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As I said earlier in the week, last Friday Carlos and I had an appointment with the tax accountant to get our taxes done. Carlos said the appointment was at 9AM … and you know where this is going.

I took the morning off—well, I took the whole day because …—and we had breakfast, took showers, got our papers ready. At 8:45 I yell…

‘LET’S GO!!!’

Carlos comes down the hall and grabs his things and off we go. The accountant’s office is here in town so it’s a quick drive, and when we pull up, I notice the ‘Open’ sign is off.

“I guess she doesn’t open until 9?”

“I think so, but our appointment is at 9:30.”

“9:30? You told me 9AM!”

“I’m pretty sure I told you 9:30.”

Here we go into that usual argument where I remind Carlos that I have a better memory and don’t forget dates and times and such. Finally, I say:

“Why, if I knew the appointment was at 9:30, would I hurry you out of the house at 8:45?”

“I figured you wanted to spend some quality time with me. A little romantic moment—”

“In the parking lot of a tax accountant at 8:45AM? You need to work on your game.”

Worse yet was he suggested we go to the gas station on the corner for coffee while we wait.

Gas.Station.Coffee? I could never!

The Elton John biopic Rocketman starring Taron Egerton, Richard Madden, and Jamie Bell is getting a lot of buzz, but the word I’m worried about is that Paramount is pressuring filmmakers to cut a very gay, very nude sex scene from the film so it will get a PG-13 rating.

Seriously? A film about Elton John and you’re gonna cut a nude same-sex love scene? And a nude love scene between Taron Egerton and Richard Madden?

I.Will.Not.Have.It.

Earlier this week we talked Chick-fil-A and their continuing anti-LGBTQ donations. Well, at least one place is taking a stand.

The San Antonio City Council, on a 6-4 vote, removed a planned Chick-fil-A location from an airport concession agreement after a councilman flagged the company’s anti-LGBTQ activity.

Good. Bye.

Proving he’s one of the biggest idiots in the GOP, Kentucky Governor, and anti-vaxxer, Matt Bevin decided to prove he’s also unfit to be a parent when he revealed that he forced all nine of his children to purposely contract chickenpox.

“Every single one of my kids had the chickenpox … They got [it] on purpose because we found a neighbor that had it and I went and made sure every one of my kids was exposed to it, and they got it. They had it as children. They were miserable for a few days, and they all turned out fine.”

Medical experts were quick to point out how stupid this is because purposely exposing children to chickenpox can lead to pneumonia, cause secondary skin infections, encephalitis, and death.

But, hey, Bevins saved a few coins on vaccinations so what’s the issue, right?

How to Get Away with Murder actor Jack Falahee recently showed off a new tattoo on Instagram. Lotsa people wondered what it meant, including Falahee’s mother, who asked the significance, leading him to reply:

“[It’s] how many people I’ve murdered.”

His mother responded:

“Oh [How to Get Away with Murder]?”

“No, just in general.”

Falahee has the same warped sense of humor that I have, and I love it.

And he's kinda hot.

This week Betsy Devos, Secretary of Education said:

“Make no mistake: we are focused every day on raising expectations and improving outcomes for infants and toddlers, children and youth with disabilities, and are committed to confronting and addressing anything that stands in the way of their success.”

Then she cut $17.6 million in federal funding for the Special Olympics.

Fuck Betsy Devos.

Apparently one does not kiss the Pope’s ring any more, though his ass may be another story.

But I digress … during a recent mass at Holy House of Loreto in Italy, Pope Frankie Says Relax specifically asked the public not to kiss his ring and no one listened, so he whipped his rung hand away from all who came close and bent down to kiss it.

He didn’t let anyone taste it, not even the tip, and gave no reason why.

I have a few, go figure … first up is 27-year-old Hasan Piker is both hot and political, being a part of the YouTube channel, The Young Turks. Hasan was born and raised in Istanbul, Turkey and graduated from Rutgers with a B.A. in political science and communication.

I, personally, would find it hard to concentrate on what he’s saying … cuz I’m shallow like that.

Also, Beau Mirchoff, from Now Apocalypse, is back because ...OMG ... and we also have Devon Long, who plays Otto on the show. It looks like gay Otto and straight Ford, might have a little sump’n-sump’n going on but even if they don’t the scene where Ford, in a wee speedo, applied sunscreen to Otto, also in a wee speedo, was pretty steamy.

Just saying.

I Didn't Say It ...

Kellyanne Conway, on folks who say she's an idiot and a liar:

“Anybody who pretends I’m not smart or not credible, it’s like, ‘Excuse me, I’ve spoken 1.2 million words on TV, okay?’ You wanna focus on two here and two there, it’s on you, you’re a fucking miserable person, P.S., just whoever you are.”

Seriously? This moron has counted her words? This moron can count?

And that’s a lovely thing for a Catholic and mother to say about people who find her obtuse and stupid and asinine and a liar and a goosestepper in the Hate Regime.

Fuck off, Kellyanne, your Fifteen Minutes are about up.

