I think perhaps I need some cultural diversity (*) in my blogging habits, so here's a start. This guy is a RIOT (no pun intended (click on the links and you'll see why I say that))! ROTFLMAO! I'm still trying to figure out if he's offensively heterosexist, but he seem to be fairly open-minded, so I'm giving him a chance. At any rate, his rantings on Dubya are hysterical (although he might resent (or at least claim to) the application of such a woman-oriented adjective, but tough shit for him)!
Here are a couple of examples of what he has to say about Dubya:
what the fuck is a compassionate conservative?
bush denies he is dyslexic. i believe him. he is an idiot. no need to offend dyslexics

I got to his site because I was trying to figure out what the hell is the deal with Matt Drudge and the "Drudge Report", since I'm always seeing references to it. I just went to the site for the first time, and it doesn't give a lot of information about what it is or what its point is (I hate that in a site). The impression I've gotten from when I've seen it referenced is that it's a conservative site, but I wanted to just see it for myself, and it doesn't actually seem to say anywhere, so I was doing a Google search, and I came across this Eightheadz guy's rant about Matt Drudge patronizing gay bars...

Note: Examples of the particularly suspect rants with regard to heterosexism: ads target gay domestic abuse and transsexual sergeant gets demoted for lacking a commanding presence. I mean, really there's no question that the viewpoints he espouses are heterosexist, and yet, he's funny, and witty; he does use critical thinking, and he's really not a blatant bigot. (I actually think he's personally not really a bigot at all—he's just not willing to totally disassociate from the heterosexist assumptions of his formative culture, at least not publicly.) He seems to represent a sort of fairly common semi-ignorant, semi-stereotypical, mostly-self-unexamined normative view of sexuality ("I don't really care what gays do...yeah, they should have rights and all...but man, just don't make me think about what they actually do...ewwww!—now two chicks going at it while I watch, that's another story!) ;) One way to think of it, at least he's giving press to these issues, and presenting a non-hateful-if-not-totally-enlightened viewpoint for many of his readers who might otherwise just wallow in a totally unexamined "man, fags are sick!!!" mentality. Anyway, that's my two cents.

More on to come...

(*) I'm figuring that for a young-liberal-white-middle-class-intellectual type such as myself, reading a couple of Iraqi blogs and another couple en français doesn't really count for much (although for an American it's a hell of a lot better than average!)... I mean, come on now, let's try for a bit further outside of our box...
...Although since this guy is clearly (upon any investigation) a (very) intelligent, liberal, educated type himself (despite any intentional appearances to the contrary), I'm not sure how much credit I get, but then how much can you really ask from people?! At least he and his blog both look different from myself and mine, and his experience and interests arguably differ quite a bit from mine... hell, what can I say, ya do what ya can! :P

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