Bobservations

The other morning I was in the back of the house doing some work on the computer when I heard Carlos in the laundry room and then a crash. I started to ask what had happened, but Carlos beat me to it.

“What fell?”

“Nothing back here. What happened in the laundry room?”

“Nothing, but I heard a crash.”

I met him in the hallway and he asked:

“Was it in the bedroom?”

“I don’t know. I wasn’t in the bedroom.”

“Was it in the bathroom?”

“I don’t know. I wasn’t in the bathroom.”

“Was it in the guestroom?”

I shrieked in my best Carol Burnett as Eunice voice:

“I WAS IN THE OFFICE!”

Carlos goes into our bathroom and into the closet all the while saying, “Was it in here? Was it in here?”

Sidenote: I went to the kitchen and saw the culprit: Ozzo. He loves to sneak cat food from their dishes the moment we leave the room and he got tangled up in the cord to the landline and pulled the phone off the counter.

Carlos is still searching the house for signs of a crash.

I can already picture Junior and The Dumb One sneaking onto the golf course at midnight to dig up Mommy because Daddy needs a few documents.

The authorities in Accra, Ghana are investigating after a man was mauled to death by a lion after climbing into a zoo enclosure. Authorities suspect he may have planned to steal two rare white lion cubs which have become a big draw since their birth last November and the cubs’ mother attacked him.

Sorry, not sorry.

Remember Brandy Bottone, the  pregnant Dallas woman who made headlines after arguing that she was allowed to drive in the HOV lane because under Texas’ new abortion law her unborn baby counted as the second passenger?

Her citation was dismissed. However, Bottone has since received a second ticket for the same offense at roughly the same location and she again maintains that, under the law, and the fact that her citation was dismissed meant she could use the HOV lane.

Brandy’s testing Texas and I am here for it.

In North Carolina, Jonathan Young, a former Sunday school teacher, was sentenced to 87 years in prison for abusing and sexually assaulting at least three young girls behind church walls and on church buses.

In Arkansas, Keenan Hord was arrested on a charge of sexual indecency with a child during his time as a youth pastor and faces charges that include sexual assault and possessing sexually explicit material involving a child; he’s accused of molesting over 30 boys.

In Tennessee, Jason Kennedy and Brittney Branham, the principal and secretary of the Liberty Christian School in Riceville were arrested and charged with improper sexual activity in front of an underage teen and former student at the pastor’s home.

But, again, tell me how Drag Queen Story Hours are damaging to children when it clearly looks like churches are so dangerous.

Best dressed at last weekend’s VMA’s was none other than Lil Nas X—AKA Montero—who wore a gorgeous Harris Reed look. Somewhere in  Malibu, Cher threw a teacup at the TV and screamed:

“Bitch stole my look.”

And he rocked it.

A Southwest Airlines pilot helming a flight to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, took to the plane’s intercom and threatened to return the aircraft to its departure gate at the airport if passengers didn’t stop sending nude photos to him via iPhone’s AirDrop feature.

Um, I need to see a phot of the pilot, and maybe some of the nudes, cuz I have my own nude selfies queued up and ready to go.

The ashes of Nichelle Nichols, AKA Lieutenant Nyota Uhura in the original Star Trek, will be sent into deep space on a rocket fittingly called the Vulcan Centaur, with the memorial spaceflight company, Celestis, running the “Enterprise Flight” mission.

Nichols’ son, Kyle Johnson, donated her ashes after she passed away in July. Nichols will be joined by the remains of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and his wife, Majel Barrett, who played nurse Christine Chapel in the series, and James Doohan, who played the Enterprise’s engineer, Scotty.

Fitting, no?

Caylan Hughes is a 36-year0old model, actor, personal trainer, nutritionist/dietician and Hot Ginger, but all that matters is: Would You Hit It?

I Didn't Say It

Pete Buttigieg, Secretary of Transportation, taking a moment from talking supply chain disruptions and infrastructure, to talk about the joy of being a new dad with his husband Chasten:

“It’s been wonderful. It’s everything people tell you to expect and more. I think the biggest thing that has surprised me is just how much joy there is even sometimes in the hard parts. It’s the most demanding thing I think I’ve ever done. I used to think of 5 a.m. as ‘early,’ now I think of it as ‘nap time,’ if I’m lucky. And yet I catch myself grinning half the time,. We’re just over the moon.”

Love.

Love Pete and Chasten, and Babies Buttigieg.

