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Savage Lovecast

Savage Love Episode 337

Savage Lovecast

Dan Savage

Sexuality, Society & Culture, Relationships, Health & Fitness

4.66.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2013

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

A woman caring for her father with dementia discovers that he is a pedophile, though she thinks he never acts on his desires. Should she tell her mom? The nurses in his house?  A man needs to think about lesbian relationships before he can nod off to sleep. What are lesbians- chamomile tea?  Ken Cuccinelli: What does his name *really* mean?  You're gonna tell us. 206-201-2720   This episode is brought to you by Audible. Download a free audiobook of your choice today at Today's episode is also brought to you by . Get 50 percent off almost any item when you enter "Savage" at checkout.

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0:00.0

You're listening to a Stranger podcast, www.thesanger.com.

0:06.5

If you're stuck in a relationship quandary,

0:10.3

or if you're looking for sexual harmony,

0:16.0

well, there's nothing you can't ask on the Savage Podcast.

0:24.8

Typically, the podcast begins with me ranting about some asshole who's doing something typically assholy or engaged in some assholery.

0:33.5

But this week, the podcast is going to begin with not an asshole, but a pretty decent human being. I just got the news as I sat down to record this week the podcast is going to begin with not an asshole, but a pretty decent human being.

0:38.5

I just got the news as I sat down to record this week's podcast at Roger Ebert, a longtime film critic for the Sun Times, host of a TV show at the movies with his old buddy Gene Siskel, passed away today of cancer at age 70 after a long fight and a long and dignified fight.

0:54.6

Roger Ebert, his Twitter feed and all the writing he's done after he was deprived of speech and ability to eat in the wake of salivary gland cancer,

1:03.8

it was so deeply human and so deeply moving.

1:06.2

And if you followed him on Twitter, as I did and millions of other people did. He was just a spectacular writer and thinker.

1:12.6

If you haven't ever been to his blog at the Chicago Sun Times, you should go there now and do a little reading.

1:17.1

But I just want to start this week's podcast by saying that the world's going to miss Roger Ebert.

1:21.7

And my deepest sympathies go out to Roger Ebert's wife, who is a spectacular woman and they had a

1:28.3

spectacular marriage and I ache for her right now.

1:33.4

So, beginning this week's podcast with Not an Asshole, but we will now shift to an asshole.

1:39.9

It's an awkward transition from the spectacular human being that was Roger Ebert to the piece of shit on the shoe that is Ken Cuccinelli.

1:49.3

Ken Cucinelli is Virginia's Attorney General.

1:52.0

He's an anti-gay bigot of the First Order.

1:54.1

He opposes and helps to block adoptions by same-sex couples in Virginia.

1:59.0

Virginia is a really terrible place to be a gay or lesbian person or to be a gay or lesbian

2:04.9

couple.

2:05.9

Virginia has an anti-gay marriage amendment on its books that is the most draconian in the

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