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Bass Bandits

My feelings about discussion forums like Is He/She Gay? are mixed, but I'm glad I found it just so I could read this:

LANCE BASS is NOT GAY! Stop saying he is. Lance would never be that GROSS. He says in enter views ALLL the time that hes VERY religus. SO STOP SAYING HES GAY! My dad done told me all about GAY people and they go to HELL. Lance wouldnt ever do anything against God. In an enter view he was asked about being a virgin and he said he was a COMPLET GENTLE MAN. He could not be GAY when hes a VIRGIN! LEAVE HIM ALONE!!! My preacher said GAY people grow up and mo lest other people. LANCE WOULD NEVER EVER DO THAT! Hes not like you guys! Stop telling people he is! It makes me cry when people say mean things about him that arent true. If he saw things you say about him on here he would probibly cry to. Now leave him alone and STOP MO LESTING other people. Gods going to punish all of you!

So cries "makaila." Poor Lance Bass. How dare people say such things about a defenseless (and, lately, career-less) boy-band member. Why, you can almost hear little makaila soaking her Tiger Beat with her tears.

Her little rant gets piled on as you'd expect and she deserves. (Though I've got to admit, "mo lest" is kind of a clever coinage.) But dry your ignorant little eyes, makaila, because you're right about one thing. God is punishing us. With morons like you and your dad and your preacher.

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On a more happily evil note, if you haven't seen this oft-linked collection, do: Worst Album Covers Ever. (Link via Metafilter and others)

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Putting a Nice Face on It

I know I said I would be OK with the outcome of today's mayoral election, but now that it has ended the way I expected, I'm a little bugged. I can't help but be a little disturbed by one inescapable fact: the prettiest candidates won.

People, can we not stop treating our key elections as if we were voting for student-body president?

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Hour of Power (Not Cower)

Another month, another election. But this one won't crush my soul.

This one's for San Francisco mayor. As in most other elections, my pick probably won't win. But unlike most other elections, the outcome is not worrisome. Any of the five leading candidates can do more good than harm. Instead of clinging to one questionable candidate because he is far less horrifying than the other, I had five choices from which I actually had to decide who was best, and the choice was tough. And it may be tough again next month, when a runoff of the top two vote-getters is likely. It's all refreshingly heartening.

But then there are the propositions. As usual in referendum-mad California, there are about a dozen complex questions to which we the voters are to say yea or nay. And most of them are so convoluted and so narrow in impact (taxi permit rules; ethics-law consolidation; city audit enforcement) that I don't see how voters are expected to make informed decisions. They're the kinds of questions that are exactly what we hire governments to deal with. But apparently, the San Francisco "charter" is so intricate that doing anything requires changing it, which requires voting.

Then on top of the charter questions are ordinances submitted by supervisors or petitioners, which introduce a new level of uselessness. Even if an ordinance is approved by voters, the city isn't require to fund whatever was approved, so it doesn't have to happen. You can guess how I'm voting on those.

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More Than We Needed to Know

Actual press-release headline:

Democratic Candidates Still Tightly Bunched According to National Harris Poll

Man, there's a survey I wouldn't want to have to take.

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