Homophobia-America's last greatest value????

Republican Corruption in the past three years:

Ted Stevens

Larry Craig

Bob Ney

Tom Delay

Jack Ryan

Bob Livingston

Duke Cunningham

Sexual Scandals-with women

David Vitter

Jim Gibbons

Ed Schrock

Sexual scandals with men

Mark Foley

Bob Allen

Craig

Our culture loves moral outrage. Especially politicians. They step into dog shit repeatedly, trying to wipe the residue on the grass before anyone can smell it.

But we seem to have created our last bastion of outrage for our own homophobic fears.

Blase'-oh yeah, absolutely blase'-we have become when it comes to hook ups with hookers, adulterous affairs, even assaulting women in parking garages, like Jim Gibbons did and then smearing her reputation in the press aka Carl Rove style.

Nothing like destroying a woman to make a man feel powerful, eh?

Ah, but male sex? Outrage!

Our last bastion of morality.

Stealing money, selling out the citizens of the US, lying, spying, locking us up without a warrant, denying legal representation, ignoring our critical needs during time of disaster- *yawn*

Homophobia!! Welcome to the forefront of America's paranoid, judgement day act one of many more to come script...Welcome to Brokeback Mountain hell!!

uncharted, american stuff-headlong into whatever...

The American world is one big buffet of polarization, excess and deprivation, obsessiveness and denial, riotous noise and dead silence.

We look for bombs in soda cans, mysterious poison powders in dumpsters, terrorists in skin color and we rarely learn from either our wisdom or are mistakes.

Whether it is interrment camps for Japanese-American citizens, indefinite lock-ups for Americans of middle eastern descent or massive round-ups of Mexican-Americans, we look for the boogy man in all that is not white.

Like a beached whale taking it's last gasp in a swirling mass of air, so foreign and lethal, panicked, we continue grasping for the familiar water. Our instincts to grasp the microscopic, almost invisable fishing line, unseeable, unable to hold the massive weight of fear we collectively produce creates a repeated pattern of attack and withdraw, attack and withdraw.

Hurricane Katrina reduced a city to rubble. All but wiped out a geographical region. Unprepared, using our denial, we created the menu and nature chose the main course.

If human spirit exists, we can transcend the panic mode of our existence and deal with reality rather than rhetoric.

Let's look beyond ourselves, now, rather than clinging and pushing our way to extinction.