The Republic of T.

Damn. I thought my score would have been higher than this.

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It guess it’s because I’ve been watching my language. Starting around the time Parker learned to talk.

[Via Respectful Insolence.]

A new feature I’m toying with maybe adding. Just for fun.

There are so many stories I come across in my daily reading of news and blogs that inspire the question, “What the fuck is wrong with people?” that I’ve started thinking it might make a good idea for a comic strip.

OK. So, I’ll admit I’ve always wished I could draw, and I always thought it would be cool to be a cartoonist. However, my sister was blessed with the visual arts talent in our family. (She’s always been a talented artist.) I, on the other hand, never made it past drawing stick people in the margins of my notebooks in school.

I’ve been toying with various comic strip tools online, though, and I think I may have found a way around my inability to draw.

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What’s up? Well, now we know. First Dumbledor, now this.

Only a week after the announcement that the character Dumbledore in the Harry Potter series is gay, the fictional world is again shocked with the revelation by Steven Blanc, son of voice artist Mel Blanc, that the perennial prankster “Bugs” Bunny of Looney Tunes cartoons is also gay. This announcement, while unexpected, give new and clearer meaning to many of the on-screen exchanges between the smart-aleck “wacky wabbit” and his put-upon nemesis, Elmer Fudd.

Bugs Bunny was in love with his male rival, Steven Blanc says.

The author of “Bugs and Elmer: A Forbidden Love,” stunned fans at the Academy of Motion Pictures annual Warner Brothers Looney Tunes Night, when he answered one young reader’s question about Bugs by saying that he was gay and had been in love with Elmer Fudd for years.

I wonder if the Fundies have heard about this yet, and if they’ve called the Cartoon Network yet. If not, somebody tell ‘em, quick. It might keep them busy for a while

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Just looking at the picture of Zac Efron in that last post made me feel like a “dirty old man.”

So maybe a shirtless Vladimir Putin is a safer bet.

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This is a shameless ploy for more search engine traffic. Some time ago, I noticed that a number of people came to this blog searcing for “zac efron shirtless”. Now, I didn’t know who Zack Efron even was at that point, but I did some research, and after tracking down how this blog was coming up in that search (because I never posted about and knew almost nothing about Zac Efron) I thought it would be cute to actually post Zac Efron shirtless.

Well, I did. I, I might as well face it, I got what I asked for in terms of search engine traffic, and more than I asked for in terms of comments. Zac’s fans showed up, argued with one another, and read me the riot act for posting a picture of some shirtless dude they swore up and down was not their idol. Someone claiming to be Mr. Efron’s manager even chimed in. One even managed to somehow read the post and mistake me for Zac Efron, or at least wrote her comment as if she thought that’s who she was leaving it for.

Well, I’ve now at least know who Zac Efron is, and though I haven’t seen High School Musical, it still seems like a good time to correct my previous error and post what actually appears to be a shirtless Zac Efron.

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“I always said he was a ___________________.” (Fill in the blank with favorite body part. This artist did.)

British artist Jonathan Yeo had every reason to be offended. The Bush Library in Texas had yet again rescinded a commission it had given him to paint a portrait of United States President George W. Bush. In the end, though, the artist decided to go ahead with his artistic portrayal of the 43rd president, even if he wasn’t getting paid for it — and created a portrait of Bush using a collage of pornographic images.

The tribute has not gone over well with Bush’s supporters. A spokesman for Republicans Abroad International described the portrait as a “cheap stunt” in an interview with the British tabloid The Sun. Meanwhile, a spokesman for the Republican Party in Bush’s home state of Texas didn’t find much humor in the portrait either. “This picture is very distasteful,” he told the paper, adding angrily, “Why would anyone want to make a picture of our president from pornographic material?”

Why, indeed.

[Via lancerlord.]

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Too bad we don’t live in New Zealand. Because we’d get commercials like this, which crams in more sexual innuendoes than I knew existed (no, really, I had to look some of them up) but does it that’s TV-safe.

How many did you spot? I got these:

Technorati Tags: humor, sex, television, video

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84%How Addicted to Blogging Are You?

Mingle² - Online Dating

No major surprises there. And I’m not even going to say I can quit anytime I want to…

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Yeah, I should probably do a post-debate wrap up, but to be honest I’m still waking up and catching up on my blog/news reading this morning. And that effort is now being hampered by this timewaster from the new Simpsons movie site, which lets me create a “Springfieldian” version of myself.

