Volkskrant, my daily paper, reported that G star, a way too expensive would-be euro jeans brand, returned a batch of the shown display model because the genitals were too pronounced !

Frans Bauer won VPRO's alternative national anthem contest.
This report starts in front of the Vermeercenter in Delft (where I work)
and after the song you get a bunch of comments by, amongst others, my old friend from the Softies days Stefan Sanders, and Dutch supercamp republican Thomas von der (lage) Dunk:

The Nobel Peace Prize winner, said he was ashamed of his church because of its treatment of gays. He said that Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury and spiritual head of the Anglican church, has not demonstrated the attributes of a "welcoming God" to homosexuals. "Our world is facing problems -- poverty, HIV and AIDS -- a devastating pandemic, and conflict," Tutu said. "God must be weeping looking at some of the atrocities that we commit against one another. "In the face of all of that, our Church, especially the Anglican Church, at this time is almost obsessed with questions of human sexuality." He said that the Church acted in an "extraordinarily homophobic" way during the election of Gene Robinson as Bishop of New Hampshire.

Asked if he still felt ashamed, he replied: "If we are going to not welcome or invite people because of sexual orientation, yes. "It is a perversion if you say to me that a person chooses to be homosexual. You must be crazy to choose a way of life that exposes you to a kind of hatred. It's like saying you choose to be black in a race infected society." comment?

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