I haven't said much about politics recently. You may have thought, "Wow, Andrea is really restraining herself lately." Oh no. PLEASE. As if. I was just waiting until I could do a big old mega politics post and get it over with in one. Because I am lazy like that ( Read more... )

Obama made a speech about what it means to be a patriot, and he made me cry, so I am copying it here and no one is allowed to make fun of me.

On a spring morning in April of 1775, a simple band of colonists - farmers and merchants, blacksmiths and printers, men and boys - left their homes and families in Lexington and Concord to take up arms ( Read more... )

Today is the Day of Silence, this year in honor of Lawrence King, who was shot and killed in his classroom by another student because he was gay and he wasn't afraid to show it ( Read more... )

Let's do a reality check breakdown of the democratic primary race, shall we? All data from CNN.

Pledged Delegates: (delegates won)
Clinton: 1330
Obama: 1484

Superdelegates:
Clinton: 254
Obama: 230

Total delegates:
Clinton: 1584
Obama: 1714

Primary races won:
Clinton: 14/16 (if you count Michigan and Florida)
Obama: 15

Caucuses wonClinton: 1 ( Read more... )

From Michael Moore's blog:

I don't get to vote for President this primary season. I live in Michigan. The party leaders (both here and in D.C.) couldn't get their act together, and thus our votes will not be counted ( Read more... )

This report over at Towleroad makes me really sad and angry and disgusted with newspeople:

I thought Oprah handled the story of pregnant transgender man Thomas Beatie with respect yesterday. Not everybody's so accepting of Beatie, however, and plenty of people are openly threatened by him ( Read more... )

So normally I would never do this because a) it's American Idol and it's not important and b) I know Jacob, so it's a little creepy to be quoting him or whatever, but. I just read his recap from the results show and he really said everything I was thinking about Danny and why his ellimination bothers me so fucking much:

I think that another way ( Read more... )

For the first time ever in the history of a presidential campaign, a candidate is running LGBT message-specific ads in LGBT publications. Kerry ran general ads in LGBT publications, but they didn't mention LGBT concerns, they were just "vote for Kerry" in general:


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Recently, Barack Obama made the statement: "We are the ones we've been waiting for." And that pretty much sums up why I voted for him. Andrew Sullivan says it better, especially in regard to the GLBT rights movement:

A reader writes:

It surprises me that some commentators see messianism in a phrase that strikes me as deeply anti-messianic. The ( Read more... )

An article in the Atlantic just posted by Joshua Green profiles Hillary Clinton's campaign and the recent spat of firings the Senator has engaged in:

For the many people in and around Washington who obsess over the latest machinations in Hillaryland, the firing of Solis Doyle-and she was fired, several insiders confirm-is a big deal, but for ( Read more... )