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How to address a bitter, war-torn but still somehow giddy and deeply horny nation. My fellow Americans, we're not as royally screwed as everything Bush has done during his miserable term in office would have you believe.

Book Claims Sex Abuse Not Harmfulby Steve Jordahl Once again an attempt is made to promote the shocking theory that pedophilia is good. An old heresy is surfacing again. Sexual contact between adults and children is normal, even beneficial to children and can serve as a useful tool in the mentoring process. In a new book about the role of homosexuality in ancient Greece and Rome, Temple University Professor Bruce Rind claims sex between adults and children can be beneficial. Therapist Joe Nicolosi has seen the "benefits" in dozens of victims."It lowers self-esteem, it lowers trust, it creates profound...

It's somewhere around 1977 and I'm about 10 years old and I'm up past 10 pm watching juicy riveting prime-time "Magnum, P.I." (or whatever), and of course right at that moment I want nothing more from the universe than to stay up another hour and watch even more TV so as to feel, you know, older, and wiser, and somehow cooler. And right about then my mother walks in and says hey kiddo, time for bed, and I plead and whine and protest and say no no no please please please why why why, and she says, slightly exasperated and...

Harry Potter ... the new gay icon? Wizard books tell a coming-out story of secret desires and discovering a separate culture, argues US literary critic By Liam McDougall, Arts Correspondent HARRY Potter, the boy from 4 Privet Lane who finds that he has magical powers, might just have another reason for feeling a little misunderstood by 'normal' society. The young wizard may, in fact, be gay. According to controversial gay US commentator Michael Bronski, the plot of JK Rowling's books follows an identical path to that of the traditional coming-out story. Not only have Harry's differences made him an...

<p>Is your god telling you, like it tells G.W. Bush every night, that your unwanted unprovoked ultraviolent war against a nearly defenseless nation is not only justified and righteous, but is His deepest wish?</p> <p>And does your religion tell you, like it tells so many of the Christian Right, that homosexuals are a dire threat to humankind and should be stopped at all costs before the so-called gay agenda sneaks into the playground and the drinking water and the "Spongebob" scripts and starts covertly converting our blessed innocent hetero children to a life of sin?</p>