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When U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston, R-1, agreed to be on a Comedy Central news satire program, he knew he would probably come out looking silly. What he didn't realize, however, was that he would come out as an African-American. Kingston appeared Tuesday night in a recorded segment of "The Colbert Report," a spin-off of "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," that debuted Monday night on Comedy Central. The show is a parody of pundit shows like "The O'Reilly Factor" and "Hannity and Colmes." Hosted by "Daily Show" veteran Stephen Colbert, the show's guests range from politicians to national journalists, with...

IOWA CITY, Iowa -- The pink visitors' locker room at the University of Iowa's stadium is making some people see red. The locker room for visiting football teams at Iowa is pretty in pink. Several professors and students joined the call Tuesday for the athletic department to do away with the pink showers, carpeting and lockers, a decades-long Hawkeye football tradition. Critics say the use of pink demeans women, perpetuates offensive stereotypes about women and homosexuality, and puts the university in the uncomfortable position of tacitly supporting those messages. ''I want the locker room gone,'' law school professor Jill Gaulding...

Professor Says Pink Locker Room Promotes Sexism, Homophobia U Of I Professor Challenges Iowa's Compliance With NCAA POSTED: 10:44 am CDT September 23, 2005 UPDATED: 11:05 am CDT September 23, 2005 IOWA CITY, Iowa -- A University of Iowa law professor said the school is promoting homophobia and will challenge whether Iowa is violating NCAA rules by painting a visitors' locker room pink. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Discuss: Iowa Sports -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Erin Buzuvis moved to Iowa from Boston in the fall and discovered the visiting team's locker room at Kinnick Stadium was pink -- something she said promotes sexism and homophobia. But officials...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The San Francisco 49ers are teaming up with the city's Human Rights Commission to improve their diversity and anti-harassment training in response to the release of an offensive video made by the team's former public relations director. The 15-minute film provided anonymously last week to the San Francisco Chronicle features racist jokes, lesbian soft-porn and topless blondes - and even former PR director Kirk Reynolds impersonating San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom officiating at a mock lesbian wedding. "While we believed that we had a good diversity awareness program that reached each and every person in this...

Eagleville High School Valedictorian Abe Stoklasa said all he wanted to do was give a memorable speech, but what he thought was funny, school leaders considered offensive. In his speech, Stoklasa planned to say, “You have given us the minimum required attention and education to master any station at any McDonald’s anywhere. For that we thank you. Of course, I’m only kidding. Eagleville is a fine institute of higher learning, with superb faculty and staff.” He said all of the jokes were simply segues to build up the school with compliments. But those in attendance at Eagleville’s graduation ceremony never...

A word of caution for Laura Bush. Make sure the mike is off before you start telling those jokes. You know the ones I mean. The ones rated XXX by the family values folks who turn out in droves to support George and his friends. Remember Hillary Clinton . . . oops, "Rodham" Clinton. The time she put on those designer clothes and posed for a fashion layout in Vogue magazine and sold as many copies as Jackie Kennedy to the consternation of her friends. "She didn't prove, as her advocates insist, that a modern woman can be all things,"...

CBS Bob Schieffer doesn't have much of a sense of humor anymore, judging by his reaction to a quip from House Majority Leader Tom DeLay.All of the Sunday interview shows devoted segments to DeLays ethical problems, but only Schieffer was appalled by how DeLay had told the NRA convention in Houston on Saturday night that 'when a man is in trouble or is in a good fight, you want to have your friends around, preferably armed.' On Face the Nation, Schieffer read the quote to Republican congressman David Drier and demanded: 'Well, don't you find that rather inflamatory?'Schieffer then pressed...

The city's tax superintendent has been suspended without pay for a week for trying to inject some humor in the city income tax filing instructions. The forms -- with such lines as, ``If we can tax it, we will,'' -- were sent last week to all Middletown businesses and residents who pay city income tax. The attempt at humor by Linda Stubbs was called ``misguided'' by city Finance Director John Lyons. Lyons said revised forms were sent out immediately at a cost to taxpayers of about $5,500. Among the lines that city officials didn't think were very funny was this...

All six members of a pub darts team have been banned for life after being accused of making anti-homosexual jibes while playing against a side made up of homosexuals and lesbians. The three men and three women from the Bevendean Hotel in Brighton have been told by their league that they will never again be allowed to throw competitively. Players from the Bevendean - the runaway leaders of the mixed division of the United Darts League in Brighton - were accused of refusing to shake hands with their opponents or even to eat the food on offer when they went...

DURHAM — Timothy Garneau can move back in to a University of New Hampshire dorm and stop living in his car after school officials dropped further sanctions imposed on him for joking about female freshmen gaining weight. The UNH sophomore said yesterday that Esther Tardy-Wolfe, director of UNH's Judicial and Mediation Programs Office, told him he can relocate to Gibbs Hall but not move back in to his former dorm, Stoke Hall. "I wish I was back in my original room but at the same time, it's a relief to be somewhere to be able to put your clothes in...

