Tonight’s Tom Ashbrook on a local public channel topic was the primaries in light of race and class. The discussion turned around Obama vs Clinton with respect to race and the lower class. First, guys wake up, race is not black and white only. We have more brown than black now. Second, guys there is the issue of sex also and it is not less important than the other two mentioned issues.

Ms. Newman from the LAT demonstrated again that most journalist are born without an intellect. According to her: Clinton “brings” the white lower class. If she is right, the Obama won California, New Jersey, Massachusetts, etc. She did however mention women, but accordingly they became an issue only the last month.  Read more 

Yet another reason the anti-sex Christianist enclaves in the Red States are so—forgive the expression—fucked up. A new identical twins study at the University of Virginia:

The researchers analyzed data on 534 same-sex twin pairs in the United States gathered at three time points over a seven-year period. By examining surveys of twins, the investigators were able to eliminate the genetic and socio-economic variables that otherwise might influence the behaviors of adolescents.

“We got a very surprising finding, particularly that early sex seems to forecast less antisocial behavior a few years later, rather than more,” said Kathryn Paige Harden, the study’s lead author and a Ph.D. candidate in clinical psychology at the University of Virginia.

Well, I always knew sex was good for something!  Read more 

Via Andrew Sullivan, Jeanette Maier, whose small business Senator David Vitter (R-Canal Street Brothel) patronized, tells her story:

Some of the fantasies at the Canal Street Brothel got a little rough. For those who liked that kind of stuff, there were whips, chains and a lot of leather. Jeanette says that most of the clients who wanted to be dominated were Republicans. She cracks a smile, then adds, “They wanted to be spanked and tortured and wear stockings—Republicans have impeccable taste in silk stockings—and these are the people who run our country.”

(As an aside, that means that the Republicans must be terribly frustrated by the Democrats’ overly-gentle approach, because they’re not getting what they really, really want, even though they can’t admit it to themselves. Maybe Dean Broder should recommend that Harry Reid shackle Mitch McConnell right there on the Senate Floor, then call for a closed session and, er, undertake a series of tricky procedural moves…)

Now, I really don’t care what these guys do, although the base—assuming that the base isn’t, en masse, chaining itself up and applying the lash, just like you saw in The Passion… Oh, wait. Let’s just not go there. Reboot.

I don’t really care what kind of pain-, humiliation-, and torture-filled dramas the Republicans enact in the privacy of their own bedrooms, and I’d sure like it if they left me alone to do what I want to do in mine. And the Jeannette Maiers and Deborah Palreys of this world work a lot less evil than, say, Lynne Cheney, let alone Shooter.

So, yawn? Not exactly. The problems come when Republicans confuse abuse, torture, and sex as fantasies in private with abuse, torture and sex out—as they say—in the public square.

Because then the public square starts looking like this:  Read more 

We really need a Department of Couldn’t Happen to a Nicer Guy. When David Vitter was in the US House he had a Clenis obsession like no other. Turns out his own little soldier had a bad habit of going out on unauthorized foraging missions:

Sen. David Vitter, R-La., apologized Monday night for “a very serious sin in my past” after his telephone number appeared among those associated with an escort service operated by the so-called “D.C. Madam.”

Haven’t seen anybody else catch this particular angle, but Prince Namor did right away: Vitter is a Republican Senator now. From Louisiana. Whose governor is a Democrat. And I don’t think LA has one of those nitwitted laws like Wyoming does requiring the governor to replace a resigned-in-disgrace senator with one from the same lowlife dirty-sex-obsessed, gay-hating, God- and wife-forgiven so often politcal party.

Heh.

UPDATE: I forgot to mention the funnest part of all: Vitter is (as of this writing; it may not be the case by the time you read this) Southern Regional Chairman of Guiliani for Preznit. Can we start to see a trend in the sort of personnel manager Julie Annie is likely to be? If Bernie Kerik wasn’t enough of a clue?

