This article details a plan the Pentagon had to build a "gay bomb," as in, a BOMB THAT WOULD TURN THE ENEMY GAY.

"As part of a military effort to develop non-lethal weapons... One distasteful but completely non-lethal example would be strong aphrodisiacs, especially if the chemical also caused homosexual behavior. The Ohio Air Force lab proposed that a bomb be developed that contained a chemical that would cause enemy soliders to become gay, and to have their units break down because all their soldiers became irresistably attractive to one another."

No I didn't make that up, it is a direct quote from the article. This sounds like the plot of one of those bad 1980s spy movies that nobody ever saw, like where the spy character was played by Robert Reed and the evil mastermind was played by the guy who played Balki Bartokomous.

At first I was like, "am I accidentally reading the Onion only it changed its name to CBS News?" But no- it's real. And it's not a plan from the distant crazytimes past- it's from 19-freaking-94.

I could make any number of tasteless jokes here, I mean some REAL zingers, but this is crazy enough as is.

Thanks to Marianne for the tip.