Karl Rove's Kinky Dad

Boing Boing is reporting on a first-person essay on a body-modification aficionado site called BMEzine, in which the author claims to be in possession of Karl Rove's adoptive father's cock ring. And while Louis Rove is well known to have been gay, apparently he was also very into genital piercing (NSFW), having participated during the 70's in "piercing parties."

So the father of the architect of the Republican party's virulently anti-gay campaigns was not only a homo, he was kinky as well. Rove didn't know that Louis was not his biological father until after his parents separated and Louis came out. Rove's mother later committed suicide. Yet Rove kept a picture of Louis on his desk at the White House. Louis died of lung cancer after retiring to Palm Springs. Such a sad, strange, twisted story. How does all of this play into the current ugly state of the U.S. government? Maybe not at all. Maybe, a lot.