A Different War.

Ah, the culture wars. You just have to love it.

Logo is a new gay TV channel on Viacom basic cable that began on June 30th with sponsorship by companies like Miller Lite, Motorola, and Orbitz. Slate's article on it has the new network's president, Brian Graden, assuring us that the channel will "steer clear of highly sexualized content." In fact the article's author found only one slightly dirty moment when a travel show gave the name of an Amsterdam hotel designed specifically for gay men interested in bondage, then asked naughtily, "How do you say 'ouch' in Dutch?"

I mean come on....when your 8 yr old comes across this flipping channels he won't even know what bondage is. Why worry????

I also love how the article calls Concerned Women For America (a conservative women's organization) who is opposing the channel, "a group." I believe that CWA has 3 or 4 times the membership of NOW. I bet you haven't heard of them though, huh? Such is the media's notion that NOW is the only women's group in the country. I wonder if Slate would call NOW "a group?"

And speaking of women's groups. Did you hear about NARAL's party in Seattle, Washington yesterday? It was called "Screw Abstinence." Isn't that a such a cute lil play on words there???

The NARAL flier reads, “Come laugh, learn, socialize and buck the system.” Partygoers will be treated to "tips on “Sexy Safer Sex” by “purveyors of adult toys,” see a theatre troupe perform a sex-ed class for adults, and sip on “Screw Driver” alcoholic beverages."

A new commenter from Stop the ACLU says that "...Reason writer Charles Oliver was taken aback when he learned from John Powell, the Union’s national legal director, that he considered abortion to be the ACLU’s number one priority; the defense of the First Amendment, the alleged heart and soul of the ACLU’s mission, was listed third, after civil rights." (emphasis mine)


If this is a war, we are losing my friends. Republicans in power or not.