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September 9th, 2007

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Political News

The political sex scandals just keep on coming. Dateline- North Carolina. Staunch social conservative Coy Privette has quite a resume in conservative politics- eight years in the state house, and nine as county commisioner. Plus, he was president of the Christian Action league. He was, anyway, until he became this week’s sex scandal.

He learned the hard way a very simple lesson. You don’t pay hookers with blank checks. Privette was alterted to a possible check fraud when a woman tired tried to cash the checks, and he claimed he simply lost them. But police continued to investigate, tracing them back to Tiffany Summers. Apparently, Privette had paid her at least six times over two months for sexual services.

Now, I think its great that a 74 year old retired pastor is still sexually active. And I believe that prostitution should be decrimininalized. But since it isn’t, then paying a prostitute with a check seems like a really bad idea.

Privette pleaded guilty to six misdemeanor prostitution-related counts. And he is no longer running the extremely conservative Christian Action league, which opposes gays, abortion, and I’m assuming, prostitution. He’s not giving up his seat as county commissioner though. And they can’t force him to. Which is driving local Republicans insane. Privette believes folks should just forget about the fact that he is a hypocrite, and should simply pray for his redemption. Christian forgiveness should trump all, the ultimate cure for getting caught doing what you tell everyone else will send them to hell. Local Republicans just want him to go away.

Just like national Republicans want Larry Craig to go away. But he doesn’t want to either. For some bizarre reason, Alren Spector, the man who is generally all talk but caves when it comes to voting on principle,  is urging Craig back in.  Its not like the bathroom incident stands alone. His local paper had been investigating the Craig gay rumors for months, and the notorious Republican gay outer Mike Rogers has been compiling information on Craig since October. And other people have come forward with stories about him.

Personally, I believe that the bathroom sting was improperly done. Soliciting someone to have sex with you is not a crime in Minnesota. Having sex with them in a public bathroom is. Yes, Craig was playing straight from the 70’s bathroom pickup playbook, but the charges used in cases like this are so nebulous and open to interpretation that they are easy to abuse.  Essentially, Craig was arrested on probable intent to commit a crime. He did not have sex with anyone. So if people are being bothered by bathroom boinking, why not put up a warning sign telling people that if inappropriate behavior is going on where to report it, as certainly at an airport a policeman is always nearby. Having police officers in the John all day waiting for pickups is almost more creepy than Craig’s foot tapping ode to the days before readily available gay bars and clubs. Just putting up warning signs ought to be some discouragement, and a lot cheaper.

You can’t hear Craig’s disturbingly fey ‘nasty bad naughty boy” diatribe against Clinton and not realize that this guy is a creep. And a hypocrite. Unfortunately, being a hypocrite is not what gets you trouble in Republican circles- its being gay. For example, Dan Gurley, and that should have been a clue right there, was not fired as national field director at the Republican National Committee for being a hypocrite, but because he was outed as gay.

Gay people serve proudly and well in the military, they serve well in politics, they are not the problem. The problem is the homophobic assholes who drive homophobic policies, who spread hate and fear, who promote the notion that gay people are lesser than other people. And despite probably being gay, Craig spread the homophobic message of fear and divisiveness. I have no sympathy for him at all as a closeted gay man or a closeted bisexual, or however he defines himself and justifies his behavior.  He echoed the message of a party that hates him. They are not about to take him back now, and good riddance. 

There’s a great video on the Internet where a man interviews women who want to make abortion illegal and asks them how long the woman should go to jail for. Most of them acted as if they had never even considered the question before. So, leave it to a man to be decisive on this issue. According to Catholic columnist Matt Abbott, they should get 15 years to life. I wonder how long he’d give her for spontaneously aborting? Between 25 and 50 percent of pregnancies result in a spontaneous abortion. Its her body doing the aborting, and abortion is murder, so someone has to be responsible, right Mr. Abbott? 

