Rusty apologizes. Sorta. But still, ewww.
I think it is absolutely absurd that during these very serious political times, we are discussing personal sexual recreational activities before members of Congress.
"Sexual recreational activities"...?
First off, if you spend three days yelling "slut" at a specific woman and then offer a clearly baffled "apology" once your advertisers get disgusted, something is nuts about you from the get-go.
I think the "something" here that is "nuts" is revealed in the weird notion of "sexual recreational activities."
Who on earth sees sex as some sort of "recreation," like a hobby?
For most of us, sex is deeply intertwined with who we are, and who we want to be, and how we relate to others, because, well, to have sex, for most of us, we have to meet someone else who is kind of into having this experience with us, and that involves all sorts of complexities. It's often deeply humiliating, it's hard work, and on occasion, it's transcendent.
You can only conceive of sex as "recreational" if you are some sort of sociopath who takes occasional third world junkets involving pharmaceuticals and who bankrolls legal regimes under which it it is acceptable to exchange "consent" for "cash."
But, you know, that is not how most humans behave.
I submit that you can't rave for three straight days about how a specific young woman is a "slut," and not realize you have crossed a line until you get hit on the head with it, unless you are profoundly damaged and deeply unusual.
There is a reason that even though for decades loads of insurance plans have paid for contraception, it's taken until last Wednesday for the American right to have discovered whorishness in this arrangement. It's because conservatives are only normal humans if they don't know it, or by accident, when they are compelled to realize that reality hates them.
And the reality is, women and men have sex, often together, and mostly the goal is not child-having.
The right wing is weird.
MAS. Most baffling continuing attack on Sandra Fluke, from Jim Hoft. She's 30 years old! And...? I guess this is to do with how Greater Wingnuttia seems to believe that there was some sort of Media Deception in pretending that she was a "23 year old coed." All of this is crazy, but there you go.
