Chris Lavoie, producer of Stephanie Miller's radio show, has blown his top over California's Propositions 2 and 8.

Proposition 2 passed, requiring chicken farmers to treat their product with a modicum of humanity. Even a fuckstick Nazi like Michael the Wiener-Savage supported this prop.

Proposition 8 also passed, making homosexual marriage unconstitutional in the State of California.

Now, it sucks that Prop 8 passed. But to conflate this with Prop 2 is absolute idiocy. And this is exactly what Lavoie has been doing all week: bitching about people who think chickens deserve rights, but homosexuals don't.

Steph and Jim Ward have appealed to Chris' sensibilities - but he's stubbornly equating the two measures' fundamentals.

Now, why do I really care about Chris Lavoie's illogical argument? I suppose it's the final straw in my building anger against his work, and an excuse to blog about it.

First of all, Lavoie's reliance on two listeners' daily voice sampling submissions pisses me off. Sorry, Listener DJ and Shane O, but I'm not paying for the StephCast service so I can hear several minutes of your stale, formulaic "comedy" every goddammed hour.

Secondly, Lavoie has a tendency to call everyone with which he disagrees an idiot. In a very serious, non-funny way. If I wanted humorless name-calling, I'd tune into Limbaugh et al.

And finally, Lavoie insists on staying in the closet, which is a huge insult to us listeners. Obviously we don't look down on homosexuality, and to have someone so obviously gay conceal his identity from us tells us (a) our progressiveness is not trusted, and (b) we're not smart enough to know who we're listening to.

Lavoie is the salesman with a bad wig feeding us a line of total bullshit. We can afford the good car... stop touting the lemon, take off that silly wig (beard?), and level with us for a change.

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