You can always count on Madonna to take herself way too seriously:
“I’d like to think I am taking people on a journey … I am not just entertaining people, but giving them something to think about when they leave.” …
She told Sirius Radio in the US: “I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon… but I want to stay alive.”
Woman, 82, guilty of sex with boy, 11
You may vomit now.
Not only is a Georgia legislator considering filing a bill that would remove the teaching of evolution from state schools, but he thinks Darwin’s theory is a conspiracy dervied from Kaballah. So I guess Madonna’s involved in the cover-up, too.
Much as I wish it were, this is not a joke. But state Rep. Ben Bridges sure is:
One of his constituents, however, said he wrote the memo with Bridges’ approval before it recently was distributed to lawmakers in several states, including Texas, California, New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Ohio.
“Indisputable evidence — long hidden but now available to everyone — demonstrates conclusively that so-called ‘secular evolution science’ is the Big-Bang 15-billion-year alternate ‘creation scenario’ of the Pharisee Religion,” says the memo, which has Bridges’ name on it. “This scenario is derived concept-for-concept from Rabbinic writings in the mystic ‘holy book’ Kabbala dating back at least two millennia.”
The memo calls on lawmakers to introduce legislation that would end the teaching of evolution in public schools because it is “a deception that is causing incalculable harm to every student and every truth-loving citizen.”
It also directs readers to www.fixedearth.com, which includes model legislation calling the Kabbala “a mystic, anti-Christ ‘holy book’ of the Pharisee Sect of Judaism.” The Web site also declares “the earth is not rotating … nor is it going around the sun.”
I guess that’s a Jewish conspiracy, too. Maybe Bridges should enlist Iranian president Ahmadinejad as a co-sponsor.
I sense a backlash brewing within the gay community against those who claim to be our mouthpiece. These tolerance cops are nothing but PC bullies, wasting time and paper with predictable, indignant press releases that exact little change. While homosexuals are being persecuted worldwide, they fret over what some retired NBA player has to say. Their insistence on being liked and respected makes me neither like nor respect them.
I won’t bore you with another of my screeds against GLAAD or the HRC (too late?); instead, I’ll let Dan Savage and Andrew Sullivan have the floor:
Savage — Personally, I’m not interested in being liked by the likes of Hardaway. And I sincerely believe that the gay rights movement’s Sally Field complex—“You like me, you really like me!”—is holding us back. We should be out there make this case to bigots like Hardaway and Washington and Dobson and Falwell and Musgrave: No one wants to change your mind about homosexuality. You can think we’re naughty, you can think we’re sinful. And you know what? You can sign off on granting us our full civil rights, tolerate our living openly, marrying, having families—and go right on hating us! Heck, you can go right on trying to talk us out of being gay.
And good luck with that.
But so long as we conflate liking us—or believing that Jeebus loves us too—with granting us our fundamental civil rights, we make winning those civil rights that much more difficult.
Sullivan — I don’t give a damn if someone hates me for being gay. I’m fine with it. If you’re not, I’m fine with that too. Just leave me alone, and we’ll get along just fine. Now, when the government officially discriminates against gays, it’s another thing entirely. The government should treat its citizens equally, period. But the rest of you? As you please. I’d much rather live in a free country where people are free to be bigots than a p.c. country where everyone is legally required to be nice. Hate is a permanent human condition. Trying to ban it is folly. What the gay rights movement should be about is simple public civil equality. Period. Let us marry, serve in the military and then spew whatever bile you want. Deal?
And what is the P.Q.E. have to say about the Hardaway incident? You’ll never guess.
“Tim Hardaway is a hero to thousands of young people, particularly in Miami-Dade, and that’s what makes his comments so troubling. Sadly, his words simply put the pervasive homophobia in the NBA on the table. There’s a reason why not a single active NBA player has ever come out in the history of the league, and this is it. We don’t need punitive words or hollow apologies. We need the NBA and the Miami Heat to embrace gay fans and players in visible ways throughout the year.”—Matt Foreman, Executive Director, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
“Hardaway’s comments are vile, repulsive, and indicative of the climate of ignorance, hostility and prejudice that continues to pervade sports culture. And by apologizing not for his bigotry but rather for giving voice to it, he’s reminding us that this ugly display is only the tip of a very large iceberg. It would be a mistake to assume that since such prejudice is rarely aired so blatantly and so publicly that it is in fact rare. It is not. And the media that are now doing a commendable job holding Hardaway accountable for his intolerance also need to turn their attention to the deeply ingrained homophobia that continues to thrive within our sports culture at all levels.”—Neil G. Giuliano, president of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD)
The names may change, but the indignation remains the same. Glad to see I’m not the only tired of hearing it.
