Letters to the Editor
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Hooray for Opus!
I'm so glad this comic is here. "Opus" feels like "Bloom County" again. Ack! Phbbt!
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All kinds of levels of fun...
in this strip. I'm glad Craig is hanging with his buddies in the Senate. It will make for endless jokes. Not that there is anything wrong with him being gay. Oh wait, he still denies that doesn't he? Oh well, bathroom stall, closet, I just hope he learns to deal rationally with the reality, but then I keep hoping that for all the GOP and see how well that is working?
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Sen. Craig is not Gay!!
Bi-sexual maybe. But not necessarily gay. (Don't you just love it when your hypocritical opponents are handed enough rope.)
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Not gay...
but he's a naughty, naughty boy.
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"Moral Insurgent"
I can't wait to see if that one makes the rounds on all the televangelist and radio shows! Right up there with "Cultural Terrorist".
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Injustice but still...
Yes I agree that being arrested for NOT actually engaging in any activity is an injustice and a frightening misuse of police power however there are injustices that happen everyday to the people of this country who are the least able to defend themselves, which is probably why they are the target of these injustices. That being said, considering the victim of this injustice, I think its fair to revel in it.
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injustice?
If Craig was doing what he is accused of, then he has to be prosecuted. It's sad that he felt it necessary to troll public bathrooms looking for sex, and yes, the prevalence of homophobia probably had something to do with that. I wish him well as he goes forward in his personal life (while shedding no tears for his political career). But, regardless of your orientation, you can't just go around having sex in public bathrooms. It's unhygienic and it's mind-bogglingly selfish. Keep the moans of pleasure and the love juice where they belong--in your own private space. It's not a love shack, it's a public bathroom. And it's not police gone crazy but well-reasoned regulation of what goes in a public space.
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@ One guy
Considering what he did was signal his desire for sex, i consider it an injustice. Can you imagine a guy in a bar, going up to a girl and saying, "How about it?" and getting arrested for it? Considering the real underlying crime he was arrested for was being gay, ya I consider it an injustice. Again that being said, glad it happened to a homophobe hypocrite repub.
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Must've read a different report...
"Keep the moans of pleasure and the love juice where they belong..."
Wow...don't recall any witnesses to either of THOSE things occurring anywhere near Sen. Craig's stall!!
Although, ironically, that sounds like a line that could've accompanied this Bloom County cartoon! "Back Away From The Porcelain...and Put Away The Love Juice!!"
How hysterically overwrought...
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@ FilthyHarry
What Craig did was several levels beyond "a guy in a bar going up to a girl and saying, 'How about it?" What Craig did was try to actually instigate sex right there in the bathroom. He wasn't arrested for being gay, he was arrested for trying to instigate sex in a public restroom.
If you persist in willfully misinterpreting what Craig did, and choose to put your own interpretation, "being gay," on what he was arrested for, then I can see why you would consider it an injustice. But if you examine the actual facts of the case, he was clearly guilty of disorderly conduct. That was what he was arrested for. That was the charge he pleaded guilty to.
By pretending it had anything at all to do with "being gay," you are just supporting his hypocricy.
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In a perfect world...
"Can you imagine a guy in a bar, going up to a girl and saying, "How about it?" and getting arrested for it?"
Sounds good to me. The less of those kind of guys around, the better.
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Good grief
Considering what he did was signal his desire for sex, i consider it an injustice. Can you imagine a guy in a bar, going up to a girl and saying, "How about it?" and getting arrested for it? Considering the real underlying crime he was arrested for was being gay, ya I consider it an injustice. Again that being said, glad it happened to a homophobe hypocrite repub.
-- FilthyHarry
I keep hearing this absurd "guy in a bar" analogy, is someone printing pamphlets or something? Do you actually not understand the difference? The guy in the bar is soliciting for sex elsewhere. And bars have age limits. The list goes on and on.
So fine, if you want "adult restrooms" at airports, and check ID at the door, then people can do what they want in there. But label them clearly, so I can steer clear.
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Craig crapper caper
Quick! Quick! Submit your ideas about adults-only bathrooms at MSP. They're in the process of remodeling two of the most active johns, so to speak. Cost: $25,000. Stall dividers nearly to the floor. Ergo, spidey fingers and peek-a-boo over the top. 78 restrooms to go. How do I know this? It was in the lead story, front section of yesterday's Minneapolis Star Tribune. Ah, journalism.
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if it was safe to be gay...
No one would troll for sex in a bathroom if it was safe and normal to be gay. The crime is that we allow homosexuals to be ostracized and stigmatized, forcing them to have dangerous sex in places like public bathrooms in order to experience the pleasure us heteros take for granted.
If the exchange for hooking up in public is your job your family, and your reputation, then there is very little choice for a gay senator than trolling for private, anonymous sex. That is what we mean when we say he was arrested for being gay. Sodomy is still a crime in many states and gay teenagers get much harsher punishments for the same statutory rape crimes heteros commit because they are starting from a baseline of being 'indecent.' Running sting operations for gay men hooking up in bathrooms is pretty much the same thing, a way of targeting crimes of gayness while pretending to be attacking another crime altogether. The day I hear about sting operations in nightclubs where straight guys are dropping drugs in girls' drinks I might consider the pendulum to be swinging in a more equal direction.
This comic nails that strange, irrational reaction to a very normal behavior when it adapts to unusual circumstances. It shows how we blame the behavior without thinking and don't attempt to address the circumstances that led to that behavior.