Fresh Loaf

1. Woodstock lawmaker hates edumacation (BJs and prostitutes and legislators — oh my.)

2. Beltline, Amtrak, GDOT maps and more! (Looks like some serious wonks are reading Fresh Loaf. Hi guys!)

3. Piedmont parking deck foe gets award (Parking decks bad. People who hate parking decks good.)

4. Homer Simpson’s worst nightmare (Everybody lusts after donuts — almost as much as they lust after … )

5. Lust List 2009: The Countdown ( … super-sexy unsung Atlantans.)

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A Gold Dome rule of thumb is that an erroneous premise should never stand in the way of an opportunity to grandstand, pander and basically make a clown of oneself. The ball started rolling when Rep. Calvin Hill mistakenly assumed GSU offers classes on oral sex and prostitution.

“I’m personally outraged that our taxpayer money is supporting professors, that this is what they’re offering as their services.”

— Rep. Calvin Hill, R-Canton, as quoted in the AJC

Rep. Byrd

“Did you know the state universities offer special-interest classes and expertise on male prostitution, queer theory and oral sex? Yes!”

— Rep. Charlice Byrd, R-Woodstock, in a video she posted to YouTube

“I am sad that members of the GSU faculty had to … defend their vital research … because of ridiculous allegations.”

— Rep. Karla Drenner, D-Avondale Estates, in a Feb. 11 speech from the House well

“It’s been taken sideways by people who like the titillating words.”

— Rep. Calvin Hill, quoted in the AJC blaming the media for reporting on the issue

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this post had the wrong district for Calvin Hill.

(Photo by Joeff Davis)

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It’s difficult to imagine a person less suited to making important public policy decisions than state Rep. Charlice Byrd, R-Woodstock.

This is because Byrd, a former elementary school teacher, is 1. a poorly informed reactionary, 2. an ultra-partisan ideologue, and 3. a complete idiot.

I feel I can say all this with authority after watching her new YouTube diatribe, in which she duplicates a speech she delivered from the House well on Friday.

Like the Gilda Radner SNL character Roseanne Roseannadanna – only much, much sadder – Byrd has no idea what she’s talking about. She’s outraged that Georgia’s public universities offer “special-interest classes” on such topics as “male prostitution, queer theory and oral sex.”

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By now you’ve surely seen the comments state Rep. Calvin Hill, R-ThisThatAndTheOther, made yesterday about how ENRAGED he was that taxpayer dollars were paying the salaries of Georgia State University profs considered scholars in the fields of oral sex, queer theory and male prostitution.

An enigmatic scribe at Pecanne Log reminds us of the hardships GSU has endured to become a group-sex friendly learning institution:

Georgia State has lagged behind other colleges in the state for decades in terms of student life due to its designation as a commuter school. The most flourishing and attractive part of any higher education institution’s campus life is, of course, its orgies. GSU has spent the last ten years playing an expensive catch-up in order to also be labeled an orgy-friendly research institution.

She goes on to carefully detail just how much the university has accomplished — occupying the Sodom and Gomorrah-esque Olympic Village, building group study rooms with viewing windows, etc. You can see why these women won our Best Local Blogger award, people!

Take note, Rep. Hill: This is bigger than budget shortfalls! Try and rob us of our oral sex experts and the erotic legacy GSU has struggled to build and you will see a protest on the statehouse steps unlike any you’ve ever seen before!

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