The White House has declared June 2010 to be Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month. Coming on the heals of a potential Don't Ask, Don't Tell repeal, it looks like gay/lesbian/trans folks are getting the attention we've been itching for ever since Obama came into office ( Read more... )

Book Eighteen

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And I need someone to try this out for me because a) I don't have the opportunity to have this kind of discussion over here and b) I don't like getting punched.

The heads of the U.S. Military are coming out and arguing for the elimination of Don't Ask, Don't Tell so that gays and lesbians can serve openly in the Services. This is, of course, ( Read more... )

Sometimes it's good. Y'know, that stable, predictable feeling you have about the world, knowing that each day will, fundamentally, be like the one before. Water is wet, black is black and the sun rises in the east. Nothing wrong with consistency in this benighted world ( Read more... )

It seems that the New York Times, back in 2008, printed two articles exposing the collusion between the Pentagon and the TV media. David Barstow wrote about how retired generals and U.S. military officials, who acted as paid and unpaid news analysts for the major TV networks lading to and following the Iraq war, were not nearly as independent and ( Read more... )

What with all the JonBenet fuss, we seem to remember that the media loves beautiful dead girls.

Well, courtesy of John Rogers, who got it from Kos, here are some beautiful dead girls who are getting almost no attention.

And I'd say they deserve a whole hell of a lot more than JonBenet does.