It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's a Superbug!

A disturbing article caught my attention this morning that bespoke the ills of an infection allegedly spread among gays. I thought we had gotten beyond homophobic categorizing of diseases that can only be spread by gay sex, giving the self-serving bigots who have ordained themselves purveyors of the one truth the opportunity to coin sophmoric phrases like "gay plague" to foster their opinions and demean an entire segment of society at the same time. Apparently not. I thought science was above that, but there it was right next to the article about Huckabee wanting to change the Constitution to spread the word of his god over the laws of the land and the article about yet another evangelical scandal where the leader of one of the many megachurches conned a stupid woman into having sex with him for many years in the interest of salvation. And right between those two examples of how ridiculous religion is, was the headline: Drug-resistant Staph Found to Be Passed in Gay Sex . The article goes on to say how deadly this virus can be and how important it is to wash thoroughly, but aside from it pointing out how gay men stand a 13 times greater chance of catching this particular infection than heterosexuals, I saw nothing in the article providing evidence to that end. Gays should wash more than everybody else? Is that what they are saying? Or maybe they are saying that heterosexuals do not have anal sex. I could be wrong, but since this story smacks more of homophobia than science and since our press has lost the great respect I once had for it with FOX telling Bush's stories like they are true; CBS offering Dan Rather up as a sacrifice to the Bush Administration and waiting several days before getting angry at Imus for his racist and sexist idea of being funny, firing him only when their bottom line was in jeopardy; NBC and ABC picking and choosing which candidates are allowed to participate in the presidential debates, I somehow doubt the press and their ability to remain objective enough to stick to the real who, what, where, when, and why. Further, the politics behind the press which are so strongly influenced by the homophobic, anti-Semitic, racist religious right negate my ability to keep a straight face through an entire article these days.

I Can't Be Gay...I'm a Christian!!!

Another Racist Denys Their Racism

Notice all the racial slurring celebrities who get caught doing what racists do best always expect the public to believe them when they say, "I'm not a racist"? Seinfeld's Michael Richards wasn't a racist when he took his stage routine to an all new low. Mel Gibson wasn't being anti-semitic during his drunken rant while being arrested for another stupid activity, driving while intoxicated. Imus wasn't being a racist when he ridiculed the Rutgers University women's basketball team anymore than CBS was when they weren't going to fire him for it until it started effecting their bottom line. Neither was Bill O'Reilly when he was so impressed by the staff and patrons at a Harlem restaurant when they acted surprisingly uncharacteristic to his way of thinking, causing him to say, "It was like going into an Italian restaurant in an all-white suburb in the sense of people were sitting there, and they were ordering and having fun. And there wasn't any kind of craziness at all." Nope, he wasn't anymore racist than the right-wingers who lined up to defend him, saying everyone offended by his comments were making mountains out of mole hills, trying to put words in O'Reilly's mouth. Absurd! There is no room in his mouth with his foot in there and us mole-hill-into-mountain-makers wouldn't think of it. Now Dog the Bounty Hunter isn't a racist because his slurring took place during a private phone call with a relative. Everybody knows that. Duh.