As I've said before, I'm a firm believer in the red state / blue state dichotomy when it comes to marriage. As eminently described by Jonathan Rauch, the dichotomy is simple ( Read more... )

Since traffic was terrible this morning and my iPod's batteries were too dead to work effectively, I was stuck with the radio, and as is my unfortunate wont, I dialed into the morning's AM radio and stumbled upon right-wing talk show host Mike Gallagher commisserating with an interview subject about how "Government had become God, the arbiter of ( Read more... )

It's unlikely that the gay press wants to talk about this (with one very healthy exception), but yesterday the usual suspects (all good people, really) spun anti-gay activist Mark Regnerus's speech at the Catholic University of Steubenville as "Mark Regnerus: Same-sex marriage will grant straight men 'permission to stray', anal sex," with a big ( Read more... )

Last night, on the drive home from karate class, I made the unfortunate mistake of turning off the ipod (full of show tunes, natch) and turning on Steve Deace, a Catholic-oriented darling rising star of the right, whose tagline reads "Fear God. Tell the Truth. Make MoneyDeace was dissing Michelle Obama-- you know, one half of the First Marriage ( Read more... )

Pride is a suspiciously strong emotion. And pride is what is going to destroy this country. But not in the way you think it will ( Read more... )

So, there's been another storm over male privilege, this time in the vaunted halls of the Science Fiction Writers of America, where a few complaints about a chick-in-chainmail illustration on the cover of SFWA Bulletin #199 quickly devolved, with a regular column by Mike Resnick and Barry Malzberg in SFWA #200 discussing the sexual attractiveness ( Read more... )

This morning I heard John McCain saying, "President Obama needs to figure out how to put these controversies behind him."

He might have better luck if McCain could reign in his own f'ing party and have them stop obstructing him. What most Republicans understand (but McCain apparently hasn't) is that the presidents governs rather than leads, so ( Read more... )

This morning as I drove into work (yes, sigh, one of those days), I tumbled through the radio channels and stumbled onto local conservative talk show host Mike Gallagher. Mike was ranting about how he recently was diagnosed with a needed hip replacement and got a handicapped sticker, and "You wouldn't believe how many times I've gone to the mall ( Read more... )

I was reading an article the other day on a judge's ruling that Plan-B, the after-sex contraception, be made available to everyone, regardless of age. In his ruling, he stated that Katheryn Sebelius's almost un-heard of political overturning of the FDA's own recommendation that it be made available over the counter was political, uninformed, and ( Read more... )

 The Wall Street Journal editorial page recently had an unsigned editorial about Westerns, the genre, and how much the writer loved them.  "Amidst the moral slump, these movies are a call for good, old-fashioned individualism."

What a crock.

How would it sound if someone wrote, after Katrina and the storm that slammed into New York, "Admist the ( Read more... )