In the early afternoon yesterday, I got an email from a friend that Lance Bass, of N’Sync, came out as gay. I’ve figured as much since the late 1990’s so, for once, it appears that my gaydar was actually\u00a0working (I was hoping the gay one would have been his bandmate, Joey Fatone…but that’s a whole other blog post). Anyway, shortly thereafter I saw photos and the Associated Press article in Yahoo! News, Boston Globe Online, CNN.com, and even FoxNews websites.<\/p>\n
I got home from work and it was announced on the 4-6:30PM news (Site note: do we need so many hours of news per day – even on the networks?).<\/p>\n
Then\u00a0on the 10:00PM news there was a tiny blurb on an Avian Flu vaccine that seems to be effective in 80% of participants. It could be available by 2007 and eliminate the feared pandemic that would be comparable to the last catastrophic one in 1916 (or some such year).<\/p>\n
Yet, once again, the priority news item of the day appeared to be the same-sex dating habits of a singer (who hasn’t even really produced anything in the past 3 years).<\/p>\n
Don’t get me wrong – I have nothing against Mr. Bass. And I find it absurd that his little trip to Provincetown with his boyfriend resulted in such blog\/media scandal (he was seen at the A-house\u00a0– oh my!)<\/p>\n
HMM – maybe this heat\/humidity has made me cranky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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