Do people really think that if the ban on gay Myrmidons is lifted, all of a sudden there will be this massive Guam-to-Guantanamo dance party and Osama will swoop in on a carpet and bomb everyone?  Is it that ten thousand faggots will suddenly want to fight for Amurrica, or that tough guys universally assumed [...]

I can’t believe the guy was ever proclaimed a hero.  “Democrat Opposes War!” is hardly news, even when the Democrat in question is a fat, ugly old white guy who opposes abortion and flag burning and who fought in Vietnam.
But that’s going to be his epitaph, in terms of how he’s remembered: the Democrat who [...]

It seems that the only thing more massively ineffective than all the various “Wars on X” that Americans love so much (Crime, Cancer, Terrorism) is any effort to end another–frequently undeclared–War.  I’m thinking of a flyer I saw the other day urging people to gather somewhere earnest in the Mission and stop the War on [...]

So it seems like Prop 8 might really go down–at least until it reaches the Supreme Court, where Anthony Kennedy will decide for 20 million American homos what they can or cannot do.  I never really thought about it, but the courts really are a bad forum for the bad guys.  They aren’t permitted to [...]

Neat!

I love this, even if it’s too conservative when it comes to preserving existing state boundaries.  Why is Nevada so recognizable?  It would be better to see this map reflect concentrated populations only; coastal Washington and Oregon together, for example.   To see one enormous state covering most of eastern Montana, both Dakota and Wyoming [...]

I have to give Christwire credit.  Normally, when people who hate gay people open their mouths, the most trenchant remark they make approximates, “Butt sex!  Eww!”  It’s usually Godshit, because paranoia about the national character and the debilitating effects effeminacy will have on the general population fell away after WWII.
Not so much this time.  This [...]

It’s so fucking irritating the way conservatives, once ejected from running things, speak their minds and–surprise–reveal themselves to have had sensible opinions on controversial issues all along.  Former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist thinks Obamacare is vital?  Naturally–he’s a cardiologist (and co-owns a hospital chain).  Nancy Reagan supports stem cell research?  Duh–her husband died of [...]

It’s either pay attention to the news or stay sane today, so since it’s the fourth day in a row of 100 Years of Solitude-type rain in San Francisco and I feel like writing, I’m going to be self-indulgent, apolitical and irrelevant.
In my long-running grip that the 60s were totally overrated except insofar as the [...]

The last time Massachusetts elected a Republican to the Senate was in 1966, the Thermidorian Reaction against LBJ’s Great Society.  Forty-four years ago, that man was Edward Brooke, the first popularly elected African American Senator.  He was a liberal Republican, the first in the party to urge Nixon to resign, and he had sex with [...]