How dare you impugn my patriotism! My soul is a red as the waxy coat on a delicious New York Gouda, as white as a beautiful Vermont Cheddar, and as blue as an artisanal blue cheese from Wisconsin.

That said, there are some people with whom I won't do business. I suppose it's different when your company is "owned" by soulless computers doing stock trades in increments of minutes.

Out singer Matt Zarley's new video "Had I Known"

Bill O'Reilly comments on the ad (via The Advocate)

No big fan of O'Reilly but I don't think he was comparing gays to al Qaeda. I think it was a very specific play on the comment immediately prior that the ad was part of a larger campaign showing all kinds of people going to McDonald's with the tagline "come as you are" and him riffing on whether they really want everybody to go to McDonald's and express who they are.

What I find odd is his absolute certainty that no ad like this would ever run in the U.S. I assume he means because it is gay-themed. If he's right, I hope it is because it is just a stupid ad (regardless of the gay theme).

I agree that, for once, O'Reilly wasn't gaybashing with his al Qaeda remark. He most definitely was, however, saying the ad would never play in the U.S. because of its gay theme. In that, he was gaybashing. And I'm sure he would, despite his purported business-freedom-uber-alis philosophy, bash McDonald's if it ever deemed it salesworthy to run such a gay-themed ad in these here united states.

I'm not getting the overall positiveness of the ad. Is the father affirming in an understated way that he knows his son is gay and is encouraging him to tom around?

As for O'Reilly, he may not directly be comparing gays to al Qaeda, but it seems like these things don't get taken to such extremes except when gay or other minority issues are being promoted.

Would a mod be kind enough to put a "]" before "Bill" on post 424 please? The edit window has passed and I can't fix it myself.

So... I turned on the TV this afternoon, and guess what came on?


The Women!!!

I came in right when Mary "yanked the scalp off that Allen woman in the fitting room". :D

I have another gay attorney working at my office and he still hasn't been on the train to Reno. I must let him borrow my DVD.