Today's Daily Schadenfreude: Jim Naugle

Batshit crazy gay-hating Fort Lauderdale mayor Jim Naugle is in the news again. The city yanked his column (no euphemism intended) in a regular city publication.

City Commissioner Cindi Hutchinson brought up the column this week at a city meeting, and her colleagues agreed that the mayor's missives should not be carried in the taxpayer funded magazine. They told City Manager George Gretsas to make the changes.

Hutchinson reminded Mayor Jim Naugle of a resolution the group passed in September embracing diversity. That resolution, approved Tuesday, was intended as a public salve during a controversy over the mayor's comments that public restrooms and parks are hookup sites for gay men, and that he uses the term "homosexual" rather than "gay" because many gays are not happy.

In his column in the city's latest Focus on Fort Lauderdale publication, he talked about finding a tourism Web site advertising a city park for men to meet for sex. He encouraged citizens to call if they witness such illegal activities.

"I just want all this nonsense to stop," said Hutchinson, who is running for Naugle's open seat in 2009.

Naugle declined to apologize and said that he, too, "was outraged," because he wrote it in October "when all of that was timely."

However, Naugle brought up the same sex-in-parks issue just last month in his State of the City address.

This, kids, is what is known as "obsession." Naugle can't stop thinking about men having sex in public places, and so he can't stop talking about it. Note also that Naugle not only didn't apologize, he didn't not apologize; that is, he didn't even bother to give one of those Standard Wingnut Apologies™ like "I'm sorry if my statements offended anyone."

This guy is sick. I mean, not just wrong -- he's genuinely deranged. How shocking is it, especially in a purportedly gay-friendly city, that this guy actually got elected mayor? Jim Naugle disgusts me, and he should disgust all sentient beings anywhere. I'm appalled to think that it's going to take till 2009 to get this guy out of office and, we can hope, back into well-deserved obscurity. Until then, I guess he can just remain anonymous under his hood.

In the meantime, congratulations, Mayor Naugle, you abominable, festering piece of shit. Today's Blast Off! Daily Schadenfreude is for you!