madame zenobia's

As the Foley camp attempts to salvage what little bit of the man’s political career remains, I can’t help but chuckle at the lunacy of it all. Do these people really think that we’re buying this mess? First, he was checked into a rehab center for his alcoholism. Then, he was battling depression. Come to find out he was molested as a child. And I’m not claiming that he isn’t an alcoholic or doesn’t suffer from depression or is not the victim of molestation. While I do delight in the difficulties that the GOP is facing as national and local elections approach, I’m not so cruel that I would wish misery on anyone. I was raised better than that. And it seems to me that any time you build your political platform on moral values and assert yourself as the nation’s moral center, you’re asking for it. In other words, don’t act like your shit don’t stink. Now, the hinges on Foley’s closet door squeak as revelations about cover-ups are coming to light. Apparently, it wasn’t a secret that Foley is gay, and several of his gay staffers worked hard at concealing this. I guess they know better than most how to make “don’t ask, don’t tell” work. In the clubs where the dancing queens reign, the pretty boys sparkle under the lights of the disco ball, and the butches beguile, we say: “Tell some, keep some, baby.” Not in Foley's case, though. We should tell it all so that those congressional pages are safe.

quote of the day

Conversations with James Baldwin
James Baldwin
"The sexual question and the racial question have always been entwined, you know. If Americans can mature on the level of racism, then they have to mature on the level of sexuality."