Now with FRESHER, NEWER UPDATE! From Greenwald:

A Treen supporter, local Republican Party official Vincent Bruno, blurted out on a radio show that he believed Vitter had once had an extramarital affair.

The Louisiana Weekly newspaper followed up. Bruno told the paper that the young woman had contacted the Treen campaign in 1999 because she was upset that Vitter was portraying himself as a family-values conservative and trotting out his wife and children for campaign photo ops. Bruno, who declined to comment for this story, and John Treen interviewed the woman, who said she had worked under the name “Leah.”

But after nearly a year of regular paid assignations with Vitter, the lawmaker asked her to divulge her real name, according to Treen, citing the account he said she gave him. Her name was Wendy Cortez, Treen said. She said Vitter’s response was electric. “He said, ’Oh, my God! I can’t see you anymore,” John Treen told me, citing the woman’s account to him and noting that Vitter’s wife is also named Wendy.

I’m developing a case of “heh” fever over this story. :) Now back to your earlier edition:

My first thought on the other hand was that those bastards at ABC News—who famously and piously said that “they hadn’t found any important names” on the Madam’s phone lists  Read more 

Now that I have your attention, think about this from Time via Kevin Drum:  Read more 

So I’m playing catchup after a busy week, and there’s plenty of sex program-related reading to enjoy.  Read more 

Via our good pal, and creator of the term 'blogtopia,' The Manly Marsupial Skippy of the Forrest, we discover this exciting blog and a project that seems to be getting a lot of attention. Attention Democratic operatives with the good sense to study history and learn from it: a lot of us out here will do this kind of work for you, for free. I too am sick and tired of bringing squirt guns to a knife fight:

Sometimes you've just had enough. I've hit that point.  Read more 

A while back I wrote this funloving post while in a rare upbeat mood, and last night I spent some time with the Capitol Hill Drinking Liberally gang, and listened to John Hliko, founder of Act For Love and also the infamous DraftWesleyClark.com, and Stempac, the stem cell research advocacy blog. John and I agreed that it’s a simple idea: Democrats need to keep reminding people that we are the party of fun. And good sex, food, booze, comedians, and everything else that makes the burden of life lessened.  Read more 

(Consider this post innoculation against charges that I’ve forgotten my unserious, naughty blogging roots)

I read stories like this with some frequency, and I can’t find it now but recently I read a blog post about American males and decreasing levels of testosterone. I just finished clearing out our comments inbox, and I suppose it won’t surprise you to know that easily half of them were spambot posts selling Viagra.  Read more 

I’m on the road this week, forgive the light posting. But just to inflame some readers: what do you think? Are women smarter than men? Would you hate me if I said, “yes” most of the time? In all seriousness, I’ve never seen a poll unlike this one. For some reason, women seem to dislike war and pillage more than men. Why is that?

70 percent of women and 58 percent of men now oppose the war in Iraq.

That’s outside the moe. Tell me why you think this should be.

I’m pretty open about myself on the Internets, but i also like to think I apply a modicum of common sense to what I do, and do not say to people. I’m with a lot of the commenters at Waxy, I wouldn’t be surprised at all if someone died over this, starting with the “artist.” But it’s a good reminder for everyone to be, you know, sensible while surfing the Tubes.

On Monday, a Seattle web developer named Jason Fortuny started his own Craigslist experiment. The goal: “Posing as a submissive woman looking for an aggressive dom, how many responses can we get in 24 hours?”  Read more 

I found this interesting. I don’t have an opinion about the validity, but for what it’s worth she doesn’t sound like a winger.

“Women have an eight-lane superhighway for processing emotion, while men have a small country road,” she writes. Men, however, “have O’Hare Airport as a hub for processing thoughts about sex, where women have the airfield nearby that lands small and private planes.”  Read more 

Rush Limbaugh, pictured after being detained at Palm Beach International airport for possession of prescription drugs.  Read more