On December 21, 1970, Elvis Presley, loaded on several prescription narcotics, paid a visit to President Richard M. Nixon at the White House in Washington, D.C. The meeting was initiated by Presley, who wrote Nixon a six-page letter requesting a visit with the President and suggesting that he be made a "Federal Agent-at-Large" in the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs.
Nixon, who set the FBI on John Lennon at one point, of course, thought it offered great PR opportunities. And thus the great meeting came to pass.

And then, on August 16, 1977, the King was dead from heart arrest, brought on by obesity and a monumental drug habit. I was working at the Record Factory, a record store in Colma, just south of San Francisco, at the time. The day after the King died, there was a crowd of about thirty people out in front of the store before we opened.

And, not to be outdone, I have created a new strip, to which I will be adding frequently in the days and weeks months and years to come, I am sure, entitled "The Most Beautiful Day In The History of the World."

Another family-values Republican exposed as being homosexual. Will it never end? 

Attention gentle Christians: ALL OF YOUR REPUBLICAN AND RELIGIOUS LEADERS ARE g-a-y, gay, GAY, GAY!!!
At least our queens are upfront about it. Vote Democratic!

Glenn Murphy, Jr., in the upper left of this picture, the recently elected chairman of the Young Republican National Federation (also the RNC Chair for Clark County, Indiana and formerly the YRNF Secretary) has been accused of sexually assaulting a sleeping man. Immediately following the accusation, he came up with an unrelated reason to resign, and the YRNF cleansed their website of his name.

Allegedly, Murphy and another YR were drunk and crashing at Murphy's sister's house. The other man apparently awoke in the morning to find Murphy giving him a non-consensual blow job. The Clark County (Indiana) Sheriff's Department is charging Murphy with "criminal deviate conduct", a Class B felony.

Taking Down Words, an Indiana blog, has been following this guy for some time. And guess what? Apparently this isn't the first time his mouth has ended up on someone's privates while they were asleep. Glenn Murphy has a prior arrest for sexual battery. Here's the 1998 Clark County police report. A snippet, for your entertainment. 

Be sure to click on the links. Apparently, the Young Republicans are scrubbing the site of any reference to him. Just like when male prostitute Jeff Gannon was hired by the right-wing Texas website Talon News Services to sit in the White House steno, I mean, press pool. (click on read more for answers)

 
Claude Michel Celse, Seaside Town, 1948

the reason that I am alive

By Boris Vian

the reason that I am alive
the reason that I am alive
for the tanned leg
of a blonde woman
propped against the wall
beneath the round sun
for the billowing sails
of a sleek schooner
at the mouth of the harbor
the iced coffee sipped through a straw
for the caress of sand
gazing at the watery deeps
turning so blue
descending into the deeps
with the fish
the tranquil fish
they calm the bottom of the ocean
fly above the seaweed hair
like slow birds
like blue birds
the reason that I am alive
because it is beautiful

Translated from the French by Joseph Suglia, corrected by me.