Vadums Too Sexy!

If you run in the Beltway Libertariat circles, chances are, you know Matt Vadum. The master of the awkward one-handed self-photo, the man has more uncomfortable pictures than my proctologist.

In honor of the picture taking King of Taco Night, a daring anonymous friend (no, not me) has put together a montage for the ages. Enjoy!

Jenna Jameson: Homewrecker

According to a 20 year old student at BYU, porn may be as addictive as heroin:

Our society is fast becoming numb to the sexual imagery in movies and television. It’s not that men are the bad guys. Taking into consideration how their minds and bodies work, even a man who finds pornography offensive can be lured into the traps all around him. Pornographic sites sneak into non-pornographic pages, where even the most loyal husbands can stumble upon an addiction they never wanted to feed.

Yes, as I was innocently surfing the internet for a new pair of khakis, I stumbled upon Jenna Jameson’s site by accident and BAM! I was hooked for life.

Hello. My name is Sue, and I’m a pornoholic. (HI SUE!)

Sex is an expression of deepest love and devotion. Any wife would be horrified to find her husband cheating on her with another woman. Finding out that he is addicted to porn, or even looking at it casually, is just as traumatic and leaves her feeling just as betrayed.

Come again?

Sex with someone you love is indeed the best sex you can have…in my opinion. But, hooking up with a gymnast after a night of body shots and suggestive dancing at a club is, well, pretty awesome too.

Furthermore, I’m pretty sure most women would much prefer their husbands/boyfriends to subscribe to Playboy magazine or the Spice Channel than maintain a woman on the side. Call me crazy.

Normally, I think the LA Times Op-Ed page is the best of the major American papers (New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and that coloring book of a rag known as the USA Today), but letting some 20 year old (presumably) Mormon girl (read: virgin)  rant about the destructive evils of erotic film is preposterous.

Maybe next week they’ll let me opine on the horrors of my experience with menopause.

Get-Offs Will Be Prosecuted

Man meets hooker. Man pays hooker with gas card. Both go to jail.:

JULY 2–A Kentucky woman is facing prostitution charges for allegedly trading sex for gasoline. Angela Eversole, 34, was nabbed last weekend during a police stakeout at a Days Inn, where she allegedly trysted with customer Kenneth Nowak. According to investigators, Nowak admitted paying for Eversole’s services, in part, with a $100 gas card.

Oh, it gets better:

Eversole was hit with a prostitution rap and also charged with doing business without an occupational license.

Translation: “Operating pussy without a license.”

Vive la Virginité!

Okay, even the French do something cool every now and again.

PARIS — The operation in the private clinic off the Champs-Élysées involved one semicircular cut, 10 dissolving stitches and a discounted fee of $2,900.

But for the patient, a 23-year-old French student of Moroccan descent from Montpellier, the 30-minute procedure represented the key to a new life: the illusion of virginity.

Like an increasing number of Muslim women in Europe, she had a hymenoplasty, a restoration of her hymen, the thin vaginal membrane that normally breaks during the first act of intercourse.

Now, if we can just get her to forget all those cool tricks she learned…

WHO?

Apparently there was a cock-up over at the World Health Organization regarding the heterosexual HIV/AIDS “pandemic”:

A quarter of a century after the outbreak of Aids, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has accepted that the threat of a global heterosexual pandemic has disappeared.

In the first official admission that the universal prevention strategy promoted by the major Aids organisations may have been misdirected, Kevin de Cock, the head of the WHO’s department of HIV/Aids said there will be no generalised epidemic of Aids in the heterosexual population outside Africa.

Kevin de Wha???

You really can’t make this shit up.

From the WTF?!?!?!?!? Files…

Ok. I’m going to have to turn in my libertarian card for this one:

An Australian man and his adult daughter went public about their incestuous relationship after having a baby together, as it emerged that a previous child of the couple died a few days after birth.

John Deaves, 61, and his daughter Jenny, 39, have a 9-month-old daughter but have been banned from having sex after a court convicted the pair on two counts of incest.

“The couple are being monitored by the relevant authorities,” a South Australia state police spokesman told Reuters today.

The case provoked international media attention when the couple appeared on Australia’s 60 Minutes programme to explain their relationship, which began when the two were re-united eight years ago.

