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Pepper on McGreevey: Yet more government sexcapades

March 20th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Gay, Opinion, politics by Pepper

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  1. Pepper on Spitzer: Politi-cos and Politi-hos
  2. Pepper on McGreevey: Yet more government sexcapades

OK, so the government sexcapades continue as now-former New Jersey Governor McGreevey has some sexual skeletons in his closet, like being gay.

No wait, we knew that.

He likes dudes and had fun sexxxy times with his driver.

No wait, we knew he liked dudes, and his driver is a dude. so they had sex. OK.

He likes dudes and had fun sexxxy time with his driver and his wife.

Uh-huh. So, three consenting adults allegedly had fun, sexxxy times. He says so. She denies it.

It was in the privacy of his own home with other consenting adults. Allegedly. I tried to take a minute to see if it’s illegal in NJ, just in case. Then I though, honestly that would be a stupid law anyway. So, I don’t care. Plus, the hits that come up when you type “threesomes” and “New Jersey” into Google (250,000 of them) are not what I was looking for.

The Bottom Line

McGreevey is not Eliot Spitzer, which is where this is all coming from. Spitzer broke the law, a law which he busted other people for breaking. McGreevey likes to have fun with multiple partners simultaneously. Allegedly. These do not equate.

McGreevey Wasn’t an Openly Gay Governor

Also, I am bothered that they call mcgreevey the first openly gay governor. His situation is not a triumph over intolerance; it wasn’t proof that he could be elected on his platform and his stand on important issues, rather than with whom he spent his free time (ahem, without pay cash-money). He wasn’t open.

  1. He hid it.
  2. It came out.
  3. He came out,
  4. and then he resigned in shame.

This meant that his time being openly gay and his time as governor overlapped by, like, five minutes. That he had to hide it in order to get elected is everyone’s shame.

It’s All About Who You Bl-, er Know

Giving his boyfriend jobs (and I’m not talking about neither “hand” nor “blow”) is the kind of crony-ism that all politicians, as well as captains of industry, and corporations, and other places of employment, share. It’s usually about who you know, and by extension, to whom you’ve given a job (hand, or otherwise).

I am so done with Governors, their “scandals,” and their wives. She said no, let her have that. He’s not the governor anymore, so why bother?

I think I am going to call Governor Patterson the first openly legally blind governor in the country.

Pepper is a recent graduate of Sheboygan Conservatory of Music where she studied the accordion. She enjoys Horatio Caine/Grissom fic and old episodes of Designing Women. Since she has become unemployed, she’s got a lot of time to find stuff to be annoyed about.

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Pepper on Spitzer: Politi-cos and Politi-hos

March 14th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Opinion, politics by Pepper

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  1. Pepper on Spitzer: Politi-cos and Politi-hos
  2. Pepper on McGreevey: Yet more government sexcapades

[Ed. note: Welcome to the first in what I hope will be a long-running opinion column by the insightful, and delightfully spicy, Pepper.]

I have been reading a lot of things about Eliot Spitzer lately, a man for whom I voted back in Aught Six, and I think about politics and prostitution making strange bedfellows, but it’s really not that strange, nor that new. JFK, LBJ, Clinton, GHWB, hell, even Arnold fondled women.

I just wonder: in this era when nothing is sacred, and no one expects public figures to have any right to privacy because Perez Hilton is digging in their trash, how did he not figure out he’d be caught? It can’t just be simple hubris, here’s a man who spent his career tracking similar criminals, so he knew it could be, and has been, done.

So what the hell?

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And the award for comment of the week goes to…

March 10th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Opinion by Chris Pommier


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In response to my last post in which I embedded a popular video by Common Craft explaining the why-would-I-bother and how-does-it-work of Twitter, Aspartaimee had this to say,

i can’t keep up with kids today. bloging and txting and ROTF, and twitter and the myfacespacebook. i feel like i need to retire to a double-wide somewhere and gnaw on cold chicken from a bucket as i yell out the window forkids to get out of my yard, don’t they know they are interrupting my stories?

Though Asparaimee isn’t yet on Twitter, she did admit that she’s seeing it everywhere lately. You can find me, and follow me, there.

Thanks, Asparatimee. The prize for winning the Comment of the Week award is my undying gratitude for reading and commenting. As well as fame and glory, such as it is.

What do you think? Enough with the social media already? Or will there never be enough ways for us to communicate with each other while we’re supposed to be working?

Finally, shouldn’t there really be something called Myfacespacebook?

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An Ode to Sue Boyer

February 23rd, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Opinion by Lauren Ciechanowski

Years ago, when my father was cleaning out his parents’ house, he came across his childhood Boy Scouts of America handbook. When I found the book myself, I relished it as an artifact of the days when Scouting meant adventure. My own Girl Scout experiences didn’t look at all like cooking over an open flame, tying slipknots and devising outdoor showers with pails and sticks. Mine looked like Sue and Jean, our homely Scout leaders, cutting ice cream into equal rectangles we could enjoy while the other girls made fun of me in the elementary school cafeteria.

And it is with the same childlike reverence that I recently finished reading Abbie Hoffman’s 1971 classic, Steal This Book. Though the good old days were not as they seemed, the book still possesses a kinetic energy and a presence of irony that seems missing from activism today. In an age when my peers rebel by riding bikes and caucusing, a how-to guide to hitchhiking, crafting Molotov cocktails, and rolling joints is certainly a throwback to something. The political climate Hoffman was confronting was not unlike the climate of today: a stupid incumbent president setting records for low approval ratings, fronting an administration rife with scandal, entrenching the country in a war in we had no business fighting. So why is it that Washington has not been overrun with protests? Where are the troublemakers? Where are the Merry Pranksters?

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Geopolitical Sci-Fi: Parag Khanna Delves into the Future

January 29th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Opinion by Chris Pommier

Parag Khanna, senior research fellow at the New American Foundation and director of the Global Governance Initiative, wrote a treatise in the New York Times Magazine this weekend on a post-American globe.

It is 2016, and …America’s standing in the world remains in steady decline.

Mr. Khanna defines global leadership in terms of the marketplace and which superpowers “make the rules.” He portrays the United States as losing ground to both the EU and China. He dismisses Russia, the nation of Islam and India. It is well worth a read, though a little long for perusing at work.

What do you think?

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