Love Rocket

This is a bit difficult, because I could write pages on this, and make thousands of easy, bad, and/or tasteless jokes about it, and I am sorely tempted, but I’m going to leave that to the late-night talk shows. First from the story as reported by Reuters, based a document posted by watchdog group the Sunshine Project:

The U.S. military rejected a 1994 proposal to develop an "aphrodisiac" to spur homosexual activity among enemy troops but is hard at work on other less-than-lethal weapons, defense officials said Sunday.
The idea of fostering homosexuality among the enemy figured in a declassified six-year, $7.5 million request from a laboratory at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio for funding of non-lethal chemical weapon research.

The story says that the idea to develop such a weapon was offered but “was rejected out of hand,” which the Sunshine Project contested Monday, claiming that the idea of a homosexuality-causing bio-weapon was given serious consideration by the Pentagon, as recently as 2001. The document, which they obtained through a FOIA request, is posted here (.pdf).

Follow the links and make your own jokes. I will say no more, nor should I.

OK, I lied. You may have to catch the Tonight Show, the Late Show, etc. this week, to hear the following "jokes:"

"They were going to design the weapon based on Richard Simmons, so I guess they wouldn't be using STEALTH TECHNOLOGY!"

"Who needs to spend millions on a bio-weapon to make enemy troops gay; why don't they just airdrop posters of Jude Law!"

"Who needs to spend millions on a bio-weapon to make enemy troops gay; why don't they just airdrop posters of Starr Jones!"

"Finally, my gay-dar will prove USEFUL!"

Insert applause, laughing band leader here.