February 20, 2007
Coming together
Filed by Bil Browning | February 20, 2007 | 11:51 PM |There's been a lot going on lately and I haven't gotten a chance to talk about something that's very important to me. On Sunday night I was witness to a remarkable and empowering experience. A little background... I truly and...Read More
The Anger Gap
Filed by Alex Blaze | February 20, 2007 | 10:29 PM |Jeffrey Feldman has a great post up over at the Huffington Post about answering the anti-Christian charge that conservatives often level at liberals, especially during the recent Edwards campaign hullabaloo. One thing that I found really interesting was in a...Read More
Who knew?
Filed by Alex Blaze | February 20, 2007 | 7:49 PM |Gavin Newsom has a musically talented cousin. Here's Joanna Newsom's Peach, Plum, Pear:...Read More
What your tax dollars aren't doing
Filed by Alex Blaze | February 20, 2007 | 6:31 PM |There's no such thing as a non-queer-related issue, and to disabuse anyone of that idea, the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq's Human Rights Report (links to pdf) has a section on queer people being hunted down in Iraq: Attacks...Read More
Quote of the day
Filed by Ed Team | February 20, 2007 | 2:13 PM |"If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless...Read More
Pass that Buck, again
Filed by Alex Blaze | February 20, 2007 | 2:03 PM |No sense in not pushing this again on a weekday. Take the pollFree Poll by Blog Flux Decide based on whatever criteria you choose and use the comments to describe those criteria. I'll post the results this Saturday. I wonder...Read More
Cultural ex-gayism
Filed by Alex Blaze | February 20, 2007 | 1:06 PM |Anyone who knows me knows that when I hear queer people describe themselves or their desired mate/sexual partner as "straight-acting", it's like nails on a chalkboard. I cringe, because there's too much internalized homophobia and self-contempt packed into that one...Read More
Episcopalians rebuked over the Issue that Dare not Speak Its Name
Filed by Alex Blaze | February 20, 2007 | 1:04 PM |In a move that was called unprecedented, the Anglican hierarchy has rebuked American Episcopalians for being OK with the gay. The NY Times article is good, but the Washington Post article says it more concisely:Anglican leaders concluded their five-day meeting...Read More
More and more Haggard stuff
Filed by Alex Blaze | February 20, 2007 | 1:00 PM |From the CO Springs Gazette:Concerning Ted and his family, we have done extensive fact-finding into his lifelong battle with a "dark side" which he said in his confession letter has been a struggle for years. We have verified the reality...Read More
Heather Poe, ya better take note...
Filed by Julien A. Sharp | February 20, 2007 | 10:44 AM |You could be on the wrong end of this story someday if you and l'il Mary (Cheney) have a l'il tiff that results in, er...irreconcilable differences. Having a baby "together" in Virginia?? What were you thinking ?!?!? I mean, this...Read More
