Quote of the day

OK, we've got Elton. Who's up for another conservo-libertarian British musician mascot?

Johnny Rotten, anyone?

I really resent the presumption that I'm going there to play to right-wing Nazi jews [sic]. If Elvis-f-ing-Costello wants to pull out of a gig in Israel because he's suddenly got this compassion for Palestinians, then good on him. But I have absolutely one rule, right? Until I see an Arab country, a Muslim country, with a democracy, I won't understand how anyone can have a problem with how they're treated.

Johnny Lydon, formerly of the seminal British punk band, The Sex Pistols, got off that epic bit of smack with regard to his gig in Tel Aviv later this month with his current band, Public Image Ltd., and the boycotts of Israel by other musicians.

With that in mind, let's hit up YouTube for some 80s nostalgia and some anti- Elvis-f-ing-Costello (sorry, Elvis) sentiment.

Folks, Johnny Lydon and Public Image Ltd. performing "Rise".

That oughta learn'em.

A Day without a Gay, yet another gay community grass roots response to being on the losing end of Prop. 8 swept across… swept across… well, it swept through Hillcrest, San Diego’s gay enclave appearing to hurt only those businesses patronized by the gay community and which are, thusly, supportive of the gay community.

"Tawny Gonzales says it was slower than usual at her Hillcrest hair salon.
Gonzales says she wanted to support the "Day Without a Gay" boycott but she had to open the store she manages. "So I couldn't be out there supporting because
then I'm losing money, the salon's losing money cause I'm not opening," said
Gonzales."

Ms. Gonzales illustrates perfectly the circular logic that calls into question the effectiveness of these types of boycotts and which also…. makes our head hurt.

Nice try, anyway, people.

Now, THIS is the type of 'Boycott' we can all get behind.

We’re not Catholic… but we’ve got many Catholic friends so it has caused us no small degree of shame and embarrassment over the behavior displayed in this row up in San Francisco right now.

There is a street fair in the City called the Folsom Steet Fair which is an unabashed leather/fetish happening and which is sponsored in part by Miller Brewing Co. What has a particular Catholic group upset is a poster for the event that depicts leather-clad males and females sitting around a table, Last Supper-style, with sex toys littered around the same table. And just to make sure the less-savory wings of the Catholic Church were properly offended… Jesus is black. (This follows a theme in many of the “alternative” Christ stories. The only one that beats black Jesus is Jesus having relations with Mary Magdalene. It seems every single one of them, from the Last Temptation of Christ to the DaVinci Code, can’t seem to drop their lurid fascination of Jesus having sex with a prostitute.)

This group, the Catholic League, is calling for Miller to pull their sponsorship of the event and short of that they are calling for a boycott of all Miller products. A boycott? Ohhhh…. no .. anything but a boycott.

Are they serious? A boycott?. Honestly, what a bunch of wusses. Message to the Catholic League: If you want some reaction… if you want some justice… if you want to be taken seriously as a player and have newspaper editorial staffs and legislative bodies the world over roll over to your demands and the President of the world’s most powerful nation fall all over himself extolling the virtues of your religion then get serious!

Torch some cars… throw rocks through storefront windows…. declare some fatwas....be-head some infidels….! Show that you are a true believer! Demonstrate to the planet that your religion is not to be trifled with and that your religion really is a tolerant and peaceful one… until someone says it isn’t. Make me BELIEVE!

Short of all that, don’t waste our time… we don’t drink any of Miller’s swill anyway.