Monthly Archives: March 2008

Gore-Obama?

Some fascinating fantasizing from TIME’s Joe Klein: Let’s say the elders of the Democratic Party decide, when the primaries end, that neither Obama nor Clinton is viable. Let’s also assume—and this may be a real stretch—that such elders are strong and smart enough to act. All they’d have to do would be to convince a significant fraction of their superdelegate …

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Baghdad In Chaos, U.S. Troops Told
To Seek Shelter

MSNBC is reporting that U.S. troops in Baghdad are being told “not to leave reinforced buildings” today as Shia insurgents are overwhelming many parts of the city. Via Reuters: Iraq’s Prime Minister was staring into the abyss today after his operation to crush militia strongholds in Basra stalled, members of his own security forces defected and district after district of …

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Gays Pile On To Flip Leno the Bird

The Gays are rushing to follow the example of Avenue Q creator Jeff Whitty, who this week flipped Jay Leno a photographic bird for Leno’s continual habit of making gays the butts of his jokes. Go to MyGayestLook.com and see famous and not-so-famous homos and homo-friendlies wagging their middle digits in Leno’s direction. The site was was co-created by Whitty …

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Slain AIDS Activist’s Memorial This Sunday

A memorial service for slain AIDS activist Michael “La La” Brown will be held this Sunday at 6:30PM at Bryant Park in Lake Worth, Florida. The park is also host that day to Palm Beach County’s Pridefest, for whom Brown was a recent Grand Marshall. Brown, 50, was a beloved bon vivant, a pillar of the South Florida gay community, …

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Post Gay, Post Race, Post Gender

A 17 year-old gay kid in the UK has launched a site called Ditch The Label, which urges socially marginalized teenagers to discard the labels of race, sexuality, gender, and appearance. The founder of DitchtheLabel is 17-year old student, activist and part-time model, Liam Hackett. He developed the site primarily aimed at marginalised teenagers looking to break free from social …

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Mike Gravel Joins Libertarian Party

Mike Gravel, everyone’s favorite wacky idealist (and BFF of the gays), is ditching the Democrats to run for president under the banner of the Libertarian Party. In other momentous switches, the NYPD will change the color of parking tickets from safety orange to burnt orange. (And when Gravel is elected, we’ll be doing away parking tickets entirely. The government should …

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HomoQuotable – Gore Vidal

“Now, to Newsweek’s obituary of this late dishonorable American in which my editor-friend assures me that his brain-dead son Christopher had a hand: “Buckley bridled at bullies.” And who was the bully in context? Myself. He was also an expert at changing indefensible contexts. Buckley maintained that I supported revolutionaries who favored murdering U.S. Marines. Yet all the talk of …

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You’re Not Crazy To Eat At McDonald’s,
BUT YOU WILL BE

Oh, this is just fucking great. Middle-aged people with excess visceral fat – usually apparent in the thick waist or pot belly of an apple-shaped body – are nearly three times more likely to suffer from dementia in their 70s and 80s than people with little to no belly fat, according to a study of Kaiser Permanente patients. Researchers have …

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Open Thread Thursday

What’s the best advice your mother gave you? What’s the worst?

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Daily Grumble

With all this emailing and blogging and such, is anybody else losing their ability to write by hand? My handwriting was never good and back when they graded you on “penmanship” in grammar school, that’s where I always got my lowest marks. But these days, oy! I can hardly address an envelope without needing to start over at least twice. …

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Democide

Via Ben Smith in Politico.com: A new Gallup analysis reveals that — at this heated moment — significant amounts of Democratic primary voters say they would take McCain in the general if their preferred candidate doesn’t get the nomination: Clinton supporters appear to be somewhat more reactive than Obama supporters. Twenty-eight percent of the former indicate that if Clinton is …

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This Is What A Feminist Looks Like

Remember those uptight lesbian separatists who told me that a man could never be a feminist? Here’s what the Feminist Majority Foundation says. Thanks to Mike at Manhattan Chowder for the tip.

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Nancy Reagan Endorses McCain

Ronald Reagan attracted many Democrats to his “revolution” and now Nancy Reagan has endorsed John McCain, albeit rather tepidly. Nancy says,”Ronnie and I always waited until everything was decided and then we endorsed. Well, obviously, this is the nominee of the party.” McCain: “The Reagan Democrats are very important and I hope every one of them and new Democrats will …

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The Overhaul Of AIDS

After a spate of failures in AIDS vaccine trials, the U.S. government is calling for “new and novel ideas”. The U.S. government began a major overhaul of its effort to produce an AIDS vaccine on Tuesday, stressing a return to basic scientific research after the failure of a key clinical trial last year. Government officials at a summit with AIDS …

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Their Love Is Golden

This will warm even the most cynical of hearts, even mine. John Cook and Waverly Cole are doing what they’ve been doing for 50 years — traveling, enjoying the company of friends and giving to charitable causes. Cook, an 88-year-old retired teacher and school counselor, and Cole, a 78-year-old retired physician, are poised to celebrate their 50th anniversary April 15 …

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HomoQuotable – John Waters

“I don’t think my generation is better or had it better. The one thing you’ll never see again—and I’m not so sure it’s bad you missed it—was the sexual revolution. You can’t imagine what it was like to go home and have sex with someone different every day … People really did! In Provincetown there was a bar called Piggies, …

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Gay Group Honors Desmond Tutu

Desmond Tutu will receive the 2008 Outspoken Award from the International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission. The executive director of the IGLHRC, Paula Ettelbrick, says, “Archbishop Tutu’s vision of a world in which human rights are respected has always explicitly included LGBT people, despite the fierce opposition he has faced from his peers and colleagues. He has challenged political …

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Majority Support For Vermont Marriage

Support for gay marriage in Vermont is now in the majority. A majority of nearly 7,000 Vermonters completing opinion surveys on Town Meeting Day said they favor same-sex marriage. 54-percent said they support allowing gay couples to marry while 37-percent were opposed. That represents an 8-per cent jump in support for same-sex marriage in the last year, noted Johnson State …

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Brazilian Court Orders Wealthy American To Pay Palimony

An interesting development from Brazil. A court in Brazil has ruled that a married American man must share part of his wealth with a Brazilian man with whom he had a four year relationship. The Court of Justice in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, a state that legalized civil unions in 2004, recognized that the US citizen …

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The Long Defeat

From David Brooks in the NY Times: In short, Hillary Clinton’s presidential prospects continue to dim. The door is closing. Night is coming. The end, however, is not near. Last week, an important Clinton adviser told Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen (also of Politico) that Clinton had no more than a 10 percent chance of getting the nomination. Now, she’s …

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