Cromulently gay

Ah! It feels good to be making a post. I've been extremely lax about taking you with my on my mental wanderings, and I feel bad. Whether anyone has missed my cerebral journeys, or will appreciate an update, is a matter open for debate. Feel free to leave comments in either direction.

I've been feeling particularly disappointed in our government of late. Without getting too much into my personal politics (which I'm sure you're aware of, if you're reading this blog), let's just say I think that the people in charge of all aspects of our government are mentally challenged, and that the electorate of our country either has a terminal case of ADHD or is incapable of critical thought. One of the few bright spots that make me smile, however, is that Rick Santorum is no longer in office. While in office he was consistently bigoted, close minded, insensitive, homophobic, and ineffective. Somehow, however, he was third from the top in the Republican party's congressional leadership! He lost his seat (in a landslide, by the way) in 2006, but not before his consistently anti-homosexual stance made him so unpopular with the gay population of the USA that one humorist started a movement to associate his name with an after effect of gay male sex, so that he now can be found on urbandictionary.com(a possibly NSFW link).

This new meaning, according to Wikipedia, is called a "neologism". I think this is particularly funny for a couple of reasons. First, neologism is pronounced so that the last two syllables sound the same as "jism", a slang word for semen, and secondly, because my buddy Ironhorse was bantering around the word "cromulent" this weekend. Cromulent, you see, is also a neologism, created by The Simpsons. According to Websters, cromulent means "fine or acceptable", but it still doesn't show up in my spell checker.

To get back to the electorate and how stupid they (we!) are, I just want to point out that Rick Santorum is certainly not the only Congressman (or former Congressman) to be associated with homosexuality, although the others I'm thinking about are more directly associated with it. Leroy Craig, for example, recently made headlines for soliciting gay sex in a Minneapolis airport restroom. Representative Mark Foley resigned after being caught sending lewd notes to underage Congressional page boys, and Representative Bob Allen was arrested for soliciting prostitution from a male undercover police officer. I can't help but find it ironic that all of these Congressmen were against gay rights. I think it can only be a matter of time before Senator Brownback is arrested for underage lube wrestling with a boyscout troop. Sure, some of the biggest opponents of gay rights are not only secretly gay but huge perverts, but wouldn't it be healthier for them and the voting public if we all just realized it's perfectly cromulent to be homosexual? I really think it would embiggen them to come out of the closet, and it might help show the electorate that it's okay to talk about other things than what's in our pants.