Harriet Miers Couldn't Even Write This Stuff

Notice Jake Gyllenhaal's brilliance when answering a simple question about the upcoming movie Brokeback Mountain:

Latino Review: Are you nervous about doing the role, since it’s a love story about two men?

Jake: I’m nervous more about, the movie is about identity and about figuring out your identity and that I’m more scared about facing then I am about, you know, the, I think the secondary part of it which is that it is a story, you know a love story between two guys. That doesn’t really, look, you do a love scene in any movie it’s uncomfortable and it’s, you know, pretty asexual no matter what, and if you do get off on doing a love story, a love scene in a movie you should figure some stuff out.

The next question is the obvious one:

LR: What do you mean by that?

Jake: I don’t know, just ‘cause it’s very perverse and weird. It’s like tons of people are watching you, and it’s not real and it’s a very intimate thing that you’re faking intimacy in a weird way, you know? That’s always the place where it doesn’t have to be anything really. What has to happen—what has to make it something are the scenes before and after it. That’s what makes it that, I think, intimate...

What did you mean by that? His answer: I don't know. At least he's honest about it. Also, notice he believes that gay love scenes are "perverse and weird." Don't forget he is a BIG-HEARTED LIBERAL!

Gyllenhaal for Senate! Miers for SCOTUS!

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Christ the Lord

Um, this is the title of Anne Rice's next book.

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The New Hoodies

I actually like the one on the left and would in fact buy one. I don't see what the big deal is. Michelle Malkin can be a nervous mother at times.

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Poverty in America: It Ain't What It Used to Be

Michael Bowers at The Star has some interesting statistics on the meaning of poverty today compared to that of yesteryear:

Today, even the poor have a bewildering array of comforts. "More than 98 percent of American homes have a telephone, electricity and a flush toilet," the study says. "More than 70 percent of Americans own a car, a VCR, a microwave, air conditioning, cable TV, and a washer and dryer." In 1900, almost no homes had such conveniences.

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Now go to the Web site "globalrichlist" and type in $39,000. Guess what. Your new household income ranks in the top 4 percent of all the people in the world. Only 72 million people make more than you do. Almost 6 billion make less. And you didn't even have to go to college.

Click here to read it all. Poverty just isn't what it's cracked up to be...and that's a good thing.

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