LINK: Dan Savage (who some of you may know from his weekly column carried in The Onion AV Club Savage Love (not for the easily squeamish!)) says interesting things!
"What do you read in your spare time?
[Laughs.] National Review, The Weekly Standard, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The New Republic, The American Prospect, The New York Review of Books, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic Monthly. Those are my subscriptions right now. I'm a news and politics junkie.
It's a surprise to people sometimes when they ask me what I am reading and I hold up the National Review. I don't give a shit about Penthouse Letters. I would rather read the Misanthrope's Corner by Florence King, which is my favorite column. I think she rocks!
What political figure do you dislike most in America today?
Good lord. It's strange for a gay guy who was really politically active in the late '80s, early '90s to see how feeble Jesse Helms has become. I want to say George W. Bush. I hope he gets his ass handed to him in two years. But I'm all for the war, which puts me to the right almost as much as Ann Coulter. [Laughs.] When she said we should invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity, I'd been running around saying that we should invade the entire region and depose everybody. The woman who wrote the constitution for Japan, she's still alive. We should fly her into the Middle East, bang out 30 or 40 constitutions and then sit there for 50 fucking years, just like we sat there in Germany and Japan. We were sort of benign imperialists, and we should do that again. It would be the best thing that ever fucking happened to the Arabs!"
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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