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Pope Francis, on the scale of child sexual abuse within the Catholic church in France:

“There is, unfortunately, a considerable number. I would like to express to the victims my sadness and pain for the trauma that they suffered. It is also my shame, our shame, my shame, for the incapacity of the church for too long to put them at the center of its concerns.”

Hey Frank? Shove your sadness and shame. I don’t think the more than 330,000 French children who were raped by Catholic priests and other church authority figures since 1950 want your shame and sadness.

They want their rapists punished and jailed, along with every member of your church who helped hide this sin.

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Lil Nas X, on how the success of Old Town Road gave him the push to come out:

“I don’t think I would have ever came out [but after Old Town Road hit] I honestly felt like it was kind of my duty. Especially if I wanted to move forward. And what I was doing, because authenticity is very real, and I feel like people can see right through that. And that’s a part of me. [But] I felt like [my insecurity with my sexuality] was my fear of people judging me for how I would act post-coming out. I used to ‘like’ comments where people were like, ‘Oh, I like him, because he’s not all in your face about it.’ And then I realized kind of what that was. It’s kind of like when people say, ‘Oh, I have a Black friend,’ and that kind of sits on everything that have to do with their Black history and culture, whatnot. I’m kind of like, I’m not that person, you know?”

This is gonna make me sound old, but that is one smart kid. He did a great service to young people of color by coming out.

We need more of that.

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Billie Eilish, trashing Texas lawmakers during a concert in Austin over the state’s new anti-choice law:

“My body, my fucking choice. When they made that shit a law, I almost didn’t want to do the show … because I wanted to punish this fucking place for allowing that to happen here. But then I remembered that it’s you guys that are the fucking victims, and you deserve everything in the world. And we need to tell them to shut the fuck up! Makes me sick how many men say nothing when it comes to women’s rights. If you and your ‘homies’ or bros’ aren’t talking about the abortion laws in Texas, chances are you’re part of a problem.”

Nice, I guess, but I wonder how much more effective her rant would be if she decided not to play in Texas and tell her fans it was because of the law and shew won’t play there until those who created it, and the law itself, are history.

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Lisa Boothe, Fox News host, on the news that Merck is seeking authorization for an oral COVID treatment.

“This is all such a scam. We could repurpose ivermectin for so cheap. None of this is about public health, it’s about cashing in or paying in favors for Big Pharma.”

Now, we all suspect these Fox “News” hosts are idiots and here we have actual proof, because Boothe is accusing Merck of trying to profit off COVID with their new drug and wants y’all to take the horse paste instead … which is made by Merck.

Do better, Lisa. I kid, cuz you can’t.

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Bobservations

We are headed out of town for a much-needed five-day weekend, spent with our friends, the former Round-The-Way-Gays Neal and David, who used to live in Smallville, but have retired to the mountains of North Carolina. It’s been nearly a year since we’ve seen them, thanks to COVID, and it’s been over a year since our last real getaway, so we are ready to be outta here.

Play nice. I shall return next week …

Carlos has been participating in Zoom calls these past few months on the subject of HIV/AIDS and the Hispanic community. These talks are with folks from all over South Carolina, which is divided into three geographic areas: the Upstate, the Midlands, and the Low Country—we live in the Midlands.

This morning Carlos was telling me about one of the people in the meeting from the Lower Country and I immediately envisioned an impoverished nation to the south.

That’s all.

Again, Tuxedo isn’t allowed to vote, but if he could, he clearly comes down on the other side of that party.

People toss around the word socialism like it’s some kind of horrible thing, but where has capitalism gotten us?

There are 15 million empty homes in this country, but homelessness is a huge issue.

We throw out millions of tons of food, while millions go hungry.

We cheer billionaires going into space while some of their worker pee in bottles because they don’t get breaks.

Capitalism ain’t so great, unless you’re the 1%.

If, today, you are unvaccinated, knowing that Fox News is vaccinated, Thing 45 is vaccinated, MTG and Boebert are vaccinated, but still think the vaccine is dangerous—or you’re gonna be microchipped—and knowing that some 99% of COVID deaths are unvaccinated people, and you still choose to be unvaccinated, then you get what you deserve.

Stupidity is a virus, too. 

The Value In Electing Women Political Action Committee has supported every GOP woman serving in the US House and Senate … until now. According to Julie Conway, VIEW PAC’s executive director , the PAC does not support Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert, and will would not endorse them in 2022:

“While we rightfully celebrate the number of GOP women serving in the House, I’ve always professed quality over quantity. The work of Congress is not a joke or reality show. Our women have fought too hard for too long to be respected and taken seriously as legislators, policy makers and thought leaders. We cannot let this work be erased by individuals who chose to be shameless self-promoters and carnival barkers.”

