Dickie's Quickies

Mark Morford was a Boy Scout in Spokane when Jim West was a Scout leader. His column in SFGate today (linked above) has an interesting perspective on the topic of Spokane's embattled mayor.

While we're on the subject of things queer, Michael Bérubé has a rather funny, satirical column on the Bush plan for Social Security: ban the homosexuals...um...unless they're Republican.

“President Bush has always believed that gay sperm are a threat to the American
family,” he said in today’s press briefing. “Now we’re prepared to show
that gay men are a threat to the solvency of Social Security as well.
Without progressive indexing for gay sex, Social Security will collapse.”

Following up on the Messiahbomb report from yesterday anus bleaching, there are two other new trends for the fashion/sex obsessed: G-Spot Surgery (scroll down) and injecting your penis with olive oil (not recommended).

Bruce Schneier has an interview with Security Focus news on the current state of cryptography.