the awesome/terrifying freedom

the new york post is the biggest piece of shit newspaper in the city. sorry anne, you seemed so nice when you interviewed me on the phone, and i understand the difficulty in getting good internships fresh out of college, so i'm willing to give you the benefit of the doubt that 'the post' was not your first choice. please tell me you didn't go to school for journalism so that you could pursue a dream of writing propaganda for rupert murdoch. anyway, congrats on getting your article published! and you didn't even have to give it a headline like 'GAY TEMP COULD BE WORKING FOR YOUR COMPANY.'

bush and ashcroft are riding their wave of nationalistic popularity as far as they possibly can. fresh off the heels of rick santorum's anti-gay statements having no negative impact on his career, ashcroft has barred u.s. justice department employees from holding their annual gay pride celebration.

amazing. this goes beyond 'don't ask, don't tell.' this is 'we're telling you: don't tell.' better yet, it's 'don't exist.' are we back in the reagan years? bush must be so disappointed that despite killing hundreds of thousands, reagan wasn't quite able to exterminate all the homos in the 80's. i fear a huge gay backlash coming. we can't make a few strides, can we, without someone freaking out that we're trying to take over the world.