I think these statements on desperate Madonna/Britney/Christina snog sum it and the whole tATu lesbo-marketing thing up for me: “”If it’s just about marketing and titillating a male audience, then that’s not really advancing anyone’s cause… it cheapens us a bit. One of the issues our community constantly faces is that the media only focuses on the saucy, sleazy aspects of our community””. And of course it’s about marketing and titillating a male audience.
“Victorian Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby incumbent co-convenor David McCarthy is also ambivalent about homosexuality’s new-found fashion status and the subsequent impression that being gay is a “lifestyle choice” – that Madonna can passionately kiss another woman, then go home to the husband and kids. “That’s just crap,” he says. “No one would actually choose it. The reality of our everyday lives is that we face discrimination – financially, emotionally, personally… if they realised what it was really like (to be gay), perhaps they would not make such light of it.”” (Age)

That’s it, I’m not eating cod any more. I know it’s not going to make much difference, but if we all stop eating cod, it might: “The number of cod in the North Sea has fallen to a critical low point, a senior fisheries scientist says.” (BBC)
And sod the ‘Cod Crusaders’. They have won’t jobs in a few years anyway if they keeping fishing they way they are.

A man came round in hospital after a serious accident. He shouted, “Doctor, doctor, I can’t feel my legs!” The doctor replied, “I know you can’t, I’ve cut your arms off”.
See you in five days, unless I post from a net cafe!