It’s time to play: “What’s the most disturbing thing ever?”

Here are today’s deeply unsettling choices:
a) “Sesame Street” teaming up with the US Department of Homeland Security to teach children about terrorist attacks (introducing cute new character GuantanElmo!)
b) Margaret Cho’s sexual fantasies about Sarah Palin (Two words: Alaskan pussy)
c) This comment from actor Josh Brolin: “My dad is probably one of the handsomest guys ever. I was making a joke and I said, ‘If I was a chick, I’d fuck you!'”
d) Stephen Harper being all cuddly in his campaign ads

e) This conversation from the cheerfully offensive sitcom “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia“:

Cheers to Belgium! Not only do they have a national ad for a teen sex education website, it’s pretty funny too!

Is there anything Islamic fundamentalists don’t hate? Now they’ve declared a fatwa on Mickey Mouse, saying he’s “an agent of Satan sent to corrupt young minds.” Mind you, it is Disney they’re talking about — maybe they meant to say Hannah Montana!

A new study shows that “homonegativity” within gay men leads to depression and poor sexual health. Anyone suffering from such an affliction should watch this video of Brazilian men modeling swimsuits to a Kylie Minogue song — it’s like a gay booster shot!

 

A former editor of the late, lamented fab magazine, Scott has been writing for Xtra since 2007 on a variety of topics in news pieces, interviews, blogs, reviews and humour pieces. He lives on the Danforth with his boyfriend of 12 years, a manic Jack Russell Terrier, a well-stocked mini-bar and a shelf of toy Daleks.

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