Carnival barker?!!?I love it; but she forgot traitors and morons.

Lil Nas X's same-sex kiss during a performance of 'Montero [Call Me By Your Name]' at last month's BET Awards has been widely celebrated as a powerful, authentic step forward for LGBTQ pop culture representation …sorry Madge. And, as happens, folks tend to get riled up and make phone calls and stomp their feet about gay folks kissin’ on TV.

But times have changed; it seems that just  three people wrote to the Federal Communications Commission [FCC] to express their outrage. Even then, one of the complaints one wasn't even about the kiss, but rather the performance's supposed 'Satanist' themes.

Adam Lambert—who sparked similar headlines, and greater outrage for a 2009 AMAs performance with a male-on-male kiss—said via Instagram:

"Two men kissing ain't indecent, explicit or inappropriate for children. The double standard is painfully clear. All the haters need to really get their heads around the concept of equality. He's clearly making a statement about it and making everyone talk. Pop Culture is being written."

Sad that it still needs to be written today, proving just how slow culture moves.

A federal judge has blocked a new law in Tennessee that required businesses and other entities that allow transgender people to use the public restroom that matches their gender to post a government-prescribed warning sign that trans people pee.

The lawsuit, filed on behalf of business owners Kye Sayers and Bob Bernstein who object to the hateful message, states that the law violates the First Amendment and asks the court for a preliminary injunction to stop enforcement of the law while the lawsuit proceeds.

And they did. Score one for equality.

Keep in mind that Flori-duh Governor, Ron DeSantis, allows for running down BLM protestors with your car if their protests block traffic, but if it’s Cubans protesting, you cannot run them over … because Cubans voted DeSantis and Black people did not.

Seriously.

This is Giacomo Cavalli. I know little about him other than that his name sounds Italian, and he is both adorable and hot.

And that he gives good face, looks good dressed, and looks good not so dressed. That’s all.

I Didn't Say It

Lil Nas X, addressing homophobic comments about his same-sex kiss on the BET Awards:

“y’all hate yourselves so much. y’all live your lives trying your best to appease straight ppl. y’all are uncomfortable with what i do because y’all are afraid they will be uncomfortable with you. work on yourselves, i love who i am and whatever i decide to do. get there … i still have a long way to go. i’ve never denied that. when you’re conditioned by society to hate yourself your entire life it takes a lot of unlearning. which is exactly why i do what i do.”

That was everything.

Get there.

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William Barr, former Thing 45 Attorney General, on the loser’s claims of voter fraud:

“If there was evidence of fraud, I had no motive to suppress it. But my suspicion all the way along was that there was nothing there. It was all bullshit.”

And yet it took you eight months to say it publicly?

Fuck off Billy, you’ll be remembered as a traitor to this country.

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Adam Kinzinger, Illinois GOP Congressman, on Thing 45’s rally:

“They really truly believe that [the twice-impeached, one-term loser] was elected president again. What you saw yesterday was a recycling of all his old talking points. It was a rally of a loser president. He’s the first president to lose re-election in decades. And I don’t know why these folks would go there and just sort of worship a loser. They did.”

And they continue to because they are sheep wo believe conspiracy theories and lies.

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Mitt Romney, Utah GOP Senator,  showing support for investigating the 1/6/2021 insurrection:

“Here in the U.S., there’s a growing recognition that this is a bit like WWF [World Wrestling Federation], that it’s entertaining, but it’s not real. And I know people want to say yeah, they believe in the big lie in some cases, but I think people recognize that it’s a lot of show and—and bombast, but it’s going nowhere. The election is over. It was, it was fair. [The Big Lie is] … should never happen again and any effort to understand why it happened is in, my opinion, appropriate."

And to be fair, since the GOP wants to suggest it was antifa and BLM and the FBI, all organizations or movements they loathe, wouldn’t they want an investigation.

Cuz, you know, it looks like they’re a bunch of goose-stepping traitors.

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Michael Fanone, DC Metropolitan Police Officer, injured at the January insurrection, talking about his conversation with GQP goose-stepper Kevin McCarthy:

“I asked [McCarthy] specifically for a commitment to denounce [those Big Lie comments] publicly, and he said that he would address it at a personal level with some of those members. But again, I think that as a leader of the House Republican Party, it’s important to hear those denouncements publicly.”

Fanone says that, in his mind, McCarthy didn’t agree to any of his requests.

