More Mark Foley Madness
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elfsI know I should let this story go, but it's full of juicy scandal and silliness, and while it may have been a little traumatizing in the end everyone survived and will probably go on to lead successful and happy lives, except for Mark Foley.
Foley apparently frothed at the mouth over a nudist camp that invited the recently post-pubescent. He ranted about the fact that the camp had a category, COG, or "Creepy Old Guy," and had a mechanism for easily expelling counsellors who rose to that category. It must be absolute kismet that one of the people who share the lakefront with the camp is name "Elf Anderson."
Silly as it sounds, Newt Gingrich's excuse for the Republican House Leadership not stressing Foley too much? They were afraid of being accused of gay-bashing. Right. Load up the fully-automatic butt-monkeys, boys, because the people who brought us the Defense of Marriage Act are scared of being seen as "hard on homos."
But the truly sad aspect of the whole thing? Foley's instant messages are boring! Sad but true: the man couldn't actually write smut with any creativity. Nor could he spell. Okay, maybe it's a point of pride for me, but when I was young and stupid and hotchatted I still thought of my shift key and knew how to backspace when I'd misspelled something.
Foley apparently frothed at the mouth over a nudist camp that invited the recently post-pubescent. He ranted about the fact that the camp had a category, COG, or "Creepy Old Guy," and had a mechanism for easily expelling counsellors who rose to that category. It must be absolute kismet that one of the people who share the lakefront with the camp is name "Elf Anderson."
Silly as it sounds, Newt Gingrich's excuse for the Republican House Leadership not stressing Foley too much? They were afraid of being accused of gay-bashing. Right. Load up the fully-automatic butt-monkeys, boys, because the people who brought us the Defense of Marriage Act are scared of being seen as "hard on homos."
But the truly sad aspect of the whole thing? Foley's instant messages are boring! Sad but true: the man couldn't actually write smut with any creativity. Nor could he spell. Okay, maybe it's a point of pride for me, but when I was young and stupid and hotchatted I still thought of my shift key and knew how to backspace when I'd misspelled something.
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Date: 2006-10-04 12:07 am (UTC)Yes, it's all the Roman Catholic church's fault! Now, if only they can show it was one of those renegade American liberal *Democratic* priests, they'll be set.
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Date: 2006-10-04 03:04 pm (UTC)And "hard on homos"? Pun intended?