Modern Humorist dismembers Barbra. Heaven.
CULTURE WARRIORS: Never disappoint, so it was good to see the National Gay Lesbian Task Force take a swipe at the new openly gay head of the White House AIDS Office. “We are ready, willing and able to meet with Evertz to discuss how we can work together to increase funding for HIV/AIDS and to pursue policies that will strengthen our fight against the disease,” said NGLTF Executive Director Elizabeth Toledo in a press release. Note that the main effort must be to increase funding – on the day the Bush budget showed Ryan White spending will be stable from this year to next. A more significant challenge to Evertz is to rid Ryan White of widespread corruption and waste. A superb piece in the current Washington Monthly, a good-government liberal magazine, gives a devastating account of how much Ryan White money is being siphoned away from patients to fat-cat AIDS organizations and their lobbyists. Meanwhile the Fundamentalist Right are quietly apoplectic. Check out Jake Tapper’s latest in Salon. My favorite quote is from Heather Cirmo, head of the Family research Council: “The question is, how is the Bush administration going to act on the homosexual agenda? So far it seems to be going on a different road from the road that we’re taking.” And how’s this from an anonymous “conservative lobbyist: “I certainly don’t approve of the homosexual agenda, but I know the president has a different view. He’s pretty comfortable with these guys as long as they’re on board with the rest of his agenda.” I guess I didn’t screw up endorsing W after all.
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