The link may only be good until Wednesday morning, so here's the text from The New York Post:

President Bush's AIDS czar, Dr. Tom Coburn, has canceled his subscription to Poz magazine in a huff after the gay lifestyle glossy ran a racy cover photo of 80 nude, HIV-positive readers.

Coburn, co-chair of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS, was apparently so offended by famed photographer Spencer Tunick's nude cover shot for Poz's 10th anniversary issue, he faxed a handwritten letter to the magazine's Meatpacking District offices last week, scrawling, "Please remove from mailing list immediately," over his name and address.

Poz founder and chairman Sean Strub, who is one of Tunick's nude subjects on the cover, says he's surprised by Coburn's objection to the fleshy photo.

"The irony is that literally this is the only complaint that we have received so far about the cover," Strub fumed to PAGE SIX. "He's a doctor - why is he so disgusted by naked bodies? You'd think that even if he disagreed with us, he'd still get the magazine for the information. It's indicative of the hostility that those of us living with AIDS face from this administration. We disgust them."

But a spokesman for Coburn, who is currently running for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination in Oklahoma, suggested that he might simply have been annoyed that the nude cover was sent to his Muskogee, Okla., doctor's office.

"I think his problem was having all these naked bodies on a cover destined for his waiting room," Coburn campaign spokesman Curt Price said. "I think as far as getting information from the magazine, he gets information from a plethora of sources already, and he will not be impacted by not getting the magazine."

This isn't the first time that Coburn has run afoul of AIDS activists. The New York AIDS Coalition protested his appointment to the HIV/AIDS council, claiming that the outspoken conservative pushed legislation during his three terms in the House of Representatives that overemphasized abstinence-only education.

In the 1990s, Coburn earned a reputation among young Capitol Hill staffers and interns who were lured with free pizza to his lectures on sexually transmitted diseases. The talks were marked by their pro-abstinence message and a stomach-turning slideshow featuring graphic, clinical images of sexually transmitted infections.

Anyone who believes that Tom Coburn subscribed to Poz magazine to put in his Muskogee waiting room should immediately go bid for the Golden Gate Bridge on eBay.

I swear, the lead-in to this story made me think the Lege had lost what little was left of its collective mind. The headline is "School Violence Bill Passes House/Moore Student's Alleged Shooting List Prompts Bill:"

OKLAHOMA CITY -- A Moore High School student's actions prompted the state House of Representatives to pass an anti-violence bill Monday. Brian Derrick Robertson was arrested in April 2002 for allegedly writing a plan for a shooting at his former school.

Now this, of course, is the same kid who required the "Save Brian" web site. He found a PageMaker training document on a school computer named "Evacuation Orders" and turned it into a short story about school violence. For this, he was charged with a felony, lost his job and couldn't keep more, incurred tens of thousands in legal fees, and even his friends who simply told the court-documented truth about him were fired for "supporting" him. I wrote it about it here, and again here when the charges were finally dropped. Even then, the kid couldn't get his record expunged because the felony charge had been open for over a year.

Well, it turns out, the lege isn't completely crazy - his hometown (Republican - yay for sane things from the GOP!) rep is trying to fix the horrible laws that caused all this:

It is currently a felony to plan to perform an act of violence intended to involve serious bodily harm or death. Violations are punishable by up to ten years in prison.

However, House Bill 2270 would require anyone charged with a felony under the statute to have "intent to perform such malicious acts of violence ..."

The measure passed 98-0 and now heads to the governor.

A companion bill would expand the list of persons who are eligible to have their criminal records expunged.

In other words, simply writing the story as before is no longer a thoughtcrime; the state has to prove you intended to carry out the plan, and if it strings you along for more than 12 months before dismissal, you can get your felony record expunged. Yay for sanity in the Lege.

(If you don't think this is important, go back and read the previous links. Seriously, this was bad mojo.)