Liberal bloggers watch Obama closely, want action

(Pittsburgh) They wish he’d done more in his first eight months, but the liberal bloggers who helped propel Barack Obama to the White House are far from giving up on him.

Gathered in Pittsburgh for the annual Netroots Nation convention, they say they’re not disappointed. At least not too disappointed. Yet.

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How Gay Are Philly Athletes?

A few months ago, tired of waiting for professional sports’ thousands of homosexuals to come tumbling out of the closet, I issued a challenge. I stated that from now on, in order to relieve the pressure on closeted gay players, we the media would automatically assume that all pro–players are gay — unless they clearly and unequivocally come out as heterosexual.

Well guess what? In the intervening eight months not one single member of Philadelphia’s major league sporting franchises has come out as a breeder. Wow. Just wow. They say silence can speak volumes but this silence will thunder down the sporting ages.

By their refusal to define themselves as heterosexual, the Eagles, the Phillies and the Sixers have all effectively stood up and roared: “Hell yeah, we’re gay, what of it?”

It warms the cockles of your heart. But it also begs the much bigger question: Is there really any such thing as an American male heterosexual?

We have a saying in England that the difference between a heterosexual and a homosexual is about two pints. And it’s certainly true that on both sides of the Atlantic I have met tens of thousands of men who self–define as heterosexual, but probably not a single one who hasn’t had some sort of sex with another man. Or wanted to.

The biggest homophobe I ever met—a chap who told me he was sick to the point of nausea after he heard me state that all males are essentially pansexual—shortly afterwards went on holiday to Bangkok. There he became enamoured of a beautiful woman. He took her back to his beach hut where he discovered (oh but of course) that the lady was a dude. So he flipped his lover over and had anal sex. And (this is the important bit) no way, apparently, did this make him gay.

Then there’s my fave magazine cover ever. No Bull is a very heterosexual steroids’n'all hard–core bodybuilding magazine that, shortly after 9–11, ran a cover showing the magazine’s bull–headed and incredibly well muscled mascot, Bully, anally raping Osama Bin Laden. But (just in case you assumed this cover was in any way gay) the text across the bottom read: “Not for sale to anybody under the age of 18 years, or anybody who thinks that if they give it they have to take it BACK.”
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