Big Dick

Thanks to Wonkette, here's a great item about Dick Cheney, our esteemed Vice President cursing like a sailor on the Senate Floor towards Sen. Patrick Leahy. Is he out of control? Great way to kick off the family values debate. Read More......

Here comes the judge

As my friend Michael in NY just noted to me: I knew justice was blind, but now we know it also has hairy palms:

The Smoking Gun:

While seated on the bench, an Oklahoma judge used a male enhancement pump, shaved and oiled his nether region, and pleasured himself, state officials charged yesterday in a petition to remove the jurist. According to the below complaint filed by the Oklahoma Attorney General, Donald D. Thompson, 57, was caught in the act by a clerk, trial witnesses, and his longtime court reporter (these unsettling first-hand accounts will make you wonder what's going on under other black robes). Visitors to Thompson's Creek County courtroom reported hearing a 'swooshing' sound coming from the bench, a noise the court reporter said 'sounded like a blood pressure cuff being pumped up.' Thompson, the complaint charges, even pumped himself up during an August 2003 murder trial. The AG's petition quotes Thompson (pictured above) as admitting that the pump was 'under the bench' during the murder case (and at other times), but he denied using the item, which was supposedly a 'gag gift from a friend.'

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The "outing" story goes nationwide

I just got several calls from reporters for national newspapers, national news magazines, and TV stations interested in the congressional outing story. This story is going national. The rumor here in DC, according to every reporter I spoke with, is that the local gay paper, the Washington Blade, is going to "out" a list of congressional staff working for anti-gay members of Congress in the issue that comes out tomorrow, Friday. I have no idea if this is true (honestly), but just the fact of the rumor means people are shitting bricks, and that I think is a good thing.

We have accepted for far too long fellow gays who work for horribly anti-gay politicians and thus help those politicians bash our community. Whether or not we out them in response, at the very least it's time we stopped tolerating this situation as normal. These people need, at the very least, to be confronted over their hypocrisy, and when we see them in public we ought to tell them we don't approve. Read More......

Right, and they said gay marriage wouldn't lead to Biblical revenge upon the land...

Caterpillar Population Explodes in Mass. Read More......

Outing campaign hits the Hill

This is good - The Hill newspaper, one of the two big newspapers serving the Congress, has reported on the nascent "outing" campaign, focusing on gay staffers working for anti-gay members of Congress, and anti-gay members of Congress who are actually gay. (Actually, the campaign will also focus on straight staff and members, of Congress and the administration, who work for anti-gay people and don't have their family values in line).

The Hill:

With action on the Federal Marriage Amendment slated for next month, gay activists are renewing calls to “out” closeted members of Congress, as well as gay staffers who work for members who support the amendment.

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69 Said Dead in Attacks Across Iraq

(This is JOHN in DC too - I'm in NYC for a conference, staying at Michael's)

Well, if Al Qaeda wasn't in Iraq before, it is now thanks to us. This has all the marks of Al Qaeda - the coordinated attack thing is their specialty. Does a justification for war work if you create the circumstances justifying the invasion AFTER you've invaded? Read More......