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Pride 2009 Posted 30 Jun 2009 under General
(First off, here is the post I link to whenever I write about civil rights for the GLBT community. If you haven’t read it before, I highly suggest you do so now.) Since the passage of Prop 8 taking away the right of gay and lesbians to marry in California, and the Obama administration’s broken [...]
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Strange Bedfellows Indeed! Posted 26 Jun 2009 under Congressional Man Date
The Waxman-Markey bill (a.k.a. the energy reform bill, a.k.a. the climate change bill) is expected to come up for a House vote today. Passage requires 218 votes, and it’s not at all clear the votes exist: According to an E&E analysis of the floor debate, Democrats still have their work cut out for them. Even [...]
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A Concise History Of DOMA Pretenses Posted 18 Jun 2009 under Obama Uber Alles, Podium Spin
(1) First, Obama-the-candidate promises to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act. Then, the Obama administration files a brief supporting DOMA (see Matt’s powerful post about Obama’s wideranging and continuing betrayal of the GLBT community). A brief that John Aravosis describes as “despicable, and gratuitously homophobic”. Then, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs insists that [...]
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An Appalling Betrayal Posted 16 Jun 2009 under Depends on the Definition of Change, Obama Uber Alles
2008 SF Pride Parade – © Matt Cohen I go to the San Francisco Gay Pride Parade ever year. I used to go with some of my gay friends, and these days I get assigned to photograph it. I go because it’s important. I go to support my gay friends. I go [...]
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Jewish for the Jokes Posted 19 May 2009 under General
Alvy Singer: Don’t you see the rest of the country looks upon New York like we’re left-wing, communist, Jewish, homosexual pornographers? I think of us that way sometimes and I live here. For $5 Million, Woody Allen Drops Lawsuit vs. American Apparel – NYTimes.com “Annie Hall,” the Oscar-winning film directed by Woody Allen, earned the director $5 [...]
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Iraqi Millitias Are Listening to Too Much Wu-Tang Posted 21 Apr 2009 under General
Think Progress (4/21/09): “A prominent Iraqi human rights activist says that Iraqi militia have deployed a painful form of torture against homosexuals by closing their anuses using ‘Iranian gum.’ …Yina Mohammad told Alarabiya.net that, ‘Iraqi militias have deployed an unprecedented form of torture against homosexuals by using a very strong glue that will close their anus.’ [...]
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I Now Regret Not Going to Law School Posted 02 Mar 2009 under General
I’m a big fan of obscure references and callbacks (news, right?), but I think I may have just had my mind completely blown. Several years ago, for a few weeks, the whole internet became obsessed with an interview with Harlem rapper Cam’ron in which he explained that any time he said or did anything [...]
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Political Comedy Posted 14 Jan 2009 under General
The term political theater is used a lot, but rarely does it ring this true: I’ve been engaged in Democratic politics for quite a while, and I honestly can’t remember the last time they did something this clever. First, a little history. For the first time in nearly 140 years, Republicans are the majority party in the [...]
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Everyone Wants To Be In a Cam’ron Video Posted 13 Jan 2009 under Religious Right / Extremists
Everyone who’s a Republican anyway: Former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, a leading candidate for the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee (RNC), is coming under fire Monday for making remarks this summer that gays and lesbians suffer from a “compulsion” that can be “restrained.” “You can choose to restrain that compulsion,” Blackwell told radio host [...]
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Hucka-Nullus Posted 12 Jan 2009 under Religious Right / Extremists
Apologies for soiling this page with Coulter’s ghoulish visage, but how can I be expected to pass up a video containing once and future Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee more or less saying “no homo”:
