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17 March 2010: St. Patrick’s Snakes

Paul March 17th, 2010

Legend has it that St. Patrick banished all the snakes from Ireland.  If we pray hard enough, maybe the good saint will come back and rid us of all the snakes in Congress, the red ones as well as the blue ones.  And then, if there’s time, because “sex addiction” seems to be rearing its head ever more frequently these days, maybe he can also tame the unruly snakes in the trousers of seminal celebrities like Tiger Woods, John Edwards, David Letterman, Eliot Spitzer, Mark Sanford, Mark Foley, Eric Massa, ad nauseam.  Tennis, anyone?  Snorkeling?

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10 March 2010: “Thy rod and thy staff…”

Paul March 10th, 2010

Former Representative Eric J. Massa of New York admits that he groped several male aides inappropriately in his office, grabbed another male staff member’s member at a wedding party, and tickled yet another male underling “until he couldn’t breathe,” but that there was “nothing sexual” about these close encounters of the gay kind.  What surprises me is that Massa has not quoted Psalm 23 in his own defense:  “Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.”

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