this year’s National Coming Out Day and Connecticut’s breakout news, I thought I’d relay an overheard phone conversation between my son and one of his best buds who’s bisexual and boyfriend-ed. His side of the conversation:
“I just wanted you to know that Connecticut just legalized same-sex marriage.”
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“Yeah, really.”
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“So you think you and Joe will be [...]

A book I was tempted to like is Ariel Levy’s Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture. A mild polemic, it explores the apparent proliferation of “raunch culture” where women adopte male attitudes and prowess about sex and sexual presentation, or go the ultimate girlie route and Barbie-ize themselves, or adorn themselves [...]

Except for those named in the injunction, 18 U.S.C. 2257 has gone into effect. My understanding of it: If you have dirty pictures on the web, you’re expected to comply with this regulation, namely that you have to have keep an onerous pile of data for each image, regardless of whether you produced the image [...]

Salon gets around to exploring the already emerged asexual identity. I honestly agree with much of its take on how people come to asexuality, but I don’t agree with its apparent sentiment that asexuality represents some profound, underlying condition of the psyche that needs to be fixed. In many cases, it may well represent an [...]

Compared to the flak that Buster the Bunny’s catching. I guess Education Secretary Spellings doesn’t care that lesbians are taxpayers, too, or that some moderate Christians might not want their kids exposed to Pentecostal faith. If it smacks of queer culture, it deserves a smack down — even if the word, lesbian, or phrase “my [...]

Be afraid. Be very afraid. Judith Reisman is increasingly getting the eye of the press — put her name in a Google alert and see what I mean and — of more concern — the ear of Congress, and I’m concerned that even editorials pointing out her junk science won’t create enough resistence to her [...]

on his recuperation bed, Bill Clinton recommended to Kerry that he endorse efforts to prevent gay marriage. Amazing.
I’m deeply discouraged when I hear stories like this one, one where a major politic player doesn’t think twice about sacrificing other people’s wellbeing for the sake of winning. And I’m deeply dismayed by America’s willingness to deny [...]

And I’m deeply saddened by it all. Saddened that a significant portion of America’s population either failed to learn the lessons of Vietnam or chose to conveniently forget them because it puts a smile on their face to be led like lambs. It saddens me to see that my centrist-to-slightly-left self has become even more [...]

VOTE!

And when you approach the voting booth, please consider which party is more likely to extend rights rather than restrict freedoms. See you after the elections.

Their first video brought them considerable visibility, but their second? Faded from the scene as quickly as it debuted. Who am I talking about? Not some MTV rock group, but the Jibjab guys. In just a couple of day’s time, their second video, “Good To Be In Dixie,” appears to have disappeared from the airwaves. [...]