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I didn’t think I would have a Carlos story this week. I mean, not because Carlos doesn’t do The Crazy or doesn’t make me laugh, but because sometimes I forget it as I sit down to write this post. But, just now, sitting at the computer,. Commenting on blogs, Carlos comes into the office. We chat a little, and then he walks to the desk to pick up his iPad which is next to me. His fingers graze my arm, and he says:

“Oh, you have a little company there.”

“Who?”

“Isn’t this Max?” His fingers travel up and down my arm.

“That’s not a cat, that’s your husband."

Yes, he thought my arm, which is not at all a hairy arm, was a fur covered cat. Oy.

Forget the idea of explaining to a cat, try explaining that to children who are now terrified of going to school.

During a radio appearance last week, The Kenosha Murderer did his best impression of a high school athlete announcing his college choice on National Signing Day by pulling a Texas A&M hat from under a table, putting on his head, and saying:

“I’m going to be going there, and it’s going to be awesome.”

Odd then that a university official released a statement that The Kenosha Murder isn’t attending Texas A&M:

“He has not been admitted as a student this summer or fall.”

To be fair, he’s a murderer so it isn’t much of a stretch for him to be a fucking liar, too.

Pope Francis added fuel to rumors about his future as Pope by announcing he would visit L’Aquila for a feast initiated by Pope Celestine V, one of the few pontiffs who resigned before Pope Benedict XVI stepped down in 2013. Italian and Catholic media have been speculating that Frankie might be retiring, given his increased mobility problems that have forced him to use a wheelchair recently.

Now, work with me here because I have a theory. You see, Queen Elizabeth just had her Platinum Jubilee, and there are rumors that she might step down, given that she is in her last nineties. And she is newly widowed so … maybe it’s true that Betty Windsor and Frankie Pope are a “thing”? I mean, c’mon, they both love fancy robes and jewel-encrusted headwear and pomp and circumstance; Grindr couldn’t make a better match..

And what’s their celebrity name? Peen? Quope? Fretty? Bankie?

In Republicans Are Pigs News … in Tennessee, mere minutes after a vigil for the victims of the mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde, the state’s GOP asshat of a governor, Bill Lee, had the memorial deconstructed and removed from the building.

According to video from local news organization The Tennessee Holler, all the flowers, cards, a teddy bear, and even a letter to the governor signed by dozens of clergy, appeared headed for the garbage.

Not a real surprise Lee is a pig; last year he signed legislation allowing almost any adult to carry a firearm without a permit/license, training, or insurance.

Fuck Bill Lee and the GOP and Tennessee.

Last week, we went to a Memorial Day gathering at our friends, the Round-The-Way-Gays, Neal and David, who have recently moved back to Camden. We saw a bunch of old friends we hadn’t seen since the pandemic started and had a lovely afternoon of food and drinks and laughs.

As we were eating David, the perfect host and bartender, asked if I wanted another margarita. I replied:

“Oh, one is my limit.”

“But this will be your fourth!”

"I didn’t say I adhered to it.”

And the fourth was the best one ever.

Antonio Sherrodd McGarity of Arlington, Texas, pleaded guilty last week to Lewd, Indecent, or Obscene Acts While on an Aircraft and was sentenced to 48 days in prison, followed by one year of probation. He is also prohibited from flying commercially in the United States while on probation.

What did he do? Well, during a Southwest Airlines flight from Seattle to Phoenix, McGarity exposed himself to other passengers while masturbating several times.

Wow, and that’s just a 3-hour flight. Imagine how many times he could have choked his chicken if he was headed to Australia?

Fox News will be the only major news network not to air the entire January 6 Committee hearings live probably because some of their most vile on-air talent is complicit in the attempt to overthrow the government.

Plus, Fox News can’t handle the truth.

The other day Debra had a post on She Who Seeks  about companies that profess their support of the LGBTQ+ community only during Pride month, but what about the ones who think their showing Pride when they’re just showing ridiuclousness? Amirite Burger King?

To be fair, amirite Burger King Austria? This week the fast-food company unveiled its new Pride Whopper, which features “same-sex” buns and asks that age old question: are you a top or are you a bottom?

“We stand for the equal rights of all identities and sexual orientations. A little twist to put a smile on your face and remind us to treat each other respectfully and peacefully. No matter who you are and who you love.”

Is it really “respectful” to make your Pride burger something that could be interpreted as being a sexual joke about “tops” and “bottoms”? And then think about those conservative wingnut parents trying to explain to their kids why mommy’s a top and daddy’s a bottom.

This is the most ridiculous attempt at pretending to have LGBTQ+ Pride as I have ever seen.

In the wake of all the mass shootings in the United States of Guns a new poll conducted by CBS News and YouGov surveyed Americans about their thoughts on guns and gun control, asking respondents if they felt that mass shootings are an unavoidable by-product of a “free society” or if they believed the issue could be tackled.

Forty-four percent of all respondents who identified as Republicans believe mass shootings are “unfortunately something we have to accept as part of a free society.”

I wonder if any of these illiterate fuckmonkeys will feel the same when their little Billy or Julie gets slaughtered in the schoolyard.

Lucien Laviscount is a thirty-year-old is a British actor with a rockin’ bod and a delightful. That’s all you get … Would You Hit It?