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Marc Fisher, Washington Post metro columnist, recently wrote about a burly, bearded gay man whose license plate -- poofter -- would be revoked after the state decided it was offensive. By the way, poofter is British slang for "queer."

States have difficulty in deciding what should be considered appropriate self-expression and what is downright dirty, offensive or hateful. As Fisher notes, a federal judge in Missouri protected one man's right to drive around (presumably in a Confederate-flagged pickup truck) with "ARYAN-1" on the plates. But two women in Alexandria were denied the right to print "2DYKES" on their car.

So discrimination based on race is fine, but self-expression of lesbians is just out of the question. Or something.

By the way, any government review of a previously issued plate must come from a citizen complaint, so apparently after 11 years driving around with poofter on his tail, someone either figured out what the word meant or, more likely, thought it was some sort of scatological reference (courts upheld the prohibition against scat words, since they do not constitute a valid point of view -- says them).

What the Post did not mention in all the mustachioed madness is that Phillips recently proclaimed on Wonkette that he had rather disgusting and dissapointing sex with Idaho Sen. Larry Craig.

Whoops.

I wonder how the Post could have missed something like that? Or, did they just ignore it? For those of you outside the Beltway, Wonkette isn't just another blog. They've broken stories before, including the Washingtonienne scandal. For her work, the former editor of Wonkette, Ana Maria Cox, was hired by Time Magazine.

I sent Marc Fisher an e-mail to find out why this baring-it-all bear's full backstory wasn't included in the article. Check back for updates.