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Having seen Ntozake Shange‘s For Colored Girls performed so many times I think I may hold the record for a dude born after 1980 who isn’t in the theater business. I absolutely love the piece, at some performances when Lady In Red finishes her monologue by saying ” “this note is attached to a plant/i’ve […]

Zerg invasion: As the economy sputters to a recovery in 2012, Barack Obama is starting to look as unbeatable as Ronald Reagan in 1984. Sarah Palin easily wins the Republican Primary, as most of the other front-runners decide to take their chances in 2016. It looks like folly, but suddenly, the world is devastated by […]

Matt Lewis has an interview with Hawaii Republican Charles Djou in which the Congressman gives an odd rationale for repealing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell: “I voted in favor of repealing ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell,’ simply based on my experience having served as an officer in the United States Army Reserves. I saw too many examples […]

Last week, over at Greg‘s place, I wrote that the case against repealing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell “relies largely on an archaic, rapidly diminishing cultural revulsion toward homosexuality.” This morning, The Washington Times shows you what that looks like, with an editorial titled, “Queer eye for the G.I.” The destructive force unleashed by the Pentagon’s […]

Blue Texan notices a line from George W. Bush that shows him being a bit selective about his accomplishments: “I would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live by those priorities,” explained Bush. “In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept […]

Someone claiming to be blogger Derick Mathis left a comment on my blog post about casualties in the LGBT rights movement yesterday. Although I hope that this isn’t actually Mathis, because that would mean the man is running around the internet embarrassing himself. We are absolutely stunned that many gays think because LGBTs have died […]

Alaska Republican Senate Candidate Joe Miller thinks the solution to our immigration policy is to imitate East Germany’s communist regime, I explain why he’s wrong beyond the rather obvious point that we probably shouldn’t be trying to emulate East Germany. Elise Foley, however, found a Congressional Research Service report that actually outlines how much it […]

Tim Fernholz on the news that “bodyguards” of Alaska Senate Candidate Joe Miller had handcuffed a journalist: What is it about the fear of big-government fascism that makes Tea Party candidates act like big-government fascists? Miller, on illegal immigration, on Sunday: On Sunday, Joe Miller, candidate for US Senate, held a town hall meeting at […]

Last week Fox mascot Brian Kilmeade proved a point that we’ve seen over and over which is that the way to avoid getting fired from your job as a media personality is to say something about an ethnic or religious group that it’s okay to hate. If Rick Sanchez had said something nasty about Muslims […]