You know how outraged we all were to learn that homofascists had highjacked Rick Santorum’s own name so that when you googled it you came up with some juvenile nonsense about buttsecks? Remember?

Well, in a move totally not coordinated with the Republican Primate Race, Google has – ahem – amended its algorithm so that spreadingsantorum.com is no longer the top hit. We can all breathe a collective sigh of relief. Except that…

what comes up now is WORSE!

I blame Dan Savage.

This is talent, people. She lost to Grace Kelly, a pretty stooge who played some fool in some nonsense about something.

The song is by the Gershwins, the musical staging is by Robert Alton and the bliss is by God.

Swanee!

Who knew Mormons could be fun? Forget the fag bashing, now’s the time to get John Smith on the pink team. (Like he wasn’t there already. Sure you got pebble glasses in your hat, queer boy. Forget the Meadow Mountain Massacre look what I got goin’ on in my breeches. Oh yeah it’s big. Hey, moroni, get your honeybee on this, bitch)

Right: Example of magic undies. Provided by Prior Brad reaching out to the Franch.

Homosexuals baptise Mormons. (I know! Is this fun or what?)

Looking for a way to bring an increasingly fractious party together, Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell commission a new anthem for the GOP. Something stirring. Something butch. Something that brings to mind trustafarians standing over the ruins of the Trade Center towers. Or homeschooler lobbyists accusing our (devastatingly handsome and charming and sexy and did I say handsome, and no that is not Kevlar, that is muscle, and show me that grin?) president of liberaldick: aka an erection deflated by too much reality. As if. Our prez only becomes fully erect when reality rubs its crotch up against his fine basket. Which requires all kinds of denim yardage to contain it.

In an ironic twist, when Romney fires santorum at Santorum Romney gets splashed with santorum which seems to make Romney romney himself.

In case you’re wondering, this was not made by Stephen Colbert. Or the Onion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtOcrS6axnE

The hideous ‘Kill the Gays’ bill is back in Uganda’s parliament. In the video you can hear the explosive reaction to its tabling. This in a country where a third of the economy is provided by foreign aid. Where these same MPs just voted themselves the equivalent of $44,000 to buy a car – I’m guessing not a Prius. Bahati claims that the death penalty for ‘aggravated homosexuality’ (not sure what that is – though I confess to knowing a few aggravating homosexuals) will be removed it hardly makes anything better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjXrllstKOs

Full coverage at the Throckmorton blog. It’s a long and dispiriting story. Clearly, as in the States (though yes, it’s getting better), attacking gay people is the fastest and easiest way to make a reputation and raise a ton of money.

Finally we have a president who knows how to tie his tie!

Note the handsomely made pleat under the half-windsor knot. That is how it should be done, people! A tie is not meant to be smooth-fronted. The pleat, like the lapel button-hole that is there to allow the jacket to be closed up to the neck, is a holdover from when a tie was more like a cravat. Mind you, it helps to have a tie of this quality that will accept the knot correctly. Kudos on the pattern, too.

The trick is, as you tighten the knot, to pull the long end to one side, which will form the pleat correctly. Also to be noted is the perfect fit of the shirt collar and the exact amount of cuff showing. Plus the exquisitely tailored suit in a handsome dark blue.

Read more »