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Rants & raves.


"When Golan Cipel took on the governor, he bit on more than he could chew."

--George R. Zoffinger, president of the New Jersey Sports Authority, defending Gov. James McGreevey against allegations of sexual harassment sexual harassment, in law, verbal or physical behavior of a sexual nature, aimed at a particular person or group of people, especially in the workplace or in academic or other institutional settings, that is actionable, as in tort or under equal-opportunity statutes.  by Golan Cipel (right), as quoted by the New York Post's Page Sic, August 19

"Maybe, just maybe, a person's backstairs back·stairs   also back·stair
adj.
Furtively carried on; clandestine: backstairs gossip.


backstairs or backstair
Adjective
, backstage handling of things begins because America has yet to deal with its homosexual guilt. It's hateful that carrion are circling. Everybody, back off."

--Gossip columnist Cindy Adams, defending New Jersey governor James McGreevey, in her New York Post The New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and the oldest to have been published continually as a daily.[3] Since 1976, it has been owned by Australian-born billionaire Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation and is one of the 10  column, August 16

"As a native of New Jersey, I'd just like to take this opportunity to say, 'I am a gay American.'"

--Film director Kevin Smith, who's straight, goofing on his governor at a Los Angeles press event to promote the DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc.
DVD
 in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc

Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology.
 release of his films Clerks and Jersey Girl, August 18

Tucker Carlson: "You're calling Bush gay, which is both homoerotic ho·mo·e·rot·ic  
adj.
1. Of or concerning homosexual love and desire.

2. Tending to arouse such desire.

Adj. 1.
 and homophobic! It's sick, Paul, stop it!"

Paul Begala: Every gay man I know is tougher than George W. Bush, believe me."

--An exchange on CNN's Crossfire, August 18 (Begala [far left] had instigated Carlson's remark by calling Bush a "timid little prep school cheerleader")
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Publication:The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
Date:Sep 28, 2004
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