SemiConscious Dot Org

Ok, so maybe I’m the only one speaking about it.

Except for (surprise, surprise!) a Republican congressman:

Concerned that the military is selling pornography in exchange stores in spite of a ban, one lawmaker has introduced a bill to clean up the matter.

“Our troops should not see their honor sullied so that the moguls behind magazines like Playboy and Penthouse can profit,” said Rep. Paul Broun, R-Ga., unveiling his House bill April 16.

His Military Honor and Decency Act would amend a provision of the 1997 Defense Authorization Act that banned sales of “sexually explicit material” on military bases.

The new language would “close existing loopholes” in regulations to bring the military “into compliance with the intent of the 1997 law,” Broun said.

“Allowing sale of pornography on military bases has harmed military men and women by escalating the number of violent, sexual crimes, feeding a base addiction, eroding the family as the primary building block of society, and denigrating the moral standing of our troops both here and abroad,” Broun said.

Broun said he wants to bring the Defense Department into compliance with the intent of the 1997 law “so that taxpayers will not be footing the costs of distributing pornography.”

Exchange officials noted that tax dollars are not used to procure magazines in the system’s largely self-funded operations.

But Broun’s spokesman John Kennedy contended that taxpayer dollars are involved — “used to pay military salaries, so taxpayer money is, in effect, being used to buy these materials,” he said.

(link via TBogg)

I suppose it would be redundant of me to point out the unmitigated lunacy of a political party which believes that torturing prisoners doesn’t sully the troops’ honor and denigrate their moral standing, but looking at skin mags does. So I won’t point that out.

Instead let’s tackle the bigger issue here: why are Republicans so COMPLETELY, UTTERLY FULL OF SHIT? Why does every self-appointed Republican moral guardian eventually end up sending lewd emails to his underage staffers, writing about sex with falafels, heading to the Caribbean for a weekend of Viagra n’ jailbait, or striking a “wide stance” in a public men’s room? Given the proven track record of his peers and hysterical tone of Rep. Broun’s moral outrage, I fully expect him to eventually be found hogtied in a wetsuit with foreign objects shoved up his you-know-where.

Whoops, looks like another Republican beat him to it.

Huh huh. I said “beat.” Huh huh huh huh huh…