{"id":65028,"date":"2015-03-05T11:53:21","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T19:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=65028"},"modified":"2015-03-05T14:47:10","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T22:47:10","slug":"the-sodomizing-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=65028","title":{"rendered":"The Sodomizing Of America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lisa Schiffren writes: &#8220;It is precisely this sort of <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/03\/05\/style\/taxi-flings-take-a-backseat-to-uber.html?smid=fb-share\">tawdry, &#8220;knowing&#8221; faux sophisticated sex trash<\/a> that is sinking the New York Times, week by week. This is the &#8216;gay sensibity&#8217; normal people, including normal gay people, dislike having to come up against while trying to read a newspaper. You know what is hot? Mystery. Keeping your sex life to yourself. Screwing in cabs is for people too poor to afford their own apartments.<br \/>\nLast week the Times dropped the Housing section. Hope Style is next.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chaim Amalek: &#8220;Once Islam takes over America, such silly articles will be a thing of the past, and we will instead consider the arrival of gender-specific cab services.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lisa Schiffren writes: &#8220;It is precisely this sort of tawdry, &#8220;knowing&#8221; faux sophisticated sex trash that is sinking the New York Times, week by week. 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