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Dont Ask, Just Tell

Wednesday, August 4th, 2010

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There’s been much controversy about a Pentagon survey that was sent recently to enlisted men and women, seeking their views on the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT).

The survey asks such questions as how unit morale might be affected under a gay commander and how a repeal might affect willingness to serve in the military. One multiple-choice query asks, “If a gay or lesbian service member was living with a same sex partner on base, what would you most likely do?” with the answer options ranging from “I would get to know them” to “I would probably move off base” to “I would key their car and write ‘F.A.G.’ on their footlocker.” OK, the last one was not an actual option, but it might as well have been. The question is every bit as bigoted as if it had asked, “How would you feel if a couple of Jews moved next door?” (more…)

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I am Phobophobic

Monday, April 26th, 2010

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Phobophobia  n. (fo-bo-fo-bee-uh) The fear of fear

Of all the results of Super Tuesday 2004, none so sickening as the overwhelming majority to strike down gay marriage. Of course, a lot of people don’t agree with this thesis. They say gay marriage wasn’t an important issue at all. That during a time when war is waging, the economy is teetering, our health care system is diseased, and The View is still on the air — that it was a huge waste of time arguing over such a silly non-issue as gay marriage.

Bullshit. (more…)

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Marriage With an Asterisk

Saturday, April 24th, 2010

As the country rages over whether homosexuals should be permitted to marry, I feel a need to weep. There is so much name calling and finger pointing on both sides that it seems there can be no answer to which everyone will agree.

Or is there?

It just so happens that we here at the Sordid Tales Department of Social Engineering have the solution to this controversial cultural conflict. It’s called Marriage with an Asterisk. Problem solved. (more…)

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Stupid Cubed

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

Ever since the citizens of Maine and Oregon voted to snub their homosexual brethren by denying them the right to marry (et tu, progressive states?), I really wanted to write a rant (wrant) about it. The problem was, I had wranted so much about California’s own Prop. 8 gay marriage snub—I wasn’t sure I wanted to go there again.

Until today, when I happened upon a statistic saying of the 31 states (including Maine and Oregon) that put same-sex marriage to a popular vote, every one of them shot it down!

Not to be confused with the five states (Massachusetts, Vermont, Connecticut, Iowa, New Hampshire) that legalized gay marriage via the legislature, the 31 states in question took the issue to the citizens, and the citizens denied it, as if to say, “Get back in the dungeon, gay people! You’re scaring the kids!” (more…)

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Armageddon of Queer
(Tearing the very fabric of society)

Friday, June 19th, 2009

“I don’t know of any society that has embraced sodomy and survived.”
Pat Robertson


Day 1 (
Monday, March 27, 2018 ):

I noticed it the moment I awoke; a peculiar feeling that somehow the very fabric of our existence had been altered in some terrible, irreversible manner.

I dragged myself out of bed, walked to the front room, looked out the window, and couldn’t believe what I saw. The sky was black and orange, emergency vehicles whizzed by, a dozen or so stalks of smoke and flame billowed from upturned automobiles, and a dog was trotting down the street with a charred human leg between his foaming jaws.

I retrieved the newspaper and read the headline: Supreme Court Decision Allows Gays to Marry: Very fabric of society torn.”

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The Definition of Definition

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

Since Miss California’s mumble-tastic response to Perez Hilton’s question about gay nuptials, there has been a lot of chatter in the media (again) about the definition of marriage.

A recurring argument by the traditional-marriage crowd, or, as I like to call them, the Anti-Gay Relationship Orthodoxy (AGRO), is that marriage has always been defined as a union between one man and one woman. And guess what? They’re right! In every dictionary I checked, marriage is primarily defined as a union between one man and one woman. What they don’t say is that most words have multiple definitions, such as the words in my trusty American Heritage 3rd Edition, which additionally defines marriage as, simply, “a close union.”

This is not the only problem with the AGRO argument.

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Frivolous or Fabulous
(Of Brave Hearts and Irritable Bowels)

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

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You’ve probably heard about the four firefighters who recently won a sexual-harassment lawsuit against the city in the amount of approximately $30K.

According to their complaints, the firemen, John Ghiotto, Jason Hewitt, Alex Kane and Chad Allison, were ordered by their superiors to participate in the 2007 Gay Pride parade, during which they were subjected to all sorts of, you know, gay stuff: cat-calls, blow-kisses, Excessive Butt Cheek Exposure, indecent exposure, Hairy Chested Auto-Erotic Nipple Stimulation, man-prancing and simulated sex acts—all the flamboyancy some of us actually look forward to seeing at a gay-pride event. Not the firemen, though—they claimed the event caused headaches, anxiety, nightmares, peer taunting and irritable bowels.

Upon learning of this lawsuit, my gut reaction was, Are you serious? Nightmares? Anxiety? Irritable bowels? It is incomprehensible to me that these manly-man-hero types, who rush into collapsing, burning buildings, could get all vag-damaged about a gay picnic. However, after reading the complaints, I must admit, they did have several legitimate beefs, causing me to rethink my opinion. Let’s examine:

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A Reincarnation of Bigots

Friday, February 20th, 2009

Iron Jawed Angels is an HBO docudrama about Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, the founders of the National Woman’s Party (NWP) and their bitter struggle in the early 1900s to ratify the 19th Amendment and allow women to vote.

I’m embarrassed to admit that, before seeing this movie, I knew almost nothing about the suffragist movement. I mean, I always knew it was when women earned the right to vote and all, but I never knew the names of the heroes, or the extent of their sacrifice, or the dirty deeds of their detractors. However, even though I had never seen this movie before, I must have seen it a thousand times – just with different names. (more…)

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Slippery Slopes
(If donkey love is wrong, I don’t want to be right)

Saturday, February 7th, 2009

When Rick Warren read his prayer at President Obama’s inauguration, the hairs on the necks of several million gay people stood erect. After all, it was Warren who equated homosexuality with polygamy and pedophilia.

