It’s like poetry

Santorum is defined as: The frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex. This definition was popularized by the American humorist and columnist Dan Savage, in 2003 and is named after US Republican Senator Rick Santorum from Pennsylvania.

It emerged after Savage reacted strongly to Republican U.S. Senator Rick Santorum’s controversial statements about homosexuality in an interview with the Associated Press published April 20, 2003. In the interview, Santorum classed gay sex together with incest, polygamy, and bestiality as deviant sexual behavior threatening society and the family. Santorum further stated that he believed consenting adults do not have a constitutional right to privacy with respect to sexual acts.

Outraged by Santorum’s statements, Savage challenged the audience of his column Savage Love to come up with a sex-related definition for the word santorum with the stated purpose of “memorializ[ing] the Santorum scandal […] by attaching his name to a sex act that would make his big, white teeth fall out of his big, empty head”.[1] After Savage published several definitions suggested by readers, a vote was taken among the readers of his column. Savage announced the winning definition in his June 12, 2003 column.

What Doesn’t Kill You Brings You That Much Closer to Death

What Doesn’t Kill You Brings You That Much Closer to Death:

I am a hospital physician. My department schedules us to work a few weekends a year. Like other doctors, I’m occasionally assigned to split a pair of weekends with someone who makes religious observance on Saturdays, so that he can work two Sundays, burdening me with two weekends of obligation. Is it O.K. to make me accommodate someone else’s religious practices? Name Withheld

Maybe instead of complaining about how some Jew has Jewed you out of your Saturday afternoons normally spent ignoring your wife and shopping on the Hammacher and Schlemmer website for The World’s Best ball shaver, you should remember why you got into this business in the first place: all that fucking cash. Dude, how awesome is that?!

You could also get a hobby, like building your own synagogue and then burning it down in hateful protest.

The Lost Year in Iraq

From a wonderful program by PBS Frontline entitled ‘The Lost Year in Iraq’ (and you can watch the whole thing online).

The most intriguing but nauseating segment comes in Part 3 entitled Within hours, Bremer gets some pointed lessons on what he’s facing. But he decides on quick, decisive action and orders de-Baathification. The segment deals with the policies of the CPA under Bremer, including hiring practices with interviews asking opinions on Roe vs. Wade, who you voted for, and what religion you were. People were hired for who they were (conservative and Republican) instead of their abilities or experience. Nothing highlights this better than the first hand observation from Col. Hammes of whom he had to deal with in his efforts to reconstruct Iraq:

At the ministry of interior, there was a new staff person handling planning for the prisons and police.

Col. Thomas Hammes, Counterinsurgency Advisor for the CPA:

“But the plans counterpart who I had to work with in the Minister of Interior was a 25 year old; it’s his first job after college. So I ask him ‘That’s pretty interesting, how big a plan cell do you have?’ He says ‘I have four guys’, I say ‘That’s pretty small’. He says ‘Yah but we’re really tight because we’re frat brothers’. I never in my life thought I would encounter frat brothers and strategic planners in the same sentence.”

The person who was handling THE POLICE AND PRISONS immediately following the invasion of Iraq was a 25 year old frat boy who was handling it with his four frat brothers. I REPEAT, POLICE AND PRISONS IN IRAQ AFTER THE INVASION WAS HANDLED BY 5 FRAT GUYS. Sycophantic, inexperienced, and worst of all, inept: the hallmarks of the Bush administration and what America has endured for 6 years.

Do you think he gets to rape them if he wins?

Tyson serious about fighting women on ‘World Tour’

STRONGSVILLE, Ohio (AP) — Mike Tyson said fans should not expect much of a fight when he steps back into the ring.

But the 40-year-old former heavyweight champ promised an entertaining show Friday night when he launches the “Mike Tyson’s World Tour” in Youngstown.

At a news conference at an Italian restaurant, Tyson said he would likely go just four rounds and that future stops on the tour might include bouts with women, possibly professional boxer Ann Wolfe.

With more insights…

At the press conference, Tyson posed for photos with fans, signed autographs and campaigned for Maryland U.S. Senate candidate Michael Steele.

Tyson, wearing a white and blue Steele for U.S. Senate T-shirt, said he used to believe black Republicans were “sellouts.” But Tyson said he changed his mind after researching the Maryland lieutenant governor.

“We have to open our eyes more,” Tyson said, as he pointed to his T-shirt.

Insulted, but Appreciated

I received an email for Death Cab for Cutie presale tickets with the following description of DCFC (why would you mildly insult the band coming to your venue?), but regardless, consider your emo-self called out:

Death Cab For Cutie Presale
Death Cab for Cutie musically embodies the spirit of millions of smart-but-sensitive Zach Braffs and Seth Cohens out there. And while frontman Ben Gibbard has become the posterchild for a collegiate Everyman, we will try to refrain from describing DCFC’s latest single, “I Will Follow You Into The Dark” as “precious”. However, we will be counting Vespas vs. messenger bags at their shows this November. The first night is already sold out, so best make “Plans” to see their second D.C. date.

Ouch.