A Spork in the Drawer

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Art appreciation:

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Teh Gay

Tony Norman:

"The Ohio Air Force lab proposed that a bomb be developed that contained a chemical that would cause enemy soldiers to become gay, and to have their units break down because all their soldiers became irresistibly attractive to one another," Edward Hammond of the Sunshine Project told a CBS affiliate in San Francisco.

The BBC first reported the story in 2005, including the Pentagon's decision to decline funding the research for the so-called "gay bomb." Larry Arnstein, a blogger on The Huffington Post, resurrected it last week on a whim, launching it into the mainstream.

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Now, consider this: The U.S. military routinely dismisses highly trained linguists under "don't ask, don't tell" despite a severe shortage of capable Arab speakers.

What if a series of gay bombs exploded in American barracks in Baghdad? Given the military's zero tolerance for gays regardless of their strategic value to the war, how long would it take before whole units are "redeployed" stateside because of excessive, um, fraternizing?

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Right-wing preachers aren't going to appreciate the breakdown in heterosexual orientation the returning soldiers represent.

Having already served their country fighting in the real hell and not the mythological one dreamed up during the Middle Ages, the brave men and women of the U.S. military won't have to worry about going back to the only hell they've ever known.

Left out of this is the little known fact that the UK's Royal Army tested an early version of this "gay bomb" decades ago:

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The Bishop!

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