Don LaFontaine was unfortunately unavailable (being dead), so Rick Perry goes all Jerry Bruckheimer/Michael Bay on Mitt Romney without a narrator. In a word…just when you thought it was safe to go into the voting booth…comes a vision more terrifying than Nancy Pelosi regaining the speakership… All that ad needs to take it over the […]
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Comedy of Errors
Presidential debates may be sort of silly, but no more than the rest of the presidential campaign.
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On the Dangerous Slopes of Jerusalem
Construction in East Jerusalem is destroying relations between Israel and its closest allies.
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Anyone but Obama
The social conservatives at this weekend’s Values Voter Summit may want a “true conservative,” but there’s one thing they want more than that.
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Let’s Hope So!
Steve Benen informs us about the Republican reaction to the procedural shenanigans last night in the Senate: McConnell, described as “visibly angry and shaken,” fumed to his colleagues, “We are fundamentally turning the Senate into the House. The minority’s out of business.” A GOP staffer added, “Just wait until they get into the minority!” Benen […]
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What’s Up With Brewster County, Continued …
Earlier this week I wondered what was up with Brewster County, Texas — waaay down on the Mexican border, which according to the census has 8.2 same-sex couples for every 1,000 households. While that doesn’t approach the numbers you find in some of the more famously gay-friendly regions, that’s almost as high a density as […]
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Paula Ettelbrick Dies
Another reason to grieve (and to read Hopkins): Paula Ettelbrick is dead. She was a fierce and important LGBT advocate, working in the movement for her entire adulthood, in just about every capacity, including Lambda Legal, the Empire State Pride Agenda, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, […]
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Obit Day
Today is obit day. The nation lost three visionaries, as you’ve heard by now: Steve Jobs, the Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth, and Derrick Bell. Others have said what there is to say, brilliantly. But such a day of losses made me think of a Gerard Manley Hopkins poem I try to say to someone every autumn. […]
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Why Biography Is Supposed to Matter
You may have heard about the little back-and-forth between Senator Scott Brown and his likely general election opponent, Elizabeth Warren. Briefly, at a debate a questioner noted that Brown paid for college in part by posing nude in Cosmopolitan, then asked the Democratic candidates how they paid for college. Warren joked that she kept her […]