DURHAM — A University of New Hampshire student banned from his dorm for posting fliers that urged freshmen women to lose weight by taking stairs instead of an elevator says he won't accept a watered down UNH judicial finding that might let him move back in to campus housing. "Definitely not," said UNH sophomore Timothy Garneau, 20. "I'm appealing it. I firmly believe that if I did accept the situation that I got today, that I would not be placed back in housing." Garneau was kicked out of his Stoke Hall dormitory on Sunday after UNH's Judicial and Mediation Programs...

I have been informed that CNN is now taking legal action against The National Debate over their objection to a faux news report on fake poll results showing John Kerry leading in a recent poll of fradulently registered voters. Can't these guys take a joke? I guess they can so long as it as the expense of George Bush. Poke a little fun at their candidate and they call out the lawyers. Good grief. Over the past few days I have withheld publishing on the site as I consider my options. During that time CNN has been pushing my ISP...

NEW YORK — Democrats said yesterday that the Bush administration and Republican officials must have been behind the hundreds of "Purple Heart" adhesive bandages mocking Sen. John Kerry, which were distributed Monday night on the Republican convention floor.     "Having myself chaired two Democratic conventions, let's be crystal clear. This did not just happen," said Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe.     "Two hundred and fifty Band-Aids handed out on the floor of the convention does not happen without the leadership of the party and the people who are running this convention, who are ultimately responsible to the president," he said. He...

GOP bigwigs put the screws on a Virginia delegate mocking John Kerry's war record last night after Rep. Charles Rangel, a Democrat, blew up at the Republican convention and demanded that President Bush put a stop to the attacks. Morton Blackwell, a GOP activist from Virginia, was distributing bandages with purple hearts on them over the message: "It was just a self-inflicted scratch, but you see I got a Purple Heart for it." Kerry won three Purple Hearts, a Silver Star and a Bronze Star in Vietnam. National GOP leaders first said they knew nothing of the bandages, which popped...

ATLANTIC CITY - Sometimes kicking a guy when he's down isn't a good thing. Especially when he's the state's newly gay governor. The announcer for minor league baseball's Atlantic City Surf was fired and the scoreboard operator resigned after dedicating the song "YMCA" to Gov. Jim McGreevey. The 1970s "Village People" hit song is widely considered a gay anthem. Team co-owner Frank Boulton called it "disrespectful."

Pets Stores Stop Sales Of Mailman Shaped Dog Treats TORONTO (Reuters) - Dogs chomping on mail carrier-shaped treats is no laughing matter for Canada Post. The unamused Canadian postal service -- whose carriers endure more than their share of real dog bites -- convinced Pet Valu Inc. stores to stop carrying Bark Bars, dog biscuits that come shaped like cats and letter carriers. "This is not in any way, shape, or form funny for us, and to make light of that ... I don't see that as funny at all, not even in the least," said John Caines, Canada Post's...

Senate President Pro Temp John Burton has threatened to stall the budget process because of Governor Schwarznegger for his "girlie men" comments!! He states the comments have stalled the process for at least another TWO WEEKS! Can you believe it? (THEY REALLY ARE GIRLIE MEN!!!) I was so mad I called and asked the receptionist if I was reading my paper correctly? She said I was. I asked her if she realized that the "girlie men" comment was once a joke made "ABOUT" the Governor.. and now he made the comment in a joking manner about the lawmakers in a...

Is there anyone more annoying than ultimate-establishment guy David Gergen, the man who has worked for four or five presidents, including Bill Clinton? There he was on Today this morning, defending former Clinton National Security Advisor Sandy Berger who has been accused of taking classified documents from the National Archives. And what was the source of Gergen's knowledge of the subject? He repeatedly made reference to statements made by "close associates" of . . . Berger! In other words, Gergen was nothing more than a shill for the Berger/Dem party line. In fairness to Today, they led the show with...

<p>Hey all you girlie men, it's time to rally around the free speech rights of the governor of California.</p> <p>Doesn't this one just make you laugh so hard it hurts?</p> <p>Arnold Schwarzenegger (search) was caricatured on "Saturday Night Live" some 20 years ago by "Hans" and "Franz," whose slogan was "We want to pump you up."</p>

Former California gubernatorial candidate Arianna Huffington is blasting the man who beat her last year, saying that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is "a bully" for calling Golden State Democrats "girlie men." "What we've seen in Arnold is an alternation of the seducer and the bully," Huffington told the New York Times. "Seduction worked for a while because he's a very charming man and the people were so relieved to be rid of [recalled Gov.] Gray Davis and have someone entertaining in his place." But Huffington warned, "When the seduction doesn't work anymore, the bully comes out. The expression 'girlie man' is...