Karl Rove, Douchebag, is "Proud" of Waterboarding

LONDON, England (The Home of Carnaby Street in the Swingin' Sixties), March 12 - Karl Rove, a former senior Bush administration advisor, told the BBC today that he is "proud" of the U.S. military's and intelligence agencies' use of waterboarding to obtain information from suspected terrorists, and said he did not consider the technique torture. 
   This would defy belief if it weren't for the fact that between 2000 and nearly eight years after that Mr. Rove lied and lied and lied and lied again to the American people, often through the mouth of George W. Bush, a man said to have been president at the time. 
   Like a willing circus monkey, Mr. Rove is currently swinging through the branches of the talk show jungle. He is pimping his new book, which will remain unnamed here; unless Mr. Rove is willing to share royalties, First of All sees no point a'tall in selling his snake-oil for him. 
   As to his claim that waterboarding is not torture, we do hope that Mr. Rove either has had the technique tested on him--to ensure its safety--or is willing to do so. 
   It would make a wonderful interlude on, say, Regis and Kelly:


   REGIS: YAP YAP YAP YAP YAP!
   KELLY: YIP YIP YIP YIP!
   ROVE: As I told the BBC, I am proud we used techniques that broke the will of these terrorists. 
   REGIS: YAP YAP YAP YAP WATERBOARDING! 
   KELLY: OH MY GOD! YIP YIP YIP YIP LET'S TRY IT OUT!
   ROVE: GLUG GLUG GLUG. (Whoa. This sucks.)

Gay By Suggestion?

p   The Huffington Post has an amusing pictorial story today about TV shows that, long before gay characters became television staples, were gay...ish.   

   Two Dads, anyone? 

   Note: none of the shows mentioned in the HuffPo piece featured Paul Lynde (pictured here) -  a regrettable oversight. Not that he was, you know, gay or anything. (Caftans.)

   The story is here. 

CPAC Joy: A Young Republican Stomps Young Gay Republicans. And Others.

   Things went Technicolor (rainbow?) at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., today when Ryan Sorba, of the California Young Americans for Freedom, stood in front of a microphone and trashed CPAC for having invited GOProud, a Republican lesbian and gay group, to the conference. (The video is below. Here is a photo of Sorba, who, a reader suggests in the comment section, has a "gay face." I'm not sure I disagree.) 

   
     As Sorba ranted, the audience booed and howled. Sorba spread his arms wide. "Bring it," he said. "Bring it. I love it. I love it. I love it."
   The howlers included gay Repubs and members of Young Americans for Liberty, a conservative student and youth group. Sorba dissed them by saying that "the lesbians at Smith College protest better than you do," and called out YAL executive director Jeff Frazee: "YAL is my enemy. Jeff Frazee, guess what, you just made an enemy out of me, buddy. Yeah, you."
   It's nice to see young Republicans preparing for a future in Congress and/or the White House by hewing to key Republican principles: advocating for limited government, ensuring individual liberty, supporting free markets, and eating their own. 
   Bring it (x2). I love it (x3).