But Kevin McCarthy puts himself, Thing 45, The Big Lie, and the GQP, over this country.

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Kataluna Enriquez, healthcare administrator, fashion designer, LGBTQ advocate and out trans woman of color, on being crowned Miss Nevada USA:

“Huge thank you to everyone who supported me from day one. With pageantry, people think it is only about beauty. But it’s how you present yourself, what you advocate for, what you’ve done and the goals you have. I didn’t realize we won on the 52nd anniversary of Stonewall. I wouldn’t be able to stand without the voices of those who fought for my rights and against police brutality. My community, you are always in my heart. My win is our win. We just made history. Happy pride.”

Her win cements her spot as Nevada’s representative in the Miss USA pageant later this year, making her the first out trans woman to compete in the event’s history.

Congratulations Kataluna!

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I Didn't Say It

Billy Porter, on how he feels after revealing he is HIV+:

“I’ve been positive since 2007. And, you know, having lived through the AIDS crisis, it was heavy for me. It was a heavy year, 2007. “ I have to start in 2007. In June of that year, I was diagnosed HIV-positive. Having lived through the plague, my question was always, ‘Why was I spared? Why am I living?’ Well, I’m living so that I can tell the story. There’s a whole generation that was here, and I stand on their shoulders. I can be who I am in this space, at this time, because of the legacy that they left for me. So it’s time to put my big boy pants on and talk. I was the generation that was supposed to know better, and it happened anyway. It was 2007, the worst year of my life. “I was on the precipice of obscurity for about a decade or so, but 2007 was the worst of it. By February, I had been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. By March, I signed bankruptcy papers. And by June, I was diagnosed HIV-positive. The shame of that time compounded with the shame that had already [accumulated] in my life silenced me, and I have lived with that shame in silence for 14 years. I lived with the shame of it for a really long time and last week I released that shame, I released that trauma and I am a free man, honey! Free! I’ve never felt joy like this before. And, you know, we talk about it in the Black church. You know, this joy that I have—the world didn’t give and the world can’t take it away. I got it. I got some joy now. It really feels good, it really feels great.”

Once again, this proves that Silence = Death; that we are only as sick as our secrets, and we need not feel shame for a health condition, no matter what.

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Lil Nas X, honoring Sir Elton John with the Icon Award at the iHeartRadio Music Awards:

“To me, he’s a trailblazer who paved the way for people to live their lives freely and unapologetically. He’s inspired me and so many other people by just being himself, being larger than life, flashy and fearless, especially when he’s in front of that piano. On behalf of all the people around the world you have inspired, Thank you. Even if you didn’t need to be a role model, you are.”

And now Lil Nas is doing that same thing for the next generation of LGBTQ+ artists, especially those of color, who didn’t know before him that they could be out and loud and proud and successful.

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Andrew Wommack, faux-Christian, on putting a warning label on The Gays:

“Homosexuals have like a three times as much suicide [rate] as heterosexuals. And then you go into transgender and it just continues to go up. It’s a very destructive lifestyle. It’s 20 years less that a homosexual lives than a heterosexual. And you know, cigarettes take an average of seven years off your life. So homosexuality is three times worse than smoking. We outta put a label across their forehead, ‘this can be hazardous to your health.'”

First off, you dimwitted dumb fuck, if we die early because we’re gay who does the warning label help?

And if warning labels did help, perhaps God should slap one on your face as being a hypocrite and a liar and all kinds of stupid, and for spreading hate; all things far more dangerous that being gay.

Of note: Wommack claims to have he prayed away “the curse of mildew.” He says Jesus protects Christians from COVID by “turning off your virus receptors” and yet dozens of Wommack’s followers became infected with COVID at one of his own Bible retreats.

Lastly, Andrew Wommack says he knows COVID is “no big deal” because his wife and son were “raised from the dead.” But they are clearly brain dead.

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Kirstie Alley, Scientology loon and has-been actress, saying depression is not a mental illness:

“You aren’t really allowed to say this in the very liberal community because they think what you’re saying is stigmatizing mental illness. Well, this is what I’m here to say — I don’t think you’re mentally ill if you’re depressed. You know people say to me, ‘Well, you’re a Scientologist.’ I feel lucky that I’m a Scientologist. Because in Scientology what you do is you find out why you’re so screwed up. And you find out why are you depressed, there’s a reason people are depressed. The reason I don’t go to a psychiatrist is because in their bag are the drugs, that’s the main way they treat people.”

