How do you feel about the successful protest of Rush Limbaugh’s attempt to buy a minority stake in the St. Louis Rams?

In general, I am reluctant to deny opportunity to individuals based on their political beliefs. After all, dissenting opinions and rigorous debate are central to sustaining rich public conversation. In the case of Limbaugh, however, this is not about free speech. This is about a private organization, the NFL, deciding that a prospective owner is bad for business. Because of his inflammatory comments as a political pundit, as well as specific remarks about African-American football players, Limbaugh would be the object of perennial scrutiny, protest and boycotting, none of which are good for the collective profit-making that drives NFL owners.

Yesterday’s polls suggest that, for the first time, a majority of Americans disagree with President Obama’s politics. What happened?

Three things. First, Obama is a victim of an economic crisis that makes it hard for any president’s policies to be popular. Second, he allowed Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, two of America’s most divisive figures, to be responsible for a foreseeably controversial health care bill. Finally, the Republicans have developed a simple but effective strategy of blocking every effort Obama makes without offering any real solutions themselves. As a result, Obama, like Reagan, is becoming a wildly popular president with very unpopular policies. Not to worry though, a successful health care bill, and good news in Afghanistan, could turn those numbers around quickly.

Who will win the World Series?

The Yankees have the best team in baseball, but I’m going to pick my hometown Philadelphia Phillies in six games. To quote Rudy Tomjanovich, “Never underestimate the heart of a champion.”

Today’s video of the day comes from the incomparable John Coltrane. In this clip, he’s playing “Naima” live.

Without certain hormones, flies get freak nasty. Turns out fruit flies are sluts.

Judge asks lawyers behind gay marriage ban how, exactly, heterosexuals are hurt by gay marriage.

Interracial couple denied marriage license on the basis their potential kids might not be accepted anywhere.

Future women will be shorter, plumper, more fertile. Kind of, like, the opposite of what I want to be.

If you live in Pennsylvania, you might be eligible for reduced cost family planning services.

Photos of a woman’s healthy cervix for an entire month. Thanks to Erica for the link!

86 year old vet asked what he thinks about gay marriage- responds “what do you think I fought for on Omaha Beach?”

5 women given HIV by the same man

Hope for victims of genital mutilation.

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Math Skills Show Little Growth

Testing of American fourth- and eighth-graders shows that only four out of 10 are proficient in mathematics, a figure that has not improved since 2007. What do you think?

Ann Gaddis,
Fan-Blade Aligner
“Oh, no. All of our high-paying jobs differentiating between parallelograms and rhombuses are sure to go to the Chinese.”

Patrick Fanning,
Galvanizer
“Well, duh. Everyone knows history is where it’s at.”

Steve Weid,
Systems Analyst
“Oh hell, when is the real world ever going to have any use for today’s American kids anyway?”

Question to the Sexpert:

“My roommate is hooked on the damn Twilight series and won’t shut the fuck up about Edward Cullen. She has a legitimate, full-on crush on this fictional character. She talks constantly about vampires and how much she wants to have sex with one. And several of her friends are in agreement. They are all now obsessed with how sexy vampires are because of these books and all the movies out right now. What is wrong with them?”

There are a few ways I can answer this: the Freudian-Jungian route, the film class snob route and the route where I copy the straight-to-the-gut response written in the comments of an online article on why the Twilight books are so bloody sexless.

ClicheLaMoron writes:

“The book is TOTAL porn. But, not the scary kind with dicks. The kind that’s PERFECT for teenage girls, which is all about getting off on the pain of loving someone so hard and not being able to have him. Which is a sexual feeling, even though that makes no sense to dudes. But in reality, you cannot have your idol because you are hideous and unpopular, not because HE LOVES YOU TOO MUCH TO EVER ENDANGER YOU WITH HIS LOOOOOOOVE, but the good/bad feeling is much the same.”

For those of you who have, through either luck or sheer force of will, managed to escape the cultural phenomenon that is the Twilight series of books and movies about vampires written by terrible Mormon writer Stephanie Meyer, let me bring you up to speed. The main character, a whiny uninteresting pretty girl named Bella, meets and falls in love with a vampire named Edward Cullen who is maddeningly attracted to her and must use every ounce of strength not to drink her blood… because he is a pansy ass “vegetarian” vampire who only eats animals. They are in love, they don’t have sex. And now you know everything you need to know.

And ClicheLaMoron has a point. With apologies to my good friends who love these books, they are fantasy for girls who haven’t found themselves getting what they want in the romance department… which is most women, really. The tale is of a girl who moves to a new town and is instantly desired by the sexiest creature ever. It’s appealing to girls who stare longingly across a classroom day in and day out at a boy who fails to see what an amazing, wonderful, beautiful princess she is. These are young adult fiction with a target demographic that has more orthodontic appointments than real life sexual partners.

But I don’t want to sound like this new crop of vampire fans are wrong or bad, they are the latest in a long line of people entranced by the sexiness of vampires. Even though Bram Stoker’s Dracula was a creepy, monstrous creature (a far cry from the gay rave that is Robert Pattison’s chiseled torso), he was an incredible sexually appealing character.

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