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Oh well, screw the victim. Who gives a shit about "the little whore" anyway? Let's play this so that everybody on the planet gets their share of the 15 minutes of hoopla.
Raped once by Polanski and dozens of times by the press. Yeh, that's American justice alright.
Go for it guys; don't stop until she's completely destroyed!
Vidal became a bitter old queen early on in life and has never given it a rest; his privileged lifestyle turning him into an insufferable bore whose reputation rests mostly upon his curmudgeonly and snobbish utterances. White on the other hand is in a relationship with a young Spaniard who likes older chubby men, is still writing and chronicling a past that tells us a lot about who we are and where we came from and is contributing something to our culture other than just a criticism. He may kiss and tell but he's not pissing on everyone's parade like Vidal does.
In my opinion Gore has always been something of an embarassment to the community because in so many ways he epitomizes and reinforces the bitter old queen stereotype.
Hey Conservatives: Maybe you should get that mormon guy Chris Buttars from Utah to speak for all of you about this egregious cellphone situation. He's better at kicking shit in people's faces than any of the rest of you appear to be. He'll say mean stuff like you have only he'll growl while he's saying it and he'll make it so mean that Michelle will tremble in her boots and think twice before she makes the mistake of being nice to a homeless person again.
Seriously, call Chris Buttars. Borrow a homeless person's cellphone if you have to but get the guy on the line because he's meaner than a junkyard dog and he'll make the bite hurt. When you've got an impossible job like trying to make Michelle Obama look bad, call in a mormon. Their racist, bigoted orientation makes them skilled at this kind of stuff. Y'all are just amateurs by comparison.
Thanks Garrison. A wonderful tribute.
"He gets the religious right to follow him despite his three divorces, drug use, and sanctimonious hypocrisy. Seriously I believe anyone who admires the likes of a hate-mongering bully like Rush is as sick and perverted as he is."
And that's exactly what's frightening about his popularity. It's like the Jerry Springer show on steroids with millions of people cheering the sad fucks on and reveling in the tawdriness of it all. It's a sad day when role models are scraped from the bottom of the Springer barrel.
By the way, is the rumour I heard about Limbaugh and Coulter getting married true?
Thanks for the great article Joan. It was much needed.
In reality we probably won't have to worry about Limbaugh much longer because at the rate he's ballooning he's likely to have a heart attack soon.
What'a really sad about America is that people like him actually have a following here. I don't care that people have differing views from mine but Limbaugh's extraordinary meanspiritedness borders on sociopathic. That people find that appealing is a sad indictment.
I've gone back and looked at this picture again several times and realized that I've been overthinking it. I don't know about all of the more controversial implications being discussed here as much as I know that I just find the picture ugly. A fat guy in a flesh colored bodysuit lying on his belly faux-sexy is not my idea of a magazine cover that I want sitting around in my house for a month. Yuk.
So I won't buy this issue because I think the cover is ugly and I don't want to look at it anymore than I already have. I'll still have to deal with it in the stores unfortunately. Maybe I'll be lucky and they'll have printed an alternate cover for some areas? If they haven't then I'll just force myself to think of Paul Rudd's furry chest every time I see it and hope that distracts me from the rest of the mess.
Funny stuff. But seriously, that's why I already date only men. Everyone thinks it's because I'm gay but the fact is, I love being able to fuck 'em all day without worrying about getting 'em pregnant. I'm a pragmatist.
But truly, seriously, thanks for the laughs!
Let's all make men the new women.
Men make much better women than women do anyway, because:
1. They really like to be treated as sex objects, so that would be no problem.
2. You can fuck 'em all day, they don't get pregnant.
3. They're a cheap date. They don't need so much money for cosmetics, clothes and hair.
4. They can lift heavy things.
Men: the perfect women. Let the revolution begin.
There are plenty of successful dudes who've gotten naked for their film roles. Why not approach a handful of them and do something really cool and unique. Viggo Mortenson, Eric Stolz, Ewan McGregor, Colin Farrel, Kevin Spacey, Richard Gere, Geoffrey Rush, Kevin Bacon, Harvey Keitel, William H Macy, they've all gotten naked for the camera. I think it's a myth that you can't get guys naked or that nobody wants to see them so.
I do.
The guys in body suits don't strike me as funny or ironic or anything other than stupid. I'm surprised Annie would take the assignment.
Oh, and my list above, I'd especially like to emphasize Colin, Ewan and Viggo for a nude cover shot for Vanity Fair. As long as we're going to fantasize we may as well really fantasize. If you know what I mean.