When I started reading Dan Savage, he commanded that advice seekers greet his thusly, "Hey cocksucker!" http://www.thestranger.com/1999-03-18/savage.html Guess his editors at New Times alt. newspaper chain
(the SF Weekly is one, after they took over, former Socialist Review editor, Leslie Kaufmann, among many others was given the boot. The Weekly has a Libertoon line on local politics, running pieces for example against rent control using agit-prop from the Independent Institute. [which isn't totally evil. They sponsored a recent talk by Daniel Ellsberg http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people/Ellsberg/ellsberg98-0.html http://jerusalem.indymedia.org/news/2002/09/78537.php http://www.ellsberg.net/ in Berkeley. Ellsberg, btw, was on the Socialist Review editorial collective and was listed as a sponsor of In These Times when it was started. Ellsberg's book, "Papers On The War, " from the early 70's thanks Paul Sweezy and Monthly Review)
made him stop it. Michael Pugliese