So, she uses Scientology as a psychiatrist but thinks psychiatry is a sham?

Kirstie needs to lay off the junk food because it’s rotted the part of her brain that Scientology hasn’t already ruined.

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Elliot Page, previously known as Ellen before coming out as transgender, on adopting a male identity at a very young age:

“All trans people are so different, and my story’s absolutely just my story. But yes, when I was a little kid, absolutely, 100%, I was a boy. I knew I was a boy when I was a toddler. I was writing fake love letters and signing them ‘Jason.’ Every little aspect of my life, that is who I was, who I am, and who I knew myself to be. I just couldn’t understand when I’d be told, ‘No, you’re not. No, you can’t be that when you’re older. You feel it. Now I’m finally getting myself back to feeling like who I am, and it’s so beautiful and extraordinary, and there’s a grief to it in a way. The most significant difference is that I’m really able to just exist. Just exist by myself, like be able to sit with myself. Not have some constant distraction, all these things that aren’t conscious or aren’t even overly overt. For the first time in, I don’t even know how long, [I am] really just being able to sit by myself, be on my own, be productive, and be creative. It’s such an oversimplification to say it this way, but I’m comfortable. I feel a significant difference in my ability to just exist—and not even just day to day, but moment to moment. This is the first time I’ve even felt really present with people, that I can be just really relaxed and not have an anxiety that’s always pulling. In terms of acting, I don’t think I quite know yet. I am just a lot more f****** comfortable and present, so it’s hard to imagine that that’s not affecting the work, because, really, being present’s ultimately what you’re going for—you’re just ultimately trying to crack open and be present and connect to the truth of a moment. So I’m imagining the more I get to embody who I am and exist in the body I want to exist in, there’ll be a difference.”

So many of us go into life and through life knowing who we are, even if we have to come to terms with it because it may not be the “norm,” but imagine a young trans kid? That’s a struggle for acceptance, not only from your friends and family and the world, but from yourself.

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Busy Philipps, actress, on teaching her mother about different pronouns after revealing her own daughter is non-binary:

“[My] mom is older and wants to understand the pronoun conversation more. I said to my mother, Here’s the deal: You don’t have to understand it.’ That’s how I feel about all human rights—you don’t have to understand it. You can choose to believe what you want, but you don’t get to have jurisdiction over anyone else’s body or belief system.”

You don’t have to understand why anyone would use they/them as their pronouns, but you cannot deny them their choices.

I mean, what does it hurt to use they/them? Who does it hurt? But then who does it hurt when you don’t?

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Bobservations

Carlos and I rarely fight. Oh, we have disagreements and discussions, but they hardly ever escalate into some sort of yelling kinda thing; we generally agree on most things, and those that we don’t, well, in the end, he does it my way. I kid; we just compromise. But … after his recent hernia surgery, I  made it clear he wasn’t to lift anything, and that included dogs and cats; he even slept in the guest room, door closed, to keep the cats from jumping on him.

We had his follow-up appointment with the surgeon last week, who was pleased with Carlos’ progress and happy he had very little pain. He gave the ‘OK’ for Carlos to resume playing the trumpet but cautioned him against lifting anything over twenty pounds for the next month or so.

And that’s the rub … we did the groceries and he tried to carry the bags. I reminded him that I would be carrying the bags, and once we got home, he could put things away. We went to CostCo and, again, he tried lifting a box filled with groceries and again I reminded him that I would be carry the boxes and once we got home, he could put things away. We also bought dog food—a fifty-pound bag because it was the only one they had—and AGAIN he tried to lift the bag and yada yada yada … We left the bag in the car because it was too big for the Pet Food Cupboard™, but on Sunday, I heard him in the garage, in the car, opening the back, and then coming inside.

He is NOT carrying that dog food, I thought. And then I heard the bag open and heard the contents being emptied into another container for storage and I went mad. But I held it in. I calmly did my thing. I went into the kitchen to fix dinner and when he came in, I got mad all over again, and  to cover my anger I threw a spoon into the sink from across the room.

“Is something wrong?” He said oh … so … sweetly.

5 … 4… 3 … 2 … 1

"QUIT FUCKING LIFTING THINGS! THE DOCTOR TOLD YOU NOT TO LIFT ANYTHING, AND I’VE TOLD YOU TO LET ME DO IT AND YOU WON’T LISTEN. STOP PICKING STUFF UP!!”

