January 2010
36 posts
Here's another great post out there today, about... →
Need some leaked new Sade ("The Moon and the Sky")... →
That bit on the gays (in the State of the Union)
Obama will say:
Abroad, America’s greatest source of strength has always been our ideals. The same is true at home. We find unity in our incredible diversity, drawing on the promise enshrined in our Constitution: the notion that we are all created equal, that no matter who you are or what you look like, if you abide by the law you should be protected by it; that if you adhere to our common...
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On Coming Out (per a reader's question)
A few days ago I announced that I started one of those ask-me-anything platforms. The first question I got was from a 20-year-old reader who asked how I came out, and how I would suggest she come out. (She mentions being in college and having a supportive liberal family and gay friends - to give you all context.)
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So, this response post is a bit long because, well, damn - there’s a lot...
More Numbers?! (The Public Option Version)
FRESHMAN DEMOCRATS FACE TROUBLE IN 2010 IF CONGRESS DOESN’T PASS A PUBLIC OPTION
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Polls in 10 frontline freshman districts show:
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68% of voters want a public health insurance option
By 5 to 1, voters want their Representative to fight to add the public option over passing the Senate bill By 3 to 1, persuadable voters are less likely to vote for the local Democrat if Congress...
The Gays going to the weddings of The Straights -...
Hi smart readers!
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Lately I have been thinking about a topic I’d love to get your takes on (you gays in particular, but also you straights)!
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So, weddings: they keep happening. And for awhile, it was like, palpable that straight allies we’re, in political theory, “down” with supporting gay marriage, and yet would keep entering in to the discriminatory institution...
"We knew what we wanted our name to feel like, but...
I came across this quote today, in an article where the lovely Kamara Thomas explains the process of coming up with a name for her band, Earl Greyhound.
For whatever reason, it just struck me. It seems to match a lot of what is going on in the world these days. There is the feeling, but there aren’t just yet the words to match it. (At least I am lacking them.) Tell me the story of Haiti...
I've succumbed to the dark side of including one... →
Do you think Maureen Dowd’s next column will be on how John Edwards blames his failed career on the gays?
What's that? You like numbers?!
Data that says that progressive action by those in DC is good! You’re welcome. xoxo
(PS - Go here for the charts and here for the cross tabs. Also, yes, lets pause to be glad that a collective crew of some Progressive groups (MoveOn.org Political Action, Progressive Change Campaign Committee, and Democracy for America) were organized enough to have this poll set up in advance, so as to...
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Haters Be Hatin
So, inevitably, Marueen Dowd had to have a green tea drinking sit down with San Francisco’s Mayor Newsom. We all knew this would happen sooner or later.
And yet! Still! Reading the piece that came out of that sit down still made me want to throw things at my computer.
Here’s the thing: Stop blaming the gays!
Basically, Newsom is trying to frame his failed career as being brought...
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On Massachusetts
“If this lady loses, the health care reform bill that the beloved late senator considered his legacy, will die. And the reason it will die… is because if Coakley loses, Democrats will only have an 18 vote majority in the Senate, which is more than George W. Bush ever had in the Senate when did whatever the fuck he wanted to…?!” - Jon Stewart
Here’s the thing...
forwhenifeellikesharing:
Patty Griffin - “Up to...
“Historian Maurice Isserman notes that many Americans who listen annually to...”
– Dr. Martin Luther King’s Economics: Through Jobs, Freedom
economic justice is social justice—can’t have any other kind without it.
(via champagnecandy)
Anyone aware that today, another bill has been introduced to restart a Public Works program to help get more people work in a more stable manner...
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choire (via maura)
OMG, I’m weeping. Was not prepared. So gorgeous. (click the title of this post to read.)
Haiti on the mind
Tonight my mind wouldn’t leave Haiti. In between trying to work a bit to maybe do some good (or attempt to!) in our own country, my thoughts kept straying back.
I realized I needed a soundtrack to this contemplation, as well as a more proper education in Haitian music. My search took me all over the Internet, but here is a good starting point or two, if you also feel the need to be...
i cried when i saw those buildings collapse on themselves like a broken heart.
Super Letter to the Editor from The Economist.
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“YO, ECONOMIST – I was scandalised to learn I had been previously scandalised without even knowing it, when I read that Gordon Brown had “scandalised Americans” by referring to our president as “Barack”. I think this may be a case of British self-flattery.
Before the outbreak of such outrage three things would have had to happen which simply did not. First, Americans would have to know...
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Adrienne Rich, talking about how June...
"It is a thing of beauty to be surrounded by moody... →
Heh. Yes, pls?!
(Not so much to the story, but to the quote.)
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Or suppose that gorgeous wing spread speckled hawk begins to glide above my body laying down like dead meat maybe start to rot a little bit not moving see just flat just limp but hot not moving see him circle closer closing closer for the kill until he makes that dive to savage me and inches from the blood flood lusty beak I roll away I speak I laugh out loud Not yet big bird of prey not yet
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About that novelette below...
So, after excitedly telling everyone I knew that I was going to see Elektra on its closing night at the Met, it was mentioned by a few friends that folks knew lots about what I wore, but little about what I thought of it all. Well, it was gorgeous. I don’t know enough to tell you how it compared to prior presentations, or the histories of the performers involved, and how they held up. I can tell...