I might be able to say that as consenting adults, however depraved, they should be allowed to do as they wish. But kids?????

[T]he Australian Associated Press said on Monday that court documents showed they had another child in 2001 who died from congenital heart problems.

Congenital heart problems? Really? They’re lucky they didn’t have flipper babies!!!

Sick. Fuck.

Arkansas Legalizes Pedophilia, Reconsiders

From the NYT:

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas’ marriage-age crisis is over. A law that mistakenly allowed anyone — even toddlers — to marry with parental permission was repealed by a measure signed into law Wednesday by Gov. Mike Beebe, ending months of embarrassment for the state and confusion for county clerks.

Months of embarrassment? This is Arkansas. When have they not been an embarrassment?

Lawmakers didn’t realize until after the end of last year’s regular session that a law they approved, intended to establish 18 as the minimum age for marriage, instead removed the minimum age to marry entirely. An extraneous ”not” in the bill allowed anyone who was not pregnant to marry at any age with permission.

The bill read: ”In order for a person who is younger than eighteen (18) years of age and who is not pregnant to obtain a marriage license, the person must provide the county clerk with evidence of parental consent to the marriage.”

I’m surprised they managed to catch the problem. In March 2006, the State of Arkansas Department of Education goal — yes, goal — for high school (9-12) literacy proficiency by the end of the year was 35.5%.

Next on the agenda: No Legislator Left Behind.

You Mean I’m NOT a Lesbian??

I don’t normally read advice columns, but when scanning headlines over at the Chicago Tribune, this Jerry Springer-esque header caught my attention: Son tells mom he’s having affair, puts her in the middle.

Ew.

The story isn’t nearly as interesting as the headline would suggest, but that’s to be expected from the Trib. But since I was already there, I read the following letter:

Dear Amy: I am a 12-year-old girl. I am very tomboyish and have never been attracted to boys.

I am friends with a boy; we love professional basketball and talk about it 24/7.

I think he likes me because he is always smiling and gazing at me, and he nods weirdly toward me.

I am so confused. I feel special, as if I’m the only one in the world, when I talk to him. I don’t think I like him. But I’m not sure what’s going on because I’ve been such a tomboy and haven’t been paying attention to romantic stuff. Do I like him? Does he like me? Should I just talk about the NBA and ignore everything else?

– Basketball Fan

Dear Fan: You do like your friend. He also likes you. Even tomboys get crushes on people, and whether you are attracted to boys in general doesn’t really matter right now.

You both display classic crush symptoms: non-stop talking, weird nods, feeling special and being confused about it all.

All of this is normal.

At your age, you shouldn’t have to worry too much about what the future holds. Relax, enjoy this special friendship and learn to listen closely to your own feelings. Your feelings will guide you. Even if your feelings change over the course of this friendship, that’s normal too.

And I’m sorry to have to tell you this, but liking the NBA does not make you a lesbian.

One Fewer Pedophile in Congress

Finally, we have an update on the case of former Maria Cantwell scheduler James Michael McHaney. He was arrested by the FBI last year for - allegedly! - trying to arrange a mid-day sexual encounter with a 13 year old. He has now pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography instead. And for someone who is only 28, he had quite a collection:

Prosecutors said he had more than 1,000 images of child pornography, as well as videos and DVDs portraying children as young as three engaged in sexual conduct.

Is it just me, or are pedophiles themselves getting younger and younger? I would have associated a stash of this magnitude with a mouth breather in his mid-50s, easily identifiable by his narrow, crooked mustache and trademark pedosmile. In any case, let the getting-raped-in-prison jokes fly.

My Two Dads Not Appropriate for Children

Authorities in Loudon County, VA have decided to pull a children’s book from its library shelves because two male penguins decide to raise an egg together:

In the book, male penguins Roy and Silo team up to care for another pair’s egg. As a family, they hatch and raise a chick named Tango.

“Every child might not be ready for that,” [public information officer for Loudoun County Public Schools Wayde] Byard said. “They might not be mature enough to deal with that subject matter.”

It is safe to assume that there is no gay penguin sex in the book — so I have to wonder what in the hell Loudon County Public School officials are thinking when they read children’s books.

Dirty bastards.