A buddy of mine snapped this shot shortly after he heard an explosion outside his office here in Nashville. Interesting, because cars and trucks don’t usually explode on impact…

…I think it’s a governmental conspiracy.

UPDATE: Apparently the tow truck didn’t even hit the pole with a driver inside it. The truck was parallel parked across the street, and when it got so ridiculously hot outside, the brakes just melted, sending the truck across the intersection into the pole.

Sometimes, I just can’t even believe what people think is “a good idea.” I hope they had to shave this moron’s head to get all the duct tape off. Looks like he might even lose one-and-a-half eyebrows.

So I open up this CNN story, right now the 4th most popular story on the news agency’s website, to read about why people are protesting the mayor of Fort Lauderdale. The opening line:

With white sandy beaches and a laid-back atmosphere, Fort Lauderdale has long billed itself as a gay-friendly tourist destination.

That’s right folks, writers Susan Candiotti and Patrick Oppmann have set the record straight (just in case there was any confusion)– homosexuals flock to laid-back areas with white sandy beaches.

Seriously though, the brouhaha appears to be over the mayor taking a stand against homosexual sex in the public bathrooms. And he’s not shy about it either:

“We don’t have men and women having sex together in bathrooms, at least we don’t have reports of that. It’s men having sex with men, and I feel it’s necessary for an elected official to tell it like it is. I don’t subscribe to political correctness,” Naugle said.

People are upset, even the former vice-mayor, saying he is stereotyping. But here’s my question… how should a mayor deal with a problem like that? If it IS happening, then I would definitely perceive it as a problem. Apparently the gay community would rather he ignore it? He didn’t request separate bathrooms for gays, he asked for a reasonable solution to an actual problem that is only being caused by gay men. I don’t see why it’s a problem to discuss the reality of the situation.

Only members of the forum on gearslutz.com will care:

I got tired of using the somewhat lackluster search function within the forum some time ago, and I’ve been getting much better results using Google to search that site specifically. But it would be nice to have a Firefox/IE7 search plugin to allow me to search straight from the browser, non? Good thing I made one.

Click here to install.

According to USA Today, it’s hot in Tennessee.

I could’ve told you that. It’s been that way all summer. Most of the time the thermometer in my car reads three digits, so I’ve had to start getting up early if I want to have a good outdoor run. (Honestly, I feel like such a hamster on a treadmill.) And even at 6am, it’s already topping 80 degrees.

But the best part about the article?  Seventy-six year old Joe McClellan from just outside Nashville:

“I stay inside more, I drink more water. My wife’s bothered by it because she’s a woman, I guess,” McClellan said.