While everyone in the world is making plans to kill everyone else in the world, the voters of Zurich in Switzerland have decided that lesbian and gay couples can now have equal benefits to straight married couples.
… And that's a good thing. The only drawback is that you actually have to live in Switzerland to get these benefits. Have you been there? It's like a graveyard with lights. "Oh what can we do to entertain ourselves today, darling?"
"Well, we could attach two pieces of wood to our feet and slide down a mountain, or, just for a change, we could attach two pieces of wood to our feet and slide down a mountain."
Name me one successful Swiss movie, one Swiss author … OK, you get my point. However, I do have to say, it's amazing that a country famous for cheese and cuckoo clocks is ahead of the U.S. in basic human rights.
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WHO DOES SHE THINK SHE IS!!
If I cared two shits about the Catholic church I'd offer up this advice to them. "Shut up and let the scandal blow over."
But no! We continue to get these big nellies parading around in gowns and pearls and mouthing off. The latest is Monsignor Andrew R. Baker writing in the Jesuit journal America.
In her article she claims that "First and foremost among them is the possible simultaneous manifestation of other serious problems such as substance abuse, sexual addiction and depression."
Miss Baker also writes that a vow of celibacy by a homosexual man is "superfluous" because it is a promise to abstain from homosexual acts that are already sinful and must be abstained from.
HELLO!! You are a member of a notorious worldwide network of child-molesters. SHUT THE FUCK UP!!
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Nothing pisses me off more than reading an obituary of a genius that I'd never heard about before. Doris Wishman passed away Aug. 10 in Miami. Even worse in this case...and I could kick myself...I was aware of her work but assumed she died years ago. I would have killed to interview this woman.
Wishman was the low-budget filmmaker who gave us such gems as Hideout in the Sun ( 1960 ) , possibly the first nudist camp movie, and the classic Bad Girls Go To Hell.
She went on to make movies for the next 30 years, rising in the '60s with the new interest in the "sexploitation" market. Just the titles alone are worth an Oscar: Another Day, Another Man, My Brother's Wife, and Let Me Die a Woman; the latter a documentary about the medical aspects of transsexuality.
… and not forgetting the hardcore Chesty Morgan, a spy thriller about a chick with hooters for days.
Wishman never managed to cross over into the mainstream and there lies her genius; her inability to understand what mainstream America wanted to watch.
Her last films were Satan Was a Lady ( 2000 ) , Dildo Heaven ( 2001 ) , and the partially completed Each Time I Kill.
Thanks to author Pam Keesey for sending me the obituary.
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Just what the world needs, another murderer coming out of the closet, albeit posthumously. In manuscripts to be published soon, the Birdman of Alcatraz talks about his life as a gay man.
… if it reads anything like the TV show OZ I might have to buy a copy.
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When I moved to the States I left Britain behind; I mean, I REALLY left if behind. My parting shot was "Phone me when Margaret Thatcher is dead, so I can drink a toast." I know some of you are Thatcher fans, but you weren't living there. I could never understand why a rich, powerful Nazi like her was incapable of purchasing a decent purse. And the clothes … can I go wild and use the word DRAB here?
So I left British politics behind, but sadly with the "War on Terror," I'm now forced to listen to the inane mouth-crappings of that little weasel Tony Blair.
If you haven't read this column before, let me fill you in … I hate all politicians. That's not to say I don't believe in democracy, I do. I urge everyone out there to vote. No, seriously. I believe that there are certain individuals in the world...for arguments sake let's call them idiots...who truly think they know what's best for the rest of us. So we vote these "idiots" into power and then we make fun of them.
I have many objections to politicians, but the main problem I have with them is that they all look boring. Take Condoleeza Rice ( I know, her name sounds like a dish on the menu in a Pakistani restaurant ) … now …
… apart from being the misguided warmongering puppet of George Bush … the hair has to go. It looks like a camel dumped on her head and everyone is scared to tell her it happened. So let's dip into Tina Turner's Wig closet for that. Leather boots up to the thighs, a single black crinoline, bustier, with pierced nipples peeking over the top. Plus, a belt with a buckle that reads: Scud Stud. Now, I could follow that babe into battle any day. Of course, our local State Rep. Larry McKeon would look hot in the same outfit. Really hot!!
