In a column called "Alaska Ear" in Anchorage Daily News, there's this item about the complaints lodged in some right-wing media about a special Alaska Airlines discount offered on a web page targeted to LGBT travelers:

Did you get one of those e-mail screeches from some anti-gay group about a 10 percent discount on Alaska Airlines fares to NYC during the holiday season?

It's available to everyone, but the airline did some target marketing to gays that set talk radio on fire Outside. Claims that you have to tell the airline you're gay to get the discount would be funny if they weren't so stupid. A total lie, of course.

In real life, it's like the "Alaska constituent" discount to and from Juneau during the legislative session -- available to everyone but target-advertised to Alaskans.

Earwigs headed for the Big Apple anytime up to Jan. 8 can find out about the discount by Googling "Alaska Air Gay." And for the guy who whined to a reporter that "normal people" don't want to visit "a homosexual portal," the discount code is ECO6607.