Cher Dance music (although I do like some) Rainbow flags Drag Shows Decorating Madonna Abercrombie & Fitch The Wizard of Oz Queer as Folk Janet Jackson Wine Coolers South Beach Morrissey The Human Rights Campaign “Manscaping” Rainbow stickers on my car Queer Eye for the Straight Guy (*cringe*) and countless other things… That being said, …
Archives for June 2008
Troglodytes
McConnell, DeMint, Burr, Bunning, Chambliss, Vitter, and Sessions: Bush’s AIDS program has been described by many, including even his critics, as his greatest diplomatic and foreign policy success and has alleviated the suffering of millions. But now seven Republicans are calling a halt on an expansion of the program, “the best ambassador the U.S. has …
Unity in Unity
Long-time readers will instinctively know how I feel about the whole unity tour going on right now in Unity, NH- it makes me want to barf, as platitudes like this often do. However, for those of you, who, like me, thought that the joint Obama/Clinton appearance today was most likely going to be a kiss …
Winning the Battle, Losing the Issue
This Mark Murray piece seems to make a lot of sense: Yesterday’s Supreme Court decision on the 2nd Amendment elevated an issue — guns — that hadn’t received that much attention until now. Remembering that the subject hurt Al Gore in 2000 and somewhat damaged Kerry’s image in 2004 (after his widely panned hunting excursion) …
Busy Busy Busy
Entertain yourself. DOW is down again. **** Update *** Olbermann at the GOS: I don’t know much about Mr. Greenwald and I didn’t read his full piece, but I do know that the snippet he’s taken out of the transcript of my conversation with Jon Alter last night makes it sound like I was saying …
Priorities are Straight
Via Outside the Beltway, this Milbank piece on David Addington’s ‘testimony’ yesterday, about which Joyner states: David Addington, chief of staff to Vice President Cheney, was testifying under subpoena yesterday to the House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties. To took great delight in being a complete jackass, as Dana Milbank details. …
Open Thread
“You know,” said Arthur, “it’s at times like this, when I’m trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I’d listened to what my mother told me when I was young.” “Why, what did she tell you?” “I don’t know, …