It's a Mad Mad World

Tempers flared recently in the Dail when politician Paul Gogarty of the Green Party hurled what was deemed "unparliamentary language" at Labor TD Emmit Stagg.

"Fuck you Deputy Stagg. Fuck You."

This has been written about, talked about and even made into a music remix. What the Irish papers have failed to mention, and what boils down to them as having little or no sense of humor whatsoever, is the following (and this is TRUE):

Paul Gogarty, married with two kids, once admitted in an interview to being what he considered 25% gay. He also watched copious amounts of gay porn as a teenager in order to convince himself that he was in fact, definitely not gay. "It did nothing for me," he admitted. All that gay porn he watched, not a thing apparently.

and...

Emmit Stagg, also married with two kids found himself in 1994 actively managing to convince a police officer while sitting in a car at night, with a rent boy, parked in Phoenix Park's notorious rent boy pick up location that he was, in fact, not remotely gay at all either.

Emmit Stagg managing to convince not only himself but a trained member of the Irish police force (while sitting in a car beside a rent boy) that he was not gay reminds me of the time my brother, after burning down the sitting room of our house, managed to convince the firebrigade (cigarette lighter in hand) that the fire started by itself. Apparently, according to my brother, it was the "power of the sun" coming through the window and igniting the papas grass displayed by my mother behind the thick felt curtains in the darkest corner of the room. Case closed, thank you for your time.

Anyway, it would seem that these two self convinced non-homosexuals would have a lot more in common if they just sat down and got to know each other a little better. They could have long conversations over coffee of how not gay they are. Similar to the way unfulfilled and deeply unhappy people talk about things and stuff they own like plasma screen TV's, the type of car they drive or how their empty meaningless job title has more letters in it than yours. Y'know, middle class stuff.

All this of course really has nothing to do with any person's sexuality. I just wanted to inadvertently illustrate the madness of it all. Oh, and Ireland is going bankrupt and the entire situation was caused by, and is currently being "fixed" by.... these guys!

While Labor didn't get us into this mess, I know they didn't NOT get us into it either. They can say all they want now, they didn't say it before.

I'm not feeling too optimistic about the whole thing really.