Alaska has raced far ahead for the title of most politically corrupt state. And perhaps with the most incompetent corrupt political officials. The currently under investigation Senator Ted Stevens described the Internet as a series of tubes . One of the problems of being one of the corrupt politicians in the most politically corrupt state is that the FBI is listening. They recorded former Alaska House Speaker Pete Kott in a conversation with  former bribemaster and oil company Veco CEO Bill Allen,. Kott was a bit confused about some of the perks that Allen was providing him- specifically the pills. This is from the actual  transcript. Kott speaks first:  

"Man, I've been having a hard time sleeping,"

"So that worked pretty good.," Allen said, laughing.

"Which ones are which?" said Kott.

"Goddamn it, I told you now, just use the white ones ... to sleep," Allen reminded him. "And the the goddamn, ah, brown or whatever they are, that's for (explicit language for sex), and the other one is for sleeping."

"Yeah, I thought I was taking the sleeping pill. Took the wrong one. Still got the white one,"

"You're something else. You're something else, Pete."

Of course, Kott has other things that should be keeping him up nights- like a future of much less comfortable sleeping quarters after a very probable conviction on corruption charges.

I can sort of understand Jerry Lewis unfunny joke after 18 hours of his telethon. The man is old and tired. Still, he was rude to my mother in law many years ago when she worked as a waitress, and by all accounts he is a dick, so I don’t have to be completely charitable about his uncharitable description of a cameramans’ family during his labor day charity event. He motioned to a cameraman’s imaginary son and referred to him as Jesse, the illiterate faggot. I guess he had to use that because all of the other minority slur terms are not considered funny anymore when paired with illiterate. And, of course, Jerry hasn’t been funny in a long long time.

I have a better chance of having sex with the lovely Sunny Lane than John McCain has of becoming president. You don’t have to guess which of those two possibilities I’d prefer. McCain apparently can’t even handle high school students. In an appearance before them, one asked him a question about gay marriage. McCain replied that he did not support gay marriage or civil unions because they impinge on the status and the sanctity of marriage between a man and a woman. I sure don’t see how civil unions do that, and neither did the student. After a little tussle about that, the high schooler responded- “I came here looking to see a leader. I don’t.” Maybe the student was unimpressed with the McCain comedy skills. Earlier, when a student questioned if he was perhaps too old and too conservative to get elected president, McCain responded jokingly, “Thanks for the question, you little jerk. You’re drafted.”  Since McCain clearly isnt going to be elected, perhaps he’ll go on tour with his comedy act. Maybe go on the road with Jerry Lewis- The offensive jokes that aren’t remotely funny tour. At least Lewis was sleep deprived. McCain is like this all the time.

Come fly the unfriendly skies of Southwest airlines. At least, if you’re a woman, and they don’t like the way you are dressed. A flight attendant named Keith tried to get Kyla Ebbert to miss her flight and go home ands change her clothes on a flight from San Diego to Tuscon. Its hot- over 100 degrees in Tuscon. She was wearing a tank top, miniskirt, and cardigan. I saw a picture of what she was wearing and I see more scandalous outfits at the grocery store- by the way, what’s with this wearing pajamas to go grocery shopping? Not that I’m complaining, I just prefer teddies. In fact, she wore the same outfit on her appearance on the Today show. Flight attendant Keith apparently had his sensibilities offended, and after some argument, he finally had her pull up her tank top which was showing almost as much cleavage as Clinton, and pull down her skirt. Getting dressed down in front of all the other passengers on the plane because of the way you are dressed is unacceptable, and Keith should find new employment. Keith went on about how this was a family airline, and she was too provocative. Ironically, Southwest is known for its stripper flights that take place Thursday and Sunday nights,  where Los Angeles are dancers fly to Vegas to work during the weekend.  Put Keith on those flights and he’ll have a heart attack. Southwest does not have a dress code, and refuses to apologize. And, of course, the picture is how they used to make their flight attendants dress. Love to see Keith wearing that. There is no excuse for publicly humiliating someone, and while Southwest is not sorry now, I hope Kyla’s attorney makes them sorry later.

Whacko

So far, two of the Republicans running for president have merited inclusion in our Whacko of the week segment- John McCain and Sam Brownback. Now we add a third with Tom Tancredo.