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Eric Swalwell, Democratic congressman from California, and member of the House Intelligence Committee, calling for its chairman Republican Devin Nunes, to resign:

“This was done because the White House wanted it to be done, and this is what the cover-up to a crime looks like. We are watching it play out right now. A lot of [lawmakers] have said that we don’t need an independent commission because we’re doing the work in the House committee, on the Intelligence Committee, and so that’s always been the out for not having an independent commission, [but] I’ve heard frustration that they don’t have that out anymore. So where do we go now?”

We go to an independent committee to investigate Hair Furor for treason and then jail the whole bunch ... including Nunes who colluded with _____ to save his ass.

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President _____, lying about the GOP-Don't-Care Epic Fail he suffered and who was to blame:

“I think there wasn’t a speech I made or very few where I didn’t mention that perhaps the best thing that could happen is exactly what happened today, because we’ll end up with a truly great health care bill in the future after this mess known as Obamacare explodes. Obamacare was rammed down everyone’s throat, one hundred percent down their throat. [And] I never said ‘repeal and replace Obamacare’. I never said ‘repeal’ and ‘replace it’ within 64 days.”

Actually, you lying piece of sh*t, there wasn’t a speech you gave where you didn’t say Job One was to repeal and replace ACA and you couldn’t even get that done.

You lie, and you fail, and I’m sorry, but you’ll be up for elimination, er, impeachment.

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Stephen Colbert, on _____'s son-in-law, Jared's Kushner's new "job" in Washington:

“Kushner’s job will be to lead a team to ‘fix government with business ideas.’ And you know he’s got great business ideas, like being born into a wealthy real estate family, or marrying into a wealthy real estate family. Why hasn’t the government tried that?”

Snap. Jared will probably join his daddy-in-law in the clink and poor little Complicit will be without her two great loves.

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Devin Nunes, Republican House Intel Committee Chairman, trying to spin a _____-sized lie about the Russia scandal:

“We’re beginning to figure out who’s actually serious about the investigation because it appears like the Democrats aren’t really serious about this investigation.”

Bitch; please. 

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President _____, at a women’s empowerment event:

“My cabinet is full of really incredible women leaders .... Since the very beginning, women have driven, and I mean, each generation of Americans, towards a more free and more prosperous future. These patriots are women like the legendary Abigail Adams, right? Who, during the founding, urged her husband to remember the rights of women. She was very much a pioneer in that way. We’ve been blessed with courageous heroes like Harriet Tubman who escaped slavery. And went on to deliver hundreds of others to freedom, first in the underground railroad and then as a spy for the union army. She was very, very courageous, believe me. Around we’ve had leaders like Susan B. Anthony. Have you heard of Susan B. Anthony? I’m shocked that you’ve heard of her — who dreamed of a much more fair and equal future and an America where women themselves as she said helped to make laws and elect the lawmakers, and that’s what’s happening more and more.”

To be clear, the PussyGroper's cabinet is more white and more male than any cabinet since Ronald Reagan.

And I find it funny that _____ thinks if he hasn’t heard of some famous person—Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass, fer chrissakes—he thinks no one else.

Seriously, Hair Furor is one of the dumbest presidents ever.

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Jack Falahee, How To get Away With Murder actor, on how playing openly gay Connor Walsh, who has an HIV-positive boyfriend, has opened his eyes to the LGBTQ struggle:

“I’m still not over how the much of an impact the show has made and a lot of that is Connor’s character and his importance to fans. It’s emblematic of my straight privilege, but I never thought his character would be so important to the LGBTQ community.  ... Going into this, it was never written on the page that ‘Connor Walsh is a homosexual,’ so when it came to the first love scene I just thought, ‘Wow, this guy is willing to do whatever it takes to get ahead’ and now I know that was the heteronormativity in my mind back then that was rationalizing this whole aspect of his character. It wasn’t until [series creator] Pete Nowalk was like “Oh no, Connor is gay” that I’ve been really trying to become a student of the history of LGBTQ rights and learning more about the struggle of those in the past and in the present day.  I asked my friends for a reading list on LGBTQ history because one of my favorite aspects about being an actor is that I’m continually having to learn about things I’ve been very uneducated on in the past.”

Okay, first things first, I find Jack Falahee smolderingly hot.

Secondly, I love how a straight actor, when taking on a gay role, uses that as a way to learn about the struggles of an entire community so he can bring that to the role.

Thirdly, I love how he explains his ‘heteronormativity’ and how it colored his mind into thinking Conner was straight.

Lastly, yeah he’s kinda sultry hot.

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Which One Would You Hit? HTGAWM Edition

Since How To Get Away With Murder, AKA HTGAWM, returned last night, I thought, what better time than to play Which One Would You Hit, clockwise from top left:

Alfred Enoch. as Wes Gibbons AKA Wait List, AKA murderer?

JackFalahee, is Connor Walsh, who uses sex ... with men ... as a means to an end.

Matt McGorry, as Asher Millstone, the high-strung legacy at the university.

Billy Brown, as Nate Lahey, the hot cop with whom Viola Davis's Annalise Keating had a torrid affair.

Charlie Weber, is Frank Delfino, who assists Annalise when he's not seducing her students.

So ...

Which.One.Would.You.Hit?

Which ... One.