Conservatives tend to agree with Warren, such as Mike Huckabee, who forecast that allowing gay marriage would lead to matrimony between “man and animal,” and James Dobson, who openly worried that gay nuptials could lead to “marriage between a father and a daughter.” (more…)

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The Gay Gene

Thursday, November 27th, 2008

You know, it wasn’t until the Presidential debates that I discovered how utterly stupid is our President Bush. Before then, I was always the guy who argued in defense of the President’s intelligence. Not that I was a Bush fan or anything, I always believed you can not be an idiot and be the President of the United States at the same time.

Then came the debates and oh man did Bush look like someone who just fell off the turkey truck. Especially after the third debate, when he was asked if homosexuality was a choice and he responded, “I don’t know.”

Holy mother of wow!

How could a thinking human being in the twenty-first freaking century still believe that homosexuals choose to be gay?

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Doing the Right Thing
(The day I discovered I was a heterosexual)

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

From the Letters Department:

“Hey Ed, seems like you’re writing an awful lot about gay rights these days? People are starting to talk. Are you a queer?” –Jon

Not that it’s any of your business, Jon, but if I were gay you’d know it. I’d be proud of it. And I’d be good at it. I’d be the best damn gay in America. I’d bartend in all the hippest fem bars, wear all the crazy fem colors, say “You go, girl!” to all my fem friends and give these legendary blowjobs that’d make you go blind. Oh yes, Jon, if I were gay, you would know all about it.

I remember the day I discovered I was heterosexual.

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The Custodian

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

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It’s a day like any other. The Custodian sweeps the floor of a local high school, watching, listening.
“Help us!” Somebody screams.

The Custodian ducks into a nearby supply closet. He changes into his flying suit and cape and soars to the sky.

The Custodian is a superhero, of course, put on this planet to protect the sanctity of straight marriage, to sweep away any threats to the American family and mop the floor with whoever gets in his way. He is a guardian, a sentinel–a custodian of traditional wedlock.

“Help! Help!” the cries continue.

The Custodian has superhero hearing. He can locate a distressed marriage from the other side of the planet. These particular calls are coming from a married couple living in a Texas trailer park. With a powerful gust of wind, The Custodian lands on their doorstep.

“What seems to be the problem, trailer park couple?” he asks in his deep, confident superhero voice.

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The Alabama Agenda

Sunday, August 19th, 2007

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Have you heard about the proposed bill by the Alabama lawmaker to ban gay-oriented books from schools and libraries and state funded universities?

“Homosexuality is not healthy for America,” said Rep. Gerald Allen in a recent press conference, “it doesn’t fit what we stand for.”

If passed the bill would not just ban books about homosexuality but would also ban books written by gay authors, which would mean no more William Burroughs, Oscar Wilde, Tennessee Williams or that raging queen G. Gordon Liddy.

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Eminent Buggery

Sunday, August 19th, 2007

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As much as I can’t wait for the new Padre’s stadium (PETCO Park) to be finished, I just can’t resolve the fact that so many people’s homes and businesses were involuntarily confiscated and then bulldozed to accommodate our somewhat pathetic, insatiable need to be entertained by games.

I’m talking about Eminent Domain.

The American Heritage Dictionary (3rd Edition) defines Eminent Domain as: The right of a government to appropriate private property for public use…”

Talk about a euphemism.

Doesn’t, “Appropriate private property for public use” really just mean “Take”? As in, “I’ll be taking your
property from you now hope you don’t mind.”

Euphemisms are nothing more than a series of little lies to support a larger one. For instance, when I phoned David Allsbrook, the Contracting and Public Works Manager from Centre City Development Corporation (CCDC) of San Diego, and asked how many buildings were ‘appropriated’ by the city for the Petco project, “Not appropriated,” he snapped back.

“Impacted!”

“Impacted, ok, so how many?” I said.

“78 businesses and 36 residents were impacted by the East Village Square Project.” he answered, stoically citing the party line. “Most of which were successfully relocated.”

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White Women Twice

Thursday, May 17th, 2007

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While researching a recent column I wrote about the inaccessibility of Mexican weed, I came across a sentence that stopped me cold.

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The Salt of the Earth
Why I want to buy a round for David Westerfield’s defense attorney, Steven Feldmen

Tuesday, January 7th, 2003

“Let’s drink to the hard working people
Let’s drink to the lowly of birth
Raise your glass to the good and the evil
Let’s drink to the salt of the earth.”
-Jagger/Richards

So the verdict is guilty and the sentence is death. Thus marks a brilliant victory for the prosecution in People v. David Westerfield. But, as San Diego and the rest of the country collectively toast the mastery of Jeff Dusek and Paul Pfingst of the San Diego District Attorney’s Office, I’d like to tip a glass to a relatively unsung hero of the trial: Defense attorney Mr. Steven Feldman.

Tonight I heard Fox News analyst Bill O’Reilly announce his plans to file an ethics complaint against Feldman to the State Bar of California. O’Reilly claims that a defense attorney has a moral and legal obligation to not defend a client if the crime is heinous enough and guilt is certain. Translation: “David Westerfield is a monster-and the monster must be destroyed!”

God, that is so ’80s.

Last night, one of my bar customers said, “Steven Feldman is a snake.”

Hey buddy, care to step outside? That’s the Man of the People you’re badmouthing there. I ask you, sir, “Who will you call when an enraged, terrified, torch-bearing lynch mob marches up the hill to your castle and drags you kicking and screaming toward the bonfire? Steven Fucking Feldman-that’s who.” Show some stinking respect, and buy that man a drink. (more…)

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