Global Eye By Chris Floyd - Published: March 4, 2005

Sex, sex, sex -- how it haunts the damp and fervid dreams of the Bushist Party faithful. And nowhere more so than in the depths of Dixie, where stout Christian soldiers were singing hosannas last week after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld their righteous warfare against the foulest form of evil in the modern world:

Genital stimulators.

After prayerful consideration, the Supremes refused to hear challenges to an Alabama law that forbids the sale or distribution of "any device designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs," Reuters reports. The law was aimed not only at public vendors of sexual enhancement but also at the growing number of private "Tupperware-style parties," where suburbanites gather to peruse the latest marriage-goosing gadgets.

The bedroom farce in Alabama -- sweaty-palmed pols in a tizzy over vibrators -- may be an amusing bit of provincial comedy. But it masks a sinister tragedy of global proportions.

http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/03/04/120.html

of this insanity.

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This is all of a piece with Bush's savage elimination of U.S. funding for women's health clinics in the poorest regions on earth. For want of this indispensable American aid -- mere pittances that wouldn't fund a single hour of Bush's rape of Iraq -- clinic after clinic has been forced to close, destroying the only source of medical treatment and reproductive health care for the most vulnerable women in the world. It has been a literal death sentence for thousands of women -- and their infants -- in the past four years: a silent holocaust created at the stroke of Bush's pen.

The bedroom farce in Alabama -- sweaty-palmed pols in a tizzy over vibrators -- may be an amusing bit of provincial comedy. But it masks a sinister tragedy of global proportions
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Welcome to the good ol' U S of A, soon to be bad joke fodder clear into the farthest reaches of the galaxy.