He is primarily known for being rabidly anti-immigrant, and that is the main thing he is running on. As a grandson of Italian immigrants, he’s called for the end to all immigration, legal or otherwise. He manages to be just as rabid about sexual issues. And perhaps even less informed.

He railed against the approval of Plan B for over the counter sales, claiming "The morning-after pill cheapens human life, and simply uses a woman's body to dispose of the child instead of a doctor. It also puts them in harm's way by making it more accessible, when studies have yet to be completed on its effect on young women."

It is a remarkable number of misstatements in a single sentence. Plan B is emergency contraception, not the morning after pill, it does not “dispose of the child because it is not a form of abortion, and it is also one of the safest drugs on the market after extensive and long term testing. Studies of its effect on young women have not been completed because the drug works the same on young women- there is no physiological difference so the FDA has no plans to study its effects on young women. Its not necessary and they don’t. do such studies.

Tancredo does manage to combine his dislike of immigrants with his phobia about sex. According to this charming pre-school window display at Tom Tancredo’s campaign office in Council Bluffs, the Illegal Mexicans have raped 17,576 white children since 9/11. It reminds me of the scene in Blazing Saddles where Cleavon Little gets the Klansmen to chase after them by Shouting “Where the white women at?” He just ups the ante by making them white children and substitutes Hispanics for blacks. He’s updating racism for the 21st century.

So, what does Tom Tancredo think will be the greatest day in American history. No, not the day that he is elected President, but the day when Roe v Wade is overturned. He calls abortion infanticide, apparently unaware that specific words actually have specific meanings. Whether its calling Plan B a form of abortion or calling abortion infancitcide, Tancredo takes his cue from Humpty Dumpty.  When he uses a word, it means just what he chooses it to mean - neither more nor less. If only he could find himself a nice tall wall to sit on.

It seems that what Tancredo really dislikes is things staring with the letter M. Like Mexicans. And Muslims. He really did suggest bombing holy Muslim sites to serve as a deterrent. Yes, he wants to bomb Mecca- it starts with an M.

And his anti-abortion fervor is not about mothers, which also starts with an M, and whom I am sure he cares little for once they have given birth. He makes it clear that it is all about him. He said, “"Roe v. Wade has emasculated us.”  To understand Tancredo’s real motivation, listen to these words from George S. Walter’s article in the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology: "The pregnant woman symbolizes proof of male potency and if the male loosens his rule over women and grants them the right to dispose of that proof when they want to, the men feel terribly threatened lest women can, at will, rob them of their potency and masculinity.”

Tancredo voted to ban international family planning funding, against an HIV/AIDS funding amendment, and an AIDS assistance bill. He’s not big into assistance- strongly complaining about the gravy train for the Kartina victims. He was the lead supporter of Colorado’s Ammendment 17, "The rights of parents to control the upbringing, discipline, education, and values of their children shall not be abridged." Supporters saw it as a way for parents to stop things they disapproved of, such as sex education in the schools, or teaching evolution. And putting an end to these ridiculous child abuse claims just because you beat, I mean discipline, your children.  Tancredo called embryonic stem cell research "morally reprehensible. He has a perfect 30 anti-choice voting record.

In short, he parrots the hard-line fundamentalist irrational views on sex, and adds a dose of his own intense racism to give his campaign a little extra kick.

Remembering Gonzo

We don’t have Alberto Gonzalez to give us cheap easy jokes anymore. Sure, he destroyed the credibility and morale of the Justice Department by politicizing it, and if he was not lying to Congress in testimony then the only alternative is that he is one of the stupidest people on the planet. Me, personally, I pick both. And he was a failure in his number two job of going after pornography. That’s one tiny ray of sunshine in an otherwise dismal career of doing monstrous damage to everything he touched, including the constitutution. But I think the area he deserves to be remembered for is .

Entertainment

Two adult movies that look to be big hits are due this month. 

