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At long last, my deep ambivalence about gay marriage — that it’s probably politically necessary, but is founded in feudal ideas of slavery and property; e.g. a concept to be reviled, not emulated — has been forcefully (make that fiercefully) articulated by author Matilda Bernstein-Sycamore.

Bernstein owns the queer argument against “gay marriage”…. including the essential backstory of the modern political movement, which took shape during the peak horrors of the AIDS tragedy (too easily forgotten, in both “gay” and “mainstream” cultures).

The story appeared on NPR’s “Tell Me More“. Here is a link to the show and transcript: A ‘Queer’ Argument Against Marriage, National Public Radio, “Tell Me More” program, broadcast June 10, 2010

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Jon Stewart gives Obama a well-deserved shellacking for his turnaround on the Bush torture doctrine and gays in the military.

Stephen Fry’s letter to his younger self is extremely moving and not to be missed.

Sorry, but the lavishly produced and relentlessly hyped “Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire” just wasn’t very funny (with the exception of Alex MacQueen & Matt Lucas, pictured).

There seemed to be two shows going on: one, a standard-issue sex comedy geared to horny junior high school males; the other a Pythonesque parody of fantasy fiction.  The two styles are clumsily grafted together — the sorcerer’s jive-talkin’ and Krod’s frat-boy rantings don’t dovetail convincingly (or humorously) with the funny, faux-grandeur of the scenes with Matt Lucas.

Much of the comedy is lazy and gratuitous, especially the poorly-drawn gay stereotype character, the sexy chick,  and the aforementioned ghetto Merlin.  (BTW, I am not offended in some “PC” kind of way about this — I think every tribe, especially my own, is well-served by a good lampooning.  Think of Scott Thompson’s “Buddy Cole”  from Kids in the Hall — a great gay stereotype.) 

Comedy Central, or somebody, obviously paid a lot of money to produce this sophomoric yawn.  Perhaps it will pay off with their target demographic, e.g. the 18-34 year-old, male, potential Old Spice bodywash consumers?