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Guest-hosting ESPN Radio in L.A.

On Monday and Tuesday, 4pm-6pm Eastern Time, I'm guest-hosting the D'Marco Farr Show with Kevin Kiley. You can listen live here. I'm pretty excited about it. For ESPN Radio to have an openly gay voice guest-host one if its popular shows in the second largest media market in the country is pretty freakin' cool. Tune in if you can!

Example #374 that gay people have lost their sense of humor

It's just one in a line, but the latest demonstration that gay people have lost their collective sense of humor comes from Telluride, Colo., where a bunch of straight people got together to march under the banner "straight pride" in an Independence Day parade. Hysterical, right? Walking with wacky signs about backdoors and kissing boys. Not so fast. As Andy Towle reports, some gay people, and some waaaay overly sensitive straight people, are crying foul.

How DARE the straights mock the gays! The gays would NEVER mock the straights.

The Outsports Revolution

It only took two years from conception to publishing, but my first book, THE OUTSPORTS REVOLUTION, is finally on the shelves. Woohoo! I hadn't given it much thought in the last couple of months until I ventured into a bookstore in Provincetown this past weekend and saw it on the shelf. The clerk asked me to sign it, which was cool.

Early reaction has been very strong. Bob Lipsyte, who is one of the most respected sports journalists in this country, emailed us and said "it's great, a terrific read AND an important source book." To get that kind of praise from him is pretty incredible, to me. Other straight and gay people who have read it have told me they really enjoyed it. "I couldn't put it down," one told me. Maybe that's just because I know them, but I don't think so.

Please do buy a copy of the book - you can get it at Amazon. From the early reaction I've heard, I think it's safe to say you won't hate it, and you'll definitely learn some things. We'll be having some book signings here and there, so stay tuned for that too. Thanks!

Scooter Libby no Martha Stewart

Been on the Cape since Friday. Love it. I ran into Andy Towle last night, who was as lovely as ever. I do enjoy him. More on him, ipods and Provincetown later.

Anyhow, he asked me what I thought of Bush's commuting Scooter Libby's sentence. I've run into several people this weekend asking me to defend Bush for this or that. But the thing is, I'm just not a big fan of George Bush. I haven't been for a few years. This one, though, is pretty defensible. To me. Presidents pardon people all the time, wiping the crime they've been found guilty of off their record entirely. Bush didn't do that. He said that Libby would not have to serve jail time; though the quarter-million-dollar fine and two years or probation stand. I also like that he did it now, while he still has 18 months as president, instead of waiting until he's hours from being a civilian again.

Hillary Clinton, of course, attacked Bush for it, saying that it was done to protect Bush's legacy. Even if that was the case (Bush said he did it because it was a trumped-up - though just - charge and the penalty was harsh), so what? Her husband pardoned 140 criminals and waited until he had one foot out the White House door to do it. And you know what? If she is president, she'll pardon criminals too.

Totalitarian socialist establishment lies, chapter 742

The liberal establishment must be stopped at all costs. They are liars, cheaters and swindlers. And this is the latest example. Liberals in the media, like Chris Matthews and the despicable John Aravosis, have completely twisted something that Ann Coulter said to make it look like she wants John Edwards assassinated. Of course, that is NOT what she said. The little clip that these totalitarian liberals are playing of Coulter is a complete misrepresentation of what she said. Of course, they don't care what the truth is; they only care about control and spreading their hate-mongering. Thank God for people like Bill O'Reilly who talked to Coulter about what she said and played THE WHOLE CLIP for their audiences (above; her comment is at 2:45).

Thank you Ann for not comparing gays to John Edwards!!!

Edwards, Aravosis, Matthews, and the rest of the divisive totalitarian liberals who showed only a 10-second misrepresentation of Coulter in order to spread more hate and misunderstanding should be ashamed of themselves.

Yet another reason to be scared to death of the liberal establishment.