– line from a Willie Nelson song
The Bush Administration has once again been caught up in its own bullshit.
Randall Tobias, an Abstinence Czar in charge of AIDS foreign aid, had to resign in a hurry over the weekend after his name was linked to “a Washington call-girl ring”, as the Washington Post rather antiquely put it.
Antique because so-called “scandals” involving joy girls — or joy boys, for that matter (like the model playing one at right) — are amusing non-starters for most of us, including the Washington Post.
Especially when such merely human peccadilloes are placed against the backdrop of recent and truly egregious Bush fuckups — the mismanagement of military aftercare at Walter Reed Hospital, say, or the systematic leaking of an undercover CIA agent’s name by a White House intent on selling a war with disinformation.
The only reason the call-girl story has traction is because Republicans are involved, and not just Republicans but those who have set themselves up as caped crusaders in a “morals” war on sex. (more…)
We live, Gore Vidal observed during the Salem Witch Follies known as the Starr Investigation, in a nation “evenly divided between political reactionaries and religious maniacs.”
Good news, bad news.
As Brokeback was a clear-eyed picture of gay men in love that accurately assayed an American landscape of self-loathing and violence, so too did Dreamgirls, in its seemingly lighter way, show the sidetracking of black talent in a culture that awards sameness over sharp-angled innovation, that can only superficially look at the sights, sounds, moans and screams of its Jim Crow heritage.
It’s getting hard to keep up. 
Of the seven states considering gay marriage bans only Arizona rejected the measure, by a narrow margin, becoming the first state to do so.
Girl, it’s raining MEN! 




