Haggard's wife is apparently named Gayle. You could not make this shit up. If you wrote a screenplay where the closeted queer leader of the Evangelical movement had a wife named Gayle, the producers would make you change it because the joke's too obvious. Desperate Housewives isn't that cartoonish.

I'm surprised Haggard admitted to getting a massage from the manwhore. I expected Haggard to claim that he only invited that gay prostitute over to his hotel because Haggard was getting ready to leave and needed some help packing his shit.

One thing that's perfectly clear now: the GOP has absolutely no plan for getting us out of Iraq, but apparently has lots of plans for getting into another guy's shorts.

Maybe they should replace all of those terror alert color codes with the rainbow flag. Bush could also replace his cabinet with the Village People, although there are already more gays in the Bush Administration than there are in the Castro. I hear the Republicans are gonna hold their 2008 convention inside of a giant closet.

Hey Pamela, you're gonna have a hard time voting a straight Republican ticket: there apparently aren't any straight Republicans running this year. Apart from maybe the wife beater and the mistress choker . . .

We have plenty of evidence now that life formed very early in the history of our planet - not long after it cooled enough for liquid water to collect.

He's god. What does he need money for? He's supposedly omnipotent and omnipresent. If he needs money, let him play the lottery and win - he already knows the winning numbers, right?

It's inferior to many 30 minute sitcoms on TV - the average episode of Sex In The City has more laughs, is more plausible, is less contrived, is better acted, better directed and frequently says more about family and the human condition. And as others have pointed out, "Sunshine" rips off a slew of earlier films, especially National Lampoon's Vacation - hardly Oscar-caliber material, one would think.

If Hollywood screenwriters think "Sunshine" is a great film, it goes a long way toward explaining why the average episode of Battlestar Galactica blows the pants off of last year's contrived, clumsy Oscar winner Crash. Television is - as Fnarf also nails it - where all the smart people are working today in Hollywood.

It doesn't help that there's absolutely no screening requirement regarding the Oscars, even when it comes to voting on the final winners. Last year several members bragged in the press that they refused to even screen best picture nominee Brokeback Mountain. Ballots are also routinely filled out by spouses, lovers, children, domestic servants and other hangers on of Academy members.

The Academy Awards aren't worth a fraction of the attention they receive. I'm no huge fan of film critics, but at least they screen the bloody movies they're voting on before handing out awards. Until the Academy institutes similar requirements, the Oscars are gonna remain a sad joke.

Ashley ceased developing mentally, leaving her with the mind of a 3-month-old infant. If you had a 3-month-old girl and they suddenly started to go through puberty, of course you'd have it medically arrested. You'd be negligent not to.

Keeping Ashley's weight down is also of extreme importance, as it reduces the chances for painful, eventually fatal bedsores. That's another reason for halting the development of breasts - they'd interfere with the straps used to hold Ashely upright, opening the possibility of more infections and bedsores.

I wonder if the freaks so upset about Ashely's surgery are also outraged when parents are forced to have mastectomies performed on young daughters who happen to get breast cancer. Are they incensed when parents elect to have cancerous testicles removed from their young sons? And why aren't you fools out rioting in front of the hospitals over the millions of circumcisions routinely performed on infant boys?

It's obvious you either didn't read the article, or didn't comprehend what it was you were reading.

>Ashley is a person with feelings and

>has the right to have aspirations and

>desires just like everyone else.

Ashely doesn't even have what it takes mentally to SIT UP. She will never have aspirations or desires.

I find your profound ignorance appalling.

Stop digging.

>I agree that she is a person with

>feelings and that is why I feel

>the surgery was morally and

>ethically wrong.

She isn't a "person with feelings" in any meaningful sense of the word. She can't even react properly to outside stimuli her development is so arrested. My cat is more of a person than Ashley. She's far better able to comprehend her environment, think and aspire than poor Ashley, yet few communities have banned body modifications to housepets (declawing, neutering, spaying, etc.).

Tell me Julie, do you also get as worked up and self-righteous regarding the millions of male circumcisions performed in America every year? Do you think that's morally and ethically wrong?