Just sayin'...

he can be my son's cool gay uncle any time.

Dan Savage would definitely be the best gay friend for Sarah Palin.

Last I heard of Dan Savage in politics, he was licking doorknobs and keyboards in a Republican campaign office in Iowa, pretending to be a volunteer worker while he attempted to spread his flu to as many as possible. Charming.

It's too bad that Dan Savage's stuff is so beyond the pale, so far outside any normative mainstream, that it can't be used, by extension, to embarass the Democrats. The left-wing base will wink and say, "Isn't that cool?" the right-wing base needs no new ammunition to hate him (see, e.g., Iowa), and independents who have day jobs and families to take care of will say, "Huh? Who is Dan Savage? He's saying WHAT?"

about gay people being parents, too is my favorite part. And that's the part that would no doubt rile the Palins and their ilk most, even as it goes whooshing over their heads at 100 MPH.

I've been in love with Dan for something like a decade now. I'd have his baby ... if he were, you know, into that sort of thing.

Dan Savage has, a) admitted he was wrong to do what he did in the campaign office of the extremist religious right-wing candidate, and b)surrendered to the authorities and willingly served the punishment he was given for his behavior.

I know that admitting you were wrong and actually serving your punishment is so alien to Republicans that you probably have no idea what I am talking about. But Dan Savage has repented his behavior and paid the price for his behavior.

So, really, keep bringing it up. It only highlights the bankruptcy of your position, and your utter lack of credibility.

Have a nice day!

"Huh? Who is Dan Savage? He's saying WHAT?"

Ask Rick Santorum.

Repeating the "birth control" thing over and over isn't doing it for me - condoms can fail, birth control can be used incorrectly/fail, teenagers can decide to be irresponsible, and none of this says anything about the their parents.

I know nothing about Sarah Palin's parenting skills, or how she feels about sex ed, or what she told her kids about birth control based on the fact that her daughter got pregnant. Someday, Dan's kid (like all of us) will probably do something stupid sexually, and it won't say anything about his parenting skills, either.

Also, Palin has said that she's pro-comprehensive sex ed. (http://volokh.com/posts/1220810663.shtml: it's a little muddy.)

(would that be 3? It's just that math is so HARD) :)

RE: We need a definition for 'Palin'

I suggest these as possibilities:

1. A used, completely stuffed diaper left in a public place, e.g., "Did you just hear a pop? Shit! I just stepped on a Palin!"

2. A dog's bright red erection, especially when displayed in an embarassing situation (for example, Great Aunt Sarah's memorial service), e.g.: "Rover! Suck in your Palin and get off cousin Bristol's leg!"

That Dan Savage would be their _ONLY_ gay friend. I'm sure the Palins' know a few gay people but a close friend who is gay? No, they are just a bit too redneck for that. I can just hear Sarah Palin saying "Some of my best friends are gay..."

I just love Dan's writing. Dan, if you are reading this, if you ever get to Berkeley just let me know. My wife and I would love to buy you a beer.

You have no sense of humor, Elephantboy. He licked keyboards & doorknobs to spread his flu!! That's hysterical. I'd never heard that story about Dan Savage. That's classic--rock on Dan!! Hey, any chance you'd be my gay friend? We could print out all of Elephantboy's letters, get drunk, and read them to one another.

But this idea is brilliant.

I like #2 (naturally).

#1 just doesn't seem like something anyone would actually say (because I've never heard of it happening)...

Thanks for playing!

And when it isn't it's at least thoughtful, realistic and humane.

If we have kids he could be their cool gay uncle any time. And I'd show his son how to skin a deer.

You do know that's a "Prisoner" joke, right? I couldn't tell if you were being sarcastic.

What if I posted a video suggesting that the Obama girls, Malia and Sasha, need a "white uncle" since they have so few other white relations, notwithstanding their father's mixed race heritage? I'd take them golfing, and skiing, and arrange for them to go to summer camp. In Canada.

It is always fertile ground, isn't it, when humor writers go after the children of politicians? Because almost nobody is stupid enough to do that, the jokes are always fresh. Still, I need a little help here; I am trying to think of equivalent ways to make this hypothetical precisely as creepy as is Dan Savage, but whenever I think that way, I get a headache.

Pity, that Dan Savage didn't share with us any humor about John McCain's son Jimmy serving on active duty with the Marine Corps, or Jack, at the Naval Academy. Or Sarah Palin's eldest son, Track, on active duty with the Army.

Um...no. Prisoners are making jokes about dogs and Bristol??? God I want to be on that license-plate assembly line...

children, Elephantman.

The headache is probably due to an impending stroke.

Jimmy, Jack and Track are currently being cornholed...er...indoctrinated...by their respective military superiors.

that first line was supposed to read:

[I think it's a give you shouldn't be allowed around] children, Elephantman.

Well I for one would be totally happy to have my kids get a gay uncle. I'm actually unhappy as a parent that my kids have so little exposure the real actual gay people, like I did, there really aren't enough to go around.

Myself, I certainly had many gay "uncles" because my mom was the wardrobe mistress at our local repertory theatre. Not only that, as a boy I was regularly dressed in Elizabethan women's clothing as a kind of mannequin to help her out, and guess what, it really didn't warp me much.

I learnt alot from tons of gay men I interacted with in my childhood and youth, and it did not make me gay in any way. (It did certainly make me reluctant to date women who wanted to be actresses, but that is a a whole 'nother story.)