Not a bad likeness, even if I do say so myself.

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I'll have post debate analysis up tomorrow, after I've gone through the transcript with my highlighter. But there was one big surprise for me, coming out of last nights debate. Now, I'm a happily married man. Very happy, and as married as I can get right now. But I'm not blind. And while people watching my eyes fell upon a male conservative blogger…and lingered…every time he walked by. And I ended up walking out of the debate with a tiny, harmless, most definitely unrequited (and untried on my part) crush on a male conservative blogger. (Oh don't act so surprised. After all, i had a crush on Tucker Carlson for a minute or two once.) Anyway, I'll probably be over it in a few days, especially if I read his blog. And, no, I'm not saying who.

I’d forgotten all about this, and I’m not sure why it’s come back up again. I thought it was a joke the first time I heard it back in 2005, but then at least one major media outlet said the Pentagon confirmed it. I hadn’t thought of it until I saw something about it on the Huffington Post.

According to the BBC, the US Air Force Wright Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio proposed a gay bomb research project, which was (darn!) rejected by the Pentagon in 1994. If the project had been funded, (at a modest $7.5 million) we might now be in possession of such a weapon, which would cause enemy soldiers to become gay, and also “sexually irresistible” to each other.

Isn’t it always the best ideas which fall by the wayside?

By contrast, the whole idea of gay marriage, which could have a similar effect on society is tediously slow. It will take decades for the virus of homosexuality to be spread by gays being married to each other. But the gay bomb would be dropped behind enemy lines and KARRUMBA everybody would be gay!

Of course there’s the problem of civilian casualties. A well placed smart gay bomb could be targeted at a military base, but is there any way of containing it? Couldn’t the effects spread uncontrollably, especially in a confusing urban warfare environment like Iraq? And what of the consequences to the next generation? Would the unborn be affected? Just how ruthless would we be in deploying this weapon?

Now that I think about it, if such a bomb exists, that might be one of the few ways to put an end to the ongoing destruction there. But, as long as we’re day dreaming about solving interminable quagmires with queer projectiles, let’s dream big.

If we have a spare gay bomb, why not drop one in the mountains of Afghanistan. I recall George W. Bush expressing a wish not long ago. Given that we’re talking about a non-lethal weapon here, why not parachute the president into the target area before we drop it, and give George W. Bush his deepest desire.

Speaking of George Bush, with whom Sharon developed a very close relationship, Uri Dan recalls that Sharon’s delicacy made him reluctant to repeat what the president had told him when they discussed Osama bin Laden. Finally he relented. And here is what the leader of the Western world, valiant warrior in the battle of cultures, promised to do to bin Laden if he caught him: “I will screw him in the ass!”

Of course, as we should well know by now, there’s a downside to giving George W. Bush what he wants. Especially when he wants to send an invading force into someone else’s territory. Too often, the tables get turned on Dubya. And in this case there’s no telling what the effect of the gay bomb would have on people. It supposedly makes people gay, but there’s no news about how it affects their preferences as far as sexual position.

It’s not hard to imagine that Bush could be in for more than he bargained for. [Ed. Note: There's a graphic after the jump that is so NSFW that it would irresponsible not to tell you]

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I know nothing about basketball. I’ve never even played basketball. Well, except for once in middle school, during phys. ed. But that doesn’t count because I had to play. Given a choice I’d have preferred to eat glass. Anyway, I seriously jammed my finger and never played again.

I know even less about March Madness and bracketology. But apparently, thanks to Matt over at The Malcontent, I’ve been bracketed in some madness called March Gayness 2007.

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It looks like I'm not the only one who enjoys those GEICO caveman commercials. Now it looks like those evolutionarily-challenged ad men might get their own television series. I have to admit, I usually stop what I'm doing and watch when one of those commercials comes on. I like the way they've developed the story from one ad to the next. And, is it just me, or does anyone else get a slight "gay vibe" from one or two of the cavemen? After all, only one of them appears to have a girlfriend. (In the latest commercial he announces they're getting back together.) My advice to the producers: make at least one of your cavemen gay. Even better, put him in an "evolutionarily discordant" relationship with a modern gay man. Think of the comedic possibilities! After all, there's already been at least one movie with gay cavemen. And it boosts your chances of success with at least one niche market that already has a couple of its own networks. And if the folks who don't think cavemen jibe with Genesis come down on you (and I've got $5 that says at least some of them will) you'll need all the support you can get.