Ang Lee’s new sexual thriller Lust Caution will be shown in China, having passed their censorship boards. Not so in more conservative and repressive countries, though, like the United States. Here it has been given an NC-17, which prevents it from playing in most theatres or even being advertised in most newspapers. Great, China has weaker censorship standards than we do. The MPAA censorship morons made it clear that the film had too many sex scenes (three, actually) to make cutting worthwhile to get a lower rating, so the film will be released here as an NC-17. There is no explicit sex or frontal male nudity- the problem is the unwritten MPAA rules, rules that if they were written would have been written in the 1950’s. In this case, one of the objections seems to be male on female oral sex. Can’t have that. Female on male oral sex probably would have been okay. And as we know from the film This Film Not Yet Rated, the MPAA is full of shit. What they say about who does the ratings and the reality are quite different. Its supposed to be younger parents with kids at home- instead, a number of them have turned out to be clueless older people with less education than has been claimed. The entire ratings system is an abysmal fraudulent mess that forces Americans to watch butchered versions of our films that are seen uncut in much of the rest of the world. Welcome to the land of the free and the home of the brave. Except when it comes to sex.   

Shoes for Sex Workers. Its part of the Aphrodite Project.tv. These are shoes with a built-in GPS and an alarm. In countries where prostitution is legal, it relays her position to emergency services. In the U.S., where authorities could not care less about the lives of sex workers, it relays the emergency signal to sex workers' rights groups, such as PONY in New York, COYOTE in Los Angeles. 

Sure, its political, but its also entertaining- the MTV style music videos dedicated to certain candidates. You’ve probably seen the I’ve Got a Crush on Obama on YouTube, but now there’s a new video from Taryn Southern called Hot 4 Hill, where she sings about her love of Hillary, with some very humorous sexual innuendo.

Whose Nude Now? Mariah Carey is clearly naked on the cover of Interview magazine, with pinup photos inside by Bruce Weber.

Actress Catalina Sandino Moreno is seen in the all together in her film The Hottest State, a film directed and written by Ethan Hawke, based on Hawke's 1997 Moreno is best known for the films made “Maria Full of Grace" and “Fast Food Nation”.  The film will be in limited release in the U.S>

Disney High School Musical star Vanessa Hudgens is supposedly in a scandal because nude photos of her appeared on the Internet. Frankly, I think these things are less an accident and more of a way to get the Disney squeaky cleanness off of you so you can do actual film work. Disney is now threatening to fire her, which might actually be a good career move and a shame on Disney. The photo was supposedly taken for High School Musical co-star Zac Efron. From looking at the photo, I’d say its time to move beyond high school roles. I wish her well moving beyond Disney and into the real world.

Maggie Gyllenhaal, the dog collar wearing submissive from the 2002 movie Secretary, is not exactly naked in the new Agent Provocateur campaign. But she is seen in a series of risqué poses, clad in black lace waspies, cleavage-bras, suspenders and stockings, black lace, feather boas and high heels, and in one scene she is tethered to a chair with black ribbon-restraints. Its all part of series of sexy adventure stories to promote Agent Provacatuer lingerie, and the adventure began on Spetember 7th, so you can see it now on their Web site. Their earlier agent, Kate Moss, was so popular it brought their servers to their knees, something I am sure that the site viewers were more hoping would be the case with Kate Moss.

Who does Quentin Tarrantino think would make a terrible porn actress? Gwyntith Paltrow. And why is he even musing about such things? Because he told Total Film magazine that he has been seriously thinking about making a 3D porn film. Tarantino said: "I could do an erotic film, I wouldn't mind doing a women-in-prison or a cheerleader movie. But I wouldn't cast someone like Gwyneth Paltrow. It would have to be a cool, trampy actress who says, 'OK, let's get the cameras rolling - here we go!'

Just because you are a police officer does not mnean you have the rght to run an adult site- even one not found to be obscene. Well, actually, the federal appeals court ruled that you don’t have a right to be a police officer. Cahndler Arizona police Offcier Ronald Dible was fired from his job fro running a web site featuring his wife, and his actions hurt the department in the eyes of the public and were not protected by freedom of speech, said the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. That’s right- freedom of speech ends the moment we start talking about sex. Nowhere on the site was there a connection to Dible or the fact that he was a police officer. Basically, they told him, as in the Smpsons movie, “Stop in the name of squeamishness”