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SAME-SEX MARRIAGE: A CRUCIAL, CRITICAL, EMOTIONAL ISSUE

Way back a long time ago, the general theory was that gay men were sissies. Effeminate sorts, most likely to be seen wearing red or pink shirts, drinking girlie drinks from straws, and holding their pinkies out when sipping tea or coffee. Limp-wristed and lisping. They were fodder for comic routines, and also for some roughhousing on the part of purportedly macho straight guys.

SHORT TAKES

Before we return to the recurring theme of late hereabouts, let us meander to some other issues and entertainment. After all, being as it is Presidentsí Day (and we always remember to celebrate Millard, among others), how about some levity?

THE SMELL OF BLOOD IS IN THE AIR

Sharks and Barricudas take note: the smell of blood is in the air. The time to become vicious approaches. Sharpen your teeth, tweak your sensors. Soon you will begin to attack.

Various news sites and bogs have picked up on a rumor that Democratic hopeful (and current leader of the committed-delegates pack) John Kerry had an affair with an intern. An intern! How Monica-like. How convenient, to refer to the purported girl-on-the-side as an intern.

GO TAKE A HYPE

Campaign Season is in full swing. Unless one is hibernating, one has been exposed to a deluge of campaign coverage.

Everything youíve heard is incorrect.

With all due respect to Firesign Theatre, if you believe ñand believe it so much as to know it is trueó any of the pronouncements of the press and the media, then face it: everything you know is wrong.

It has been headlines and hype from the get-go.

GROUND HOG WEEK

Six more weeks of Winter. No more weeks of Football. A bunch more weeks of Basketball. And, on the good side, just a few more says until Early Spring Training begins.

These past seven days, the end of January and the beginning of February, made for a regrettable week. Colder than cold weather. As in bitter cold. Freeze the mustache sort of weather. Storms. Just about every day. It either rained, snowed or sleeted.

The roads were terrible. No, not due to the snow (primarily).

THAT JACKSON BOOB

No, not Michael. Then the headline would have been ìThat Boob Jackson.î

George Sessum on his Musick blog has a Fark-type send up of the Janet Jackson nipple brou haha.

MEET THE PRESSURE

Dashed an e-mail to a friend earlier today, and included some comments about Tuesdayís Media-Madness-Posing-as-a-Primary in New Hampshire. After I sent the e-mail, it dawned on me that, gee, that shoulda been on the blog.

So here goes.

Tomorrow night we once again get to watch the pundits and prognosticators engage in the massive eating of the cake and egg on their collective faces. Dean could go back to being front-runner. Edwards could be the new standard bearer.

Howlin' Howard!

(more on this later -- just had a mini-crash and have to re-load the content. OOPS!)

OK, I am back, and on to the matter at hand:

Dr. Dean was never the front runnner. Big Media/Press had it wrong. He was the leader in raising money, and he certainly was the head-turner when it came to savvy use of the Net by his staff. But that was it. The media created a message, and that message was that he was the story.

But the story was the money and the internet.

AND THE "W" STANDS FOR . . .

It stands for "What a crock of shit!"
Dubya's State of The Union was a complete letdown. The same old same old. He even had the temerity to speak of Weapons of Mass Destruction. Remember that canard from last year? There are none, they were dismantled and the program to create them was dropped. But Dubya is still praising his sending soldiers to their death in the name of those non-existent WMDs.

The guy can't even come up with a new twist. Just the same pack of self-serving lies he told last year.

HAIR VICTORIOUS IN IOWA. TRESS FOR SUCCESS!

Last night was the beginning of the real deal as the Democratic hopefuls make their way toward the Convention this Summer, in hopes of securing enough delegates to ensure their way on to the slate.

Truthful realities also made their first appearance, and big media and the press were stuck having to report just that.

No longer is the excellent and ground-breaking usage of the internet as a tool to engender ground level, grass roots support, as well as a way to raise huge sums of money, the big story.