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Rants & raves.


"I've been waiting all year to do that."

--Desperate Housewives star Felicity Huffman Felicity Huffman (born December 9, 1962) is an Academy Award nominated American actress. She is well known for her role as Lynette Scavo, the hectic busy Super-Mom on the ABC hit show Desperate Housewives which debuted in 2004, and for which Huffman won an Emmy Award.  (inset, far left), after planting a big kiss on the lips of fellow cast member Marcia Cross Marcia Anne Cross (born March 25, 1962 in Marlborough, Massachusetts) is an Emmy and Golden Globe Award-nominated American actress, best known for her lead role as Bree Van De Kamp Hodge on the hit TV show Desperate Housewives.  at the GLAAD GLAAD Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation  Media A wards in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , April 30

"Ladies and gentlemen, I am a desperate housewife. I mean, if those women on that show think they're desperate, they ought to be with George."

--Laura Bush, joking around at the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington, D.C., April 30

"I'm not saying whether I came or not on Splash Day. I'm just saying, Do you have Splash Day?"

--President George W. Bush, asking a Galveston, Texas, crowd on April 26 about the local gay and lesbian beach event, which catered to heterosexual families when Bush was growing up in Texas

"It was something I tried to do for my parents and for the gay community."

--Cincinnati Reds relief pitcher Joe Valentine, on why he "came out" at the beginning of this season about having lesbian moms, Bob Valentine and Doreen Price, as quoted in the Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Sun-Sentinel, May 3

"I would like to suggest that as a national policy we encourage the reestablishment of the Soviet Union. Sure, it was an evil empire, but at least it kept the GOP busy. Who has time for gay marriage, activist judges, or brain-dead bulimics when you've got a real boogeyman to freak out freak out Substance abuse A verb, popularized in the US in the '60s–to experience nightmarish hallucinations including by LSD or a similar drug. See 'Bad trip.', Flashback.  about?"

--Bill Maher, writing in the Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times

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, April 29
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Publication:The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
Article Type:Brief Article
Date:Jun 7, 2005
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