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A recent issue of the Seattle Gay News arrived on Dawn's desk last month. Therein was found a letter "appalled" at the TV show "South Park." Penned by an evidently humorless lesbian (a thriving breed), the letter took exception to an episode in which Subway diet guru "Jared" (you know, the fat guy who slimmed down eating nothing but Subway sandwiches) is exposed as a fraud for not having lost the weight on his own. Jared confesses to having employed "aides" to help him, and preaches that he "only lost weight because he had aides." Jared then launches a drive to make sure "every underprivileged boy and girl gets aides," even announcing plans to start a foundation "so everyone can get aides!" The HL then goes on to urge a boycott of "South Park" and its merchandising, blah blah blah.

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Dawn was reminded of a benefit performance some years back by Big Ed whose trademark was an outlandishly oversized cowboy hat. Part of BE's shtick was razzing black audience members, expressing concern that they not be allowed back stage unescorted lest his valuables disappear from his dressing room. The joke was on those who equated "black" with "thief" (he clearly wasn't serious), but the stage was stormed by a lick of lesbians (all white...) out to "protect" the audience from such "vile racism." Dawn heard one of the dour sisters murmur before interrupting the act that the world needed more "lesbian ernst." Though unable to locate the term in any dictionary, Dawn is absolutely certain that "lesbian ernst" is something we most definitely do not need more of....