“But I feel—”

“NO ONE CARES HOW YOU FEEL! YOU’RE NOT A DOCTOR! I DON’T WANT YOU TO HAVE TO UNDERGO SURGERY AGAIN JUST BECAUSE YOU THINK YOU’RE SMARTER THAMN A DOCTOR. YOU’RE NOT.

“STOP.LIFTING.THINGS.”

Then I asked if he wanted chopped scallions on his soup, because once the rage was released, I was in a good mood.

Carlos, on the other hand, hasn’t lifted another thing.

A Straight Pride group held their event in Dallas over the weekend and … three people showed up.

So, either there are only three straight people in Dallas, or the people of Dallas see a ridiculous stunt when it advertises on Facebook. Which was where the anti-LGBTQ Straight Pride group Protecting Our Next Generations [PONG] promised to discuss abortion [hint: it’s murder], marriage values [hint: Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve or Madam and Eve] and genders [hint: there are just two].

PS Two of the men that showed up were from Boston and the third was a Proud Boy from Hateville, USA, so not a single person living in Dallas stopped by.

Go figure.

Speaking of dumb homophobes, a _____ supporter in Minneapolis left an ignorant comment about a  gay bar after _____ held a rally in that city last month, and her ignorance went viral.

The gay bar in question, the Saloon nightclub, protested BLOTUS by flying the giant _____ baby balloon from its rooftop and this irritated _____ supporters so much that one, Pamela Ogletree, took to Twitter to proclaim that Saloon would no longer be getting her business.

A commenter asked: “Were you a frequent visitor??”

And one finally told her: “Cuz it’s a gay bar, Pamela.”

And suddenly a meme was born; one person turned the phrase, “It’s a gay bar, Pamela,” into a rainbow-colored enamel pin—it’s available for $10 with 50% of proceeds going to Out Front Minnesota, the state’s leading LGBTQ organization. T-shirts were made; signs posted; Tweets sent out.

“It’s a gay bar, Pamela” is the new “That’s so dumb.”

Pamela Ogletree has not responded to media requests seeking to understand how long she’d patronized the Saloon before it “lost her business.”

Deplorables are dumb.

Last Summer _____ said he would be pursuing gun control measures after a series of shootings in El Paso and Dayton. This fall he quietly dropped the plan because he was told it would hurt his election chances.

Earlier this Fall, he said he would meet with representatives of the vaping industry to try and stem the deaths from vaping. Now he’s shelved those plans, too, because, again,it would hurt his election chances.

Plainly: _____ wants guns and vaping to continue no matter how many are injured or killed because his winning reelection is more important than human life,

That’s all.

Last week, Lil Nas X became the first out gay musician, and rapper, to take home a Country Music Association Award when he and collaborator Billy Ray Cyrus won the “Musical Event of the Year” trophy for the remix of “Old Town Road,” which spent an unprecedented 20 weeks at # 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. They beat out the duo of Brooks & Dunn, the duo of Garth Brooks and Blake Shelton, and the group of Maren Morris and the Brothers Osborne.

Although Lil Nas X is the first gay musician to win a CMA for his own song, it isn’t the first time the show has handed out an award to an LGBTQ+ person. Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally both won for co-writing Kacey Musgraves’ LGBTQ+ anthem “Follow Your Arrow” in 2014. 

Still ….

Jon Bon Jovi is hot; younger and older; hot and hot. And compassionate.

Bon Jovi dedicated his newest song “Unbroken” to honor veterans suffering Post Traumatic Stress Disorder [PTSD]), but he also, through his JBJ Soul Foundation, donated $500,000 to help build the Walter Reed facility in Washington DC for the homeless veterans.

The new facility expects 300 residents and offers a small gym, a courtyard, and a computer room. Residents can use the lounge as a meeting place among the occupants or when their family somes for a visit.

In another effort to help support veterans suffering from PTSD, all the proceeds from Bon Jovi’s song “Unbroken” will be donated to the Patriotic Service Dog Foundation, where veterans and first responders get to be paired with service dogs.

Jon Bon Jovi also owns and runs two Soul Kitchen restaurants in New Jersey where people in need can get a meal, and pay only what they can afford.

Hot, and compassionate.

Less hot, and less compassionate, and entirely full of crap, Dave Cathy’s Christian-owned Chick-fil-A has promised to stop giving to anti-LGBTQ charities, a vow it has made at least once before, and broken.

Don’t hold your breath, and don’t eat their crap chicken.

And finally, Isaac Churchill.

I don’t know much about him except that he’s a dreamy model with luscious hair …and lips, and really doesn’t mind taking his clothes off.

Oh, and I believe he lives in Milan. Dreamy.