Month: October 2006

  • It came from 1982

    William Joel, doing a poor Bruce Springsteen imitation (though, admittedly, I recall being excited by the brief glimpse of male nudity in this vid. We’re talking 24 years ago, when titillation was much harder to cum by. My straight friends had their dad’s "Playboy" collection to peruse, while I had to settle for two seconds…

  • It came from 1982

    William Joel, doing a poor Bruce Springsteen imitation (though, admittedly, I recall being excited by the brief glimpse of male nudity in this vid. We’re talking 24 years ago, when titillation was much harder to cum by. My straight friends had their dad’s "Playboy" collection to peruse, while I had to settle for two seconds…

  • Noted and quoted, religious right smackdown edition

    “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own…

  • Noted and quoted, religious right smackdown edition

    “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own…

  • Daddy, what does yield mean?

    Father of the Year? Meet Alfredo Martinez. While the Nevada man should be saluted for knowing that he was too drunk to get behind the wheel last night, he probably should not have tabbed his seven-year-old son as his designated driver. Martinez, 37, was arrested after Reno cops spotted his car weaving across lanes and…

  • Daddy, what does yield mean?

    Father of the Year? Meet Alfredo Martinez. While the Nevada man should be saluted for knowing that he was too drunk to get behind the wheel last night, he probably should not have tabbed his seven-year-old son as his designated driver. Martinez, 37, was arrested after Reno cops spotted his car weaving across lanes and…