It's springtime, and the Gay News Bureau staff has been suffering from a variety of strains of spring fever.

Zeek is circling the globe, working on his art, and preparing for his gig as editor of ionArt Magazine. The last time we heard from Yip, he was working the C-Shift in rubber gloves, paper booties and a hairnet. (Hot? Or not? Readers: weigh in.)

Some of us are in the grips of a simple little home renovation that started with fixing a toilet that wouldn't stop running--which has now morphed into a whole house unravel that makes it impossible to sleep, bathe, cook, launder or get away from it all by sitting on the piers-in-space we used to call our «deck.» (Don't ask. We're a little touchy.)

And, we've been infected by the general Eureka Springs fever to build community gardens this year.

The people America elected because they promised to stamp out the dangerous, death-to-the-culture heresy of gay marriage have done such a fine job of running the country that we're looking at $150/pound lettuce this summer. Produce. It's like diamonds. Except you can't say, «lettuce is forever,» and we couldn't drive lettuce... even if we could afford the gas.

So, like many of our Eureka Springs neighbors, the Gay News Bureau staff is participating in the Eureka-wide initiative to grow our own food. Gardengate 2008.

We could say, «We told you so.» We could say, «What did you think would happen, America, when you ran to the polls in '04 because the Republicans promised to save America from the gays?»

It takes a wee bit more thought than that to run an industrial, technically-savvy nation. People with primitive logic turn the nations they manage into primitive settlements with mules. It's a rule.

The good news is, now we know how long it takes to devolve from space travel to mule power. That's one less thing to wonder about.

But we don't have the time right now to address the philosophical issue of turning a formerly industrialized nation into a random collection of self-protective community gardeners who trade with each other by means of beads and shells. Why? Because it's time to plant potatoes!

Meanwhile, the people who live in a constant state of disconnect from what most people laughingly call «reality» are busy with projects of their own.

The latest example comes from Oklahoma State Representative Sally Kern who has recently assured America that gays are a «cancer» that is «more dangerous than terrorism» and that the Eureka Springs City Council is «now controlled by gays.»

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