The Greek poet Sappho who - despite being Lesbian - probably wasn't a lesbian
-Who's on first?-
The island of Lesbos -- home to the poet Sappho, who "praised love between women" -- is suing a greek gay rights group over the use of the word "Lesbian." The organization, Homosexual and Lesbian Community of Greece, "insults the identity" of the people of Lesbos, who are, of course, Lesbians. Just not those kind of lesbians.
So here's where things stand right now; the Lesbians have taken the lesbians to court to remove the word "lesbian" from the partially-lesbian group's name. No word on how Lesbian lesbians feel about being called lesbians and, as far as I can tell, no one's bothered to ask them. Seems to me that Lesbian lesbians would be more expert in the use of the word "lesbian" than Lesbian non-lesbians or non-Lesbian lesbians.
I say, let the Lesbian lesbians decide, not the Lesbian non-lesbians or non-Lesbian lesbians. I mean, it's only fair. (AP)
-Headline of the day-
"Clinton blasts Bush for not stopping a project Bill OK'd."
Hillary Clinton's slamming Bush for a program that wound up shipping jobs from an Indiana company to China. There's a tiny little hitch in her reasoning; it's not Bush's program, it's Bill Clinton's. According to the report, "What Clinton never includes in the oft-repeated tale is the role that prominent Democrats played in selling the company and its technology to the Chinese. She never mentions that big-time Democratic contributor George Soros helped put together the deal to sell the company or that the sale was approved by her husband's administration."
"Hillary Clinton must have been hoping we Hoosiers have short memories,” Indiana resident Ed Dixon wrote in a letter to a local newspaper. “Her husband was president at the time and allowed this to happen."
“The jobs went to China, but so did the technology. And now the United States military has to buy the magnets we need for the smart bombs we invented from China,” Hillary says.
And whose fault is that again?
The Clinton campaign offers a rebuttal to the story, but McClatchy notes, "Its first sentence is factually inaccurate." Not really starting out on the right foot.
Still, I'm sure Hillary would dodge sniper fire in Bosnia to save American jobs. (McClatchy)
-Bonus HotD-
"O’Reilly: ‘We Didn’t Invade Iraq’."
Seriously.
FOX blowhard Bill O'Reilly said on his show that, "We didn’t invade Iraq."
"It was a declaration of war, it was a declaration to enforce the first Gulf War Treaty," he said. It's weird how wrong one man can consistently be. First off, we did invade Iraq -- declaration or no declaration -- kind of like we invaded Normandy. The word "invade" has jack to do with whether or not the war is legal. Second, there was no declaration of war -- neither from the UN nor the US Congress. Third, there wasn't a declaration of war for the first Gulf conflict, either.
Of course, Bill's never let a little thing like the plain truth keep him from making a complete ass of himself. He'll just say whatever pops into his demented and, frankly, melon-like head and that's the new truth.
Seriously, you've got to wonder what's wrong with that oversized cantaloupe on his shoulders. (Think Progress)