You can always count on Madonna to take herself way too seriously:
“I’d like to think I am taking people on a journey … I am not just entertaining people, but giving them something to think about when they leave.” …
She told Sirius Radio in the US: “I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon… but I want to stay alive.”
Woman, 82, guilty of sex with boy, 11
You may vomit now.
Not only is a Georgia legislator considering filing a bill that would remove the teaching of evolution from state schools, but he thinks Darwin’s theory is a conspiracy dervied from Kaballah. So I guess Madonna’s involved in the cover-up, too.
Much as I wish it were, this is not a joke. But state Rep. Ben Bridges sure is:
One of his constituents, however, said he wrote the memo with Bridges’ approval before it recently was distributed to lawmakers in several states, including Texas, California, New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Ohio.
“Indisputable evidence — long hidden but now available to everyone — demonstrates conclusively that so-called ‘secular evolution science’ is the Big-Bang 15-billion-year alternate ‘creation scenario’ of the Pharisee Religion,” says the memo, which has Bridges’ name on it. “This scenario is derived concept-for-concept from Rabbinic writings in the mystic ‘holy book’ Kabbala dating back at least two millennia.”
The memo calls on lawmakers to introduce legislation that would end the teaching of evolution in public schools because it is “a deception that is causing incalculable harm to every student and every truth-loving citizen.”
It also directs readers to http://www.fixedearth.com, which includes model legislation calling the Kabbala “a mystic, anti-Christ ‘holy book’ of the Pharisee Sect of Judaism.” The Web site also declares “the earth is not rotating … nor is it going around the sun.”
I guess that’s a Jewish conspiracy, too. Maybe Bridges should enlist Iranian president Ahmadinejad as a co-sponsor.
The Scientology freak show just added a Latin flavor — not that I needed another reason to ignore Jennifer Lopez’s career.
And they’re stupefyingly fatuous:
“Unfortunately, the ‘fabulous people’ get a bad rap,” (said interior designer Brinton Brewster, 38). “Just because we live life in a certain way, they think we don’t have compassion for other people. …
Emily, a history major at Princeton University, took a seat. “I am upset by the Iraq War, but I don’t focus on it, because it’s a negative energy,” she said. “I think we are overanalyzing the situation. I mean, here we are at Bungalow 8!” …
Next up was a blond woman in her late 30’s. She was wearing a black fedora from the men’s department at Bergdorf Goodman, a black Moschino dress and shoes by Christian Loubouton. I asked her about Iraq.“A rack? You mean titties? Like a really big rack?”Iraq.“Don’t ever waste a moment in life. Fly to the moon and play amongst the stars, be happy, understand how lucky we are—and don’t fight,” she said. “I feel personally connected in one way—I’m a mother, and every day in Iraq somebody is losing their child. My little girl will never go to Iraq. I’m sorry, she’ll go to Prada.” …Jacqie Venable, a 40-year-old music producer, was wearing a beret and jeans. She said she wasn’t wearing underwear.
She said the war in Iraq was meant to happen “karmically.”“In my spiritual picture, it has to do with karma,” she said. “Everything that happens in life, to each of us, is what we call into our space. Everything comes full circle. So right now, it’s going to work out to whatever it works out to be. It might be happy for me and not happy for you.”“The people who are there fighting—it’s their journey. This is our journey,” she continued. “People are dying all around the world. Forget Iraq—they’re dying in this country. And their parents are suffering with them, and our parents suffer for us because we’re at Bungalow. There is no separation in the trauma.” …I asked what she’d rather be talking about.“My daughter. Shoes. Handbags. Fashionistas to laugh at. Waxing the undercarriage—from your poonnany to your back door. It’s fucking painful.” …
Did you make love yesterday? Did you make love last week? Did you make love last year? Or maybe, it might be, that you’re planning on making love tonight?
Just remember … when you start making love, you make it long, hard, soft, short, and be Strokin’.
We were each born on the 15th of February. So was acting great John Barrymore, “Simpsons” creator Matt Groening, Galileo, Chris Farley, Susan B. Anthony and the original Penguin, Cesar Romero. What a motley crew.
