Single What? Female...

Oh yeah, the politics are back...

The New York Post proved to me why I don't look at it very often. They published a cartoon which most likely was meant to merely be a play on the random chimp attack that occurred in Connecticut, and the "monkeys" in Congress. Instead, what people saw was a cartoon with two white cops having shot a monkey and remarking "Now someone else will have to write the stimulus package". Anyone who knows their black history knows that black people were compared to monkeys...and that we now have our first black president...and that he is the face of the stimulus package.

How the editors could not know that such a connection might be made - "post-racial" era, whatever - is just beyond me. It is the post and they could a) have decided to run with the controversy and hell, people are looking that cartoon up and b) be targeting that fringe audience of people who are angry that Obama got the top job or c) just be idiots. Personally, I think it is all of the above. Feel free to give them your opinion through the Color of Change.

And speaking of idiots...what the heck is up with Utah? I know some perfectly nice and tolerant Mormons, but sadly they have not been elected to political office, as has Senator Chris Buttars. The one good thing about Senator Buttars is that he actually spoke (spewed) his anti-gay views - gay people have no morals and are "the meanest buggers he's ever seen" - to a documentary film maker, thus we can call him out on such virulent remarks. He actually believes that homosexuals are the biggest threat to America "going down" that he knows of. Really? GAY PEOPLE? Not corrupt investment bankers? Not extreme deregulation and those who have taken advantage of it? Not biggoted buggers like yourself? I mean, even over the terrorists...GAY PEOPLE?!?! This man needs some serious help and perhaps a hug, if he believes gay folk are the biggest threat to the country. He obviously has not had enough love in his life, or ever enjoyed a good musical...or really considered that staffer who baked him a basket of muffins for his birthday. So what is he going to say when suddenly photos show up with him in drag at Rawhide during the Republican convention...In the meantime, you can say your piece, and offer a good therapist for him to get over this fear of "the gays" here at the Human Rights Campaign.

IN THE MEANTIME... It's time for SHAMELESS PLUGGING! Last night we had performance deux of In The Red Room. We had a great crowd and I'll tell ya, when you are working in an intimate space, good energy from the audience helps A LOT and boy howdy did we have it last night. I think we all kicked it up a notch and found our groove. It was a good night and if you want to catch this unique performance yourself, come on out to People Lounge for our final performance next Thursday 2/26.

Also TONIGHT I will testing out new material for Single What? Female at long last over at the 15th birthday of the No Name variety show. We will be at Otto's Shrunken Head and it will indeed be a good time. But get there early as the show starts at 7pm SHARP!

KEEP PAYING ATTENTION!

Peace --Alex

posted by funkweee @ 9:33 AM