And the guy wonders why he can't get a real job in acting.

The Oxford American College Dictionary offers as the third definition of the word "gay":

3 informal foolish; stupid: making students wait for the light is kind of a gay rule.

No suggestion that the word is offensive in that usage; my letter to the editors at Oxford University Press demanding a correction received nothing beyond a preliminary, automated response.

This is an issue I address with my high school students daily; Oxford University Press just made my job as a teacher more difficult.

I've blogged about this, but I have a very small readership. I'd love to see Salon follow up. After all, we're talking the publishers of the OED, here. They should know better.

GOOD GRIEF! Madame Speaker is Catholic! She's visiting John The Baptist's tomb! Catholics WEAR head cover in church, PLUS it LOOKS LIKE she's making the sing of the cross on her chest, JUST AS CATHOLICS ARE KNOWN TO DO! LIGHTEN UP!

What is WRONG with people? To worship as one chooses is a basic human right, and especially recognized in America.

I don't know WHY so many people are so critical of Nancy Pelosi. Is that that they would prefer Awol McFlightsuit ignorant arrogant asshole himself to go there, say something stupid and embarass us as he does every time he steps foot out of this country, and MOST times when he remains in border!?!

GOOD GRIEF!

siri

Associated Press: New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson has made an about face -- he now says he will veto the state bill that would have required that all sixth grade girls receive an HPV vaccination. He'd previously said that he would sign the bill, but ultimately decided it was premature. "While everyone recognizes the benefits of this vaccine, there is insufficient time to educate parents, schools and health care providers," Richardson said. To his credit, he has already signed a bill requiring that health insurance companies cover the vaccine for girls.

Why doesn't Salon do some real investigative reporting.

Why was Gardasil fasttracked? Was it because it really was the best drug available, or did it have to do with Merck's lobbying and fear of competition.

Who wrote the bill? In other states, it was Merck that wrote the bill.

Why doesn't Salon do some real investigative reporting.

Were there flaws in the tests? It's been reported that the "control" was contaminated with elements from the experimental drug. This would artificially bring the numbers of problems associated only with the drug.

Who was tested? Is it true that almost no one in the targeted age group was tested?

How was it tested? Is it true there were no long term longitudinal studies of the drug used to detect long term problems caused by the drug?

What were the results? Is it true that the test did not prove conclusive in the targeted age group, but conclusions had to be inferred from older age groups?

How does it compare? Is it true that Gardasil would be the most expensive mandatory vaccine? (If not the most expensive vaccine?)

What are the other uses of the money? Is it true that women that get Gardasil still need an annual pap smear? Is it true that with annual pap smears, most of the occurrences of cervical cancer are detectable at an early state to make them much more treatable? What has been happening to the rates of cervical cancer of the years? Would a better use of the money be to buy Gardasil, or to make low cost annual women's health clinics available to all populations?

When will the target age group get cervical cancer? Is it true that the targed age group is 10 year old girls that will probably not get cervical cancer for 25-40 years?

What will happen to medicine and cervical cancer in the next 25-40 years? Will this vaccine be obsoleted by new treatments in the 25-40 years these girls will have before they come down with cervical cancer?

Who is really upset? Is it religious nutjobs that don't want to think of their children having sex? Or it is Doctors AND Parents that are upset with their children being used as as guinea pigs to test a drug that was poorly tested with contaminated controls promoted by lobbyists for a disease that will not effect these girls for 25 years when medical advances probably will obsolete this vaccine and that this vaccine will not eliminate the best current treatment for this disease which is an annual pap smear?

Could these people be upset because it is a danger to their children? An infringement of the parent/child relationship? A massive taxpayer giveaway to Merck?

Or are we all religious nutjobs that hate our daughters as Amanda Marcotte would have you dictate?

I expect intelligence from Salon. I expect not to see knee-jerk feminism or knee-jerk liberalism.

I think the concern over Speaker Pelosi being photographed in a head scarf in Syria is the illusion of support given to a misogynist, homosexual-killing ideology, which would be a total abnegation of the values I think Speaker Pelosi holds dear.

By the way, very few Catholic women wear head covering at Mass nowadays, and I would wager that those who do are either 1) nuns or 2) born before Vatican II. In any case, your attempt to link Catholic women wearing a head covering at Mass with Muslim women being compelled to cover part or all of themselves at all times is extremely weak. Or perhaps you could show me the equivalent in the Gospels or Roman Catholic doctrine to this charming line of the holy, immutable, unquestioned words of Allah:

Quran 4:34 "Men are (meant to be righteous and kind) guardians of women because Allah has favored some more than others and because they (i.e. men) spend out of their wealth. (In their turn) righteous women are (meant to be) devoted and to guard what Allah has (willed to be) guarded even though out of sight (of the husband). As for those (women) on whose part you fear ill-will and nasty conduct, admonish them (first), (next) separate them in beds (and last) beat them. But if they obey you, then seek nothing against them. Behold, God is most high and great."

Oh yes, that Allah is most high and great indeed.

Speaker Pelosi should never have lent the least credibility to this totalitarian idealogy, at least in my opinion. Clear things up for you, Siri2K?