Typical branch on the Bush family tree
-That explains a lot...-
New York Post is reporting that Bush's ancestry includes the inspiration for Count Dracula, Vlad the Impaler. It's not extremely surprising, Vlad is described as "a paranoid and bloodthirsty despot" who "ruled through torture and murder."
Despite this, Vlad is a national hero in Romania, where he's seen as saving his country from invasion by Ottoman Turks. Let modern day Turks, with their threats to invade Iraq, beware. "During his tenure, [Vlad] killed by the droves, impaling on a forest of spikes around his castle thousands of subjects who he saw as either traitors, would-be traitors or enemies to the security of Romania and the Roman Catholic Church. Sometimes, he slew merely to show other possible insurgents and criminals just what their fate would be if they became troublesome," the report reads.
Vlad is also the inspiration for the ghost "Vigo" in Ghostbusters II. It seems the apple didn't fall far from that particular family tree. Where Vigo was "The Sorrow of Maldavia," Bush has become "The Sorrow of America." They even have the same motto, "On a mountain of skulls, in the castle of pain, I sat on a throne of blood! What was will be! What is will be no more! Now is the season of evil!" Cue up "Hail to the Chief." (Raw Story)
-Playing dress-up-
Republican state Senator Richard Curtis is in a little trouble. After being outed in an extortion scandal with a gay hooker, Curtis was also exposed as a crossdresser. "...police reports and court records indicate the Republican lawmaker from southwestern Washington dressed up in women's lingerie and met a Medical Lake man in a local erotic video store which led to consensual sex at a downtown hotel and a threat to expose Curtis' activities publicly," according to the report.
None of which would be extremely bothersome to me, if it weren't for the fact that Curtis is just one more closeted gay using homophobia as a beard. He'd voted against domestic partnerships for gays and lesbians and opposed a bill that banned discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
The legislator insists he's not gay, but the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports that witnesses told police they saw "Curtis dressed in women's lingerie at the erotic store," while "records showed Curtis purchased two gay pornographic films from the hotel to watch with [said prostitute,] Castagna."
So he's not gay, he just does really gay stuff. (Seattle PI, Alternet)
-Headline of the day-
"Halloween costume teeth pulled from US shops due to lead fears." Not really the best choice of words and, yeah, they're from China. (AFP)
