DADT: we don't have the votes
or at least, that will be the headline if we don't get our collective shit together. There are already rumblings in the press that this may be the case - they're allowing the headlines to be dominated...
View ArticleWrite On! Censorship and Resolutions.
Greetings, everyone! Sensible Shoes has some family medical issues (send your best thoughts her way), so I'm taking control of the series this week. Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate!Note: I'm...
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Literature for Kossacks: Harriet Wilson
Greetings, fellow literature-lovers! I owe today's segment to a news item excerpted last month in Black Kos' Tuesday Chile on recent scholarship about a writer I'd never even heard of, Harriet Wilson....
View ArticleObama's DOJ and a shift in LGBT policy
(Or not such much "shift" as "first real application of a promised shift" in LGBT policy, which is itself significant. Way too much for a title, though.)While we're mostly engaged in overrating or...
View ArticleThe LGBT population: what you need to know
Update: Some of the criticisms below are now moot, because the original diarist has updated his own diary. I'll still leave this one up for discussion, and I hope people check out the op-ed and paper...
View Article"Deathers", skepticism, and conspiracy theory
First, a story:In August of 2002, nearly a year after the events of 9/11, an article in the American Free Press cited multiple sources in confirming the existence of molten steel at the site of the...
View ArticleAdmin. gives grant to establish LGBT refugee center
A small bit of welcome news today: the Department of Health and Human Services just approved a $250,000 grant to the Heartland Alliance in Chicago for the creation of a "technical resource center" with...
View ArticleImportant DADT developments
No, DADT hasn't been certified yet, but there have been some important developments in the Senate that are worth noting. This'll be a quick diary (h/t MetroWeekly):First, attempts to derail the repeal...
View ArticleCatholics and LGBTs
I was born, baptized, raised, and confirmed Catholic. I went to Catholic school for 12 years, 8 of which were at an all-boys' institution run by brethren. Until college, I could count the number of...
View ArticleIn defense of RKBA
at least on this issue. There's an unfortunate GBCW currently at the top of the rec list that misrepresents a recent diary and its content, and has led to a backlash against a group of users that...
View ArticleLiterature for Kossacks: In the court of the Pale King
Since we all breathe, all the time, it is amazing what happens when someone else directs you how and when to breathe. And how vividly someone with no imagination whatsoever can see what he's told is...
View ArticleUnderstanding the Fourteenth Amendment
There seems to be quite a lot of confusion over what the President can unilaterally do in invoking the Fourteenth Amendment (over a thousand comments mentioning it in the last three days), so I...
View ArticleDon't donate to Obama 2012
Yeah, I'm serious.I mentioned this at the end of my last diary, but I think it bears repeating: I'm not donating to Obama for his reelection, and I'd encourage you to consider the same. Here's why:
View ArticleHello? Elections tomorrow?
As I write this there are a total of 2,197 comments and 1,933 recs on Recommended diaries about President Obama, and a total of zero comments and zero recs on Recommended diaries about the Wisconsin...
View ArticleR.I.P. Andy Whitfield
Short diary to send condolences and best wishes to the family of Andy Whitfield, who passed away after a long battle with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma a few hours ago. (This was mentioned in OND but I...
View ArticleWrite on! (filler edition)
Greetings, writerly and readerly people! Apologies for the late post, but I forgot I volunteered to fill in for the inestimable SS, who couldn't make it this week.Interesting and juicy bit of debate...
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Weekend
I'll state the thesis up front: this diary is a plea for people to go see Andrew Haigh's film Weekend, which will be opening to a very limited release over the next week or so. At the screening I...
View ArticleA Bitter Anniversary
November 10, 1898 is a day that should live in infamy. It marks the only time in our nation's history when an elected body government was successfully deposed by force, with new officials appointed...
View ArticleA quick primer on Russia's elections/protests
You may have noticed that there are protests going on in Russian right now over the results of their latest round of federal legislative elections. It may not be Greece, but these protests signal an...
View ArticlePhotos and stories from Russia's protests
Tons of photographs and stories from the protests going on in Russia right now. I don't want to copy and paste other people's photographs, so I'll drop some links and explain what it is you're seeing....
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