Pentagon Rejects Gay Bomb Technology

This is the way people imagine it. The scene: a shadowy board room, deep in the heart of the pentagon. Surrounding a massive round table in the shape of the geo-sphere, a collection of generals murmur nervously. Suddenly, the babble is hushed: their commander in chief enters. "Gentlemen," he drawls, "I have two words for you. GAY BOMB. I envision our enemies paralyzed before our amassed armies in a reverie of homoerotic butt humping." Resounding applause.

A Berkeley watchdog organization that tracks military spending said it uncovered a strange U.S. military proposal to create a hormone bomb that could purportedly turn enemy soldiers into homosexuals and make them more interested in sex than fighting.

Pentagon officials on Friday confirmed to CBS 5 that military leaders had considered, and then subsquently rejected, building the so-called "Gay Bomb."

This is causing a lot of controversy, but I'd make two points. The first: that stupid military technology is proposed to the Army all the time, and at least we can say that they rejected the idea. Two: I'd prefer to see our enemies fall into a reverie of gay love than blow them into small bits.

Incidentally, Electric Six is just so prophetic. Just change 'bar' to 'bomb.' "Let's start a war!"

Pentagon Confirms It Sought To Build A 'Gay Bomb' [CBS]