How's "anachronistic has-been"?

When I wrote this, I predicted it, so it's no surprise.

Revealing himself to be an anachronistic has-been, David Letterman called Thomas Beatie "an androgynous freak."

Not funny, I say. You be the judge.



I think it's revealing that Letterman (at least in this clip) didn't use Beatie's name. To use it would have been to have to recognize him as a human being, not a "freak show."


In a few years, such "humor" will be as revealing of the bigotry of today as phrenology is in 2008.

Okay, I know "anachronistic has-been" is a bit redundant, but most name-calling attempts to achieve its power through repetition.

Which goes to show that Letterman sees androgyny as freakish. Funny, I think it's sexy.

In the meantime, Oprah has announced that Beatie will a guest on her show tomorrow.

Hot Oprah Day

My sister alerted me that Michael Moore was going to be on Oprah today, so after I took Mom to her doctor's appointment, we watched it together. Moore was great. He kept hammering home that it's absurd that our medical system is for-profit because it benefits financially from withholding and denying treatment.

Following Moore, Oprah interviewed Cormac McCarthy. I'm sure McCarthy aficionados were squirming on their couches, watching their idol demean himself by appearing on a popular TV show--no, this popular TV show. Those aficionados need to get over themselves because obviously McCarthy thought he'd be getting something out of it (like the book sales he feigns disinterest in). And now Oprah's ubiquitous sticker now adorns paperback copies of The Road.

And her summer reading pick? Jeffrey Eugenedies' Middlesex. (A great read.)


I bet Jonthan Franzen is kicking himself.