WARNING: Please don’t read this while eating or if you’re otherwise prone to nausea.

Is Karl Rove gay? Geez, I hope not. He has certainly never activated my gaydar – but then I’m not sure it works on other species. But I was googling around today and came upon this story, which I pass along for your amusement:

Walter Storch, editor of the Barnes Review News reported three weeks ago that “Karl Rove was seen by one of my people entering a private homosexual orgy at a five-star Washington hotel over the Mid-Atlantic Leather (MAL) weekend last year.” [2004]

A Barnes reporter told Storch that “Karl greatly enjoyed the supervision of a certain hairy 350-lb. Leather Dominator who had won the Miss Virginia Daddy Bear title at the MAL festivities.”

Storch wrote, “Karl used to hang out a JR’s, which is on 17th between P & S streets, before he became so well-known. This is a respectable gay bar for discreet people…,” adding, “there is an expensive apartment…over near Dupont Circle that certain powerful senators take turns visiting with their pickups.”

“Bush, via Karl Rove, was projected as a moral man who would return a hedonistic America to the simpler virtues of a bygone era. A large part of the American public, unhappy with what they saw as debilitating liberalism, abortion on demand, gay marriage and other forms of moral decay, put Bush back in office,” said the Barnes editor.

“Now they have to deal with rampant male whores prancing around the White House in consort with a small army of closet queens, all of whom very obviously have the ear, and the confidence, (and hopefully, that’s all they have) of their ‘moral’ choice for President,” said Storch.

Interestingly, TBRNews.org also counts “one Supreme Court Justice, several governors (all Republican) and at least one very prominent televangelist” among those high officials who are saying one thing and doing another with respect to Storch’s closet queen issue.

Personally, I don’t buy it. On the other hand, it might explain why a prostitute named Bulldog got a White House day pass just about every day for over year under the name “Jeff Gannon.”

Pensito Review recently reported on a group of Florida parents asking a school board to make means to “opt out” of military recruiting more widely available on campus.

Here is a web site where you can opt out of both the Pentagon’s database and the schools’ military recruitment lists:

LeaveMyChildAlone.org

Parents, since these lists are being compiled on kids beginning in middle school, and since recruiters begin contacting them that early, don’t wait to sign up.

Rush Limbaugh is looking more like the poster child for today’s drug addict. A recent study by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University found that the type of drugs Rush enjoy(ed) are the drugs of choice for more Americans than all others combined.

The 15.1 million Americans abusing controlled prescription drugs exceed the combined number abusing cocaine (5.9 million), hallucinogens (4.0 million), inhalants (2.1 million) and heroin (.3 million).

Among the most popular are OxyContin and Vicodin, Valium and Xanax, and Ritalin and Adderall. The study found that between 1992 and 2003, there was an 81 percent increase in abuse of these drugs by adults (18 and over), and a startling 212 percent jump among 12- to 17-year-olds.

“Our nation is in the throes of an epidemic of controlled prescription drug abuse and addiction,” said Joseph A. Califano, Jr., CASA’s chairman and president and former U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. “While America has been congratulating itself in recent years on curbing increases in alcohol and illicit drug abuse, and in the decline in teen smoking, abuse of prescription drugs has been stealthily, but sharply, rising.”

Availability of these drugs – which are so much more alluring to the Rushes and Noelle Bushes of the world – online has a lot to do with their popularity, the study said. If only they had figured out how to buy online, the pair might not have been busted for doctor shopping.