roller Christianity is curiously empty of self-reflection, or such spiritual adjuncts as meditation and prayer (other than the flashy talking-in- tongues, rolling-around-the-floor kind). (read the full article)

We’re just crazy for this guy’s …

… wait for it …

Eyes!

The last time we saw eyes this dark and soulful was in a painting by Ingres.

It’s the sort of gaze known as penetrating.

Penetrating, indeed!

He seems to look so deeply into us that our spine begins to tingle.

For starters.

And then there’s that name. Bam Bam So nice you have to say it twice!

It’s a nickname for sure, but we don’t think it has anything remotely to do with The Flintstones. It’s the kind of name a guy sort of acquires. A name given to him by other boys. Actions, you will recall, speak oh so much louder than words.

Now readers of these pages know how often we feature … um .. college boys and … cough … fratmen. Bam Bam is also enrolled in a university of sorts. The university of the streets — “the floating world” to use Mishima’s lovely phrase for it. Here today, gone tomorrow. Making his own way in the world. Living by his wits.

And, we’d like to think, by the kindness of many strangers.

We wish we could tell you more about our new discovery — beyond, say, that we’ve accepted him as our personal savior. But really what more is there to say of Bam Bam? Only the most profound thing of all:

He makes us happy. He puts the bop in the Bop Sha-bop Sha-bop. He puts the ram in the Rama Lama Ding Dong.

Bam Bam is the latest — oh, let’s call him Seeker of Truth — to join our gallery of Seattle Boys. He’s waiting in our Inner Circle to penetrate much more than your soul.

(MEMBERS / non-MEMBERS)

Why is this man smiling so damn hard? Hanging on to that shiny happy glow like his life depended on it?

In many way, it does:

Pastor Ted, head of a megachurch in Colorado that has become the most politically connected church in the country, a man who has the President’s ear in weekly telephone chats, an organizer and instigator of anti-gay legislation across the country — and not just anti-gay marriage, that’s too easy, anti-gay civil unions, anti-gay benefit coverage for domestic partners, anti-gay rights to parent your own child if you are the gay spouse in a divorce — Pastor Ted Haggard had to resign as president of the National Association of Evangelicals last night after a male escort claimed he had been having a 3-year sex-for pay relationship with the minister.

Haggard denies the accusation but took an immediate leave of absence from his church while a panel of church elders investigates the matter. The escort, who said he was prompted by Haggard recent anti-gay activity, has released tapes of phone messages (you can hear them here) that a voice expert has certified as scientifically matching up with Haggard’s vocal signature. (read the full article)