August 16, 2007
No Legal Opinion
Filed by Steve Ralls | August 16, 2007 | 8:48 PM |Remember President Bush's botched nomination of Harriet Miers to the U.S. Supreme Court? (Bill Maher still refers to it as that time when Bush "tried to put the White House cleaning lady on the nation's highest court.") Well, now it...Read More
Rove's Reason. Repressed?
Filed by Terrance Heath | August 16, 2007 | 7:03 PM |Jane says that Marcy says that any one of three different investigations could be behind Rove's sudden decision to step down. Admittedly, Rove' sudden resignation fits the pattern of Bush administration officials resigning two steps ahead of arrest, indictment,...Read More
Surviving Bush is not for Sissies
Filed by Sean Kosofsky | August 16, 2007 | 6:40 PM |The end is near. Even though we still have another year and a half of George Bush (His Illigititude) the doors are closing on this administration. With this impending regime change, it is important to look back and reflect on...Read More
The dog days of summer
Filed by Bil Browning | August 16, 2007 | 3:58 PM |I don't tend to talk a lot about my home life on the blog. It's just not my style (and I know no one is really interested in my pets, personal drama, etc.), but today I'm going to make an...Read More
Surprise: Haters Hate Hate Crimes Bill
Filed by Michael Crawford | August 16, 2007 | 2:12 PM |Cross posted at Bloggernista. The homo-haters at the American Family Association will stop at nothing to stop passage of a federal hate crimes bill that includes LGBT people. Now comes the claims that passage of the hate crimes bill will...Read More
There Should Never Be a Question of Choice
Filed by Ethan St. Pierre | August 16, 2007 | 2:09 PM |I was a little ticked off at the HRC/Logo Presidential Forum, when Melissa Etheridge asked Governor Richardson if he thought that homosexuality is a choice or something that you are born with. First, I wasn't aware that if you choose...Read More
Bill O'Reilly lied
Filed by Alex Blaze | August 16, 2007 | 1:19 PM |Well, that kinda goes without saying. Those people who toil away at Media Matters have recorded another lie by Mr. Propagandist. He said that there's a poll that showed that most Americans would be less likely to vote for a...Read More
Flushing Away the Naugle
Filed by Michael Crawford | August 16, 2007 | 11:26 AM |What is it with Florida politicians and their obsessions with public bathrooms? There was State Rep. Bob Allen offering cash and sexual favors to a (stocky and Black) undercover cop. Now we have Mayor Jim Naugle of Ft. Lauderdale wanting...Read More
Homotextual: Tony el Zouki
Filed by Ed Team | August 16, 2007 | 9:01 AM |“If this is some Christian group, then I really do not understand them. The message of Christianity is that people should understand and love each other." -- Swedish citizen Tony el Zouki after an evangelical religious group tried to burn...Read More
Bill Richardson: not a man of science.
Filed by Storm Bear | August 16, 2007 | 8:55 AM |click to enlarge...Read More
A reader submitted open thread
Filed by Bil Browning | August 16, 2007 | 8:50 AM |From the conversation on my post "Barney Frank defends Bill Richardson," comes this comment worthy of being it's own thread: As a person who has voted in almost a dozen presidential elections, I know that it is unrealistic to expect...Read More
The Woman Who Would Be Scribe
Filed by Marti Abernathey | August 16, 2007 | 7:45 AM |I was recently alerted to a blog post entitled "Academic intolerance." He discusses an article written by Alice Dreger entitled "The Controversy Surrounding The Man Who Would Be Queen: A Case History of the Politics of Science, Identity, and Sex...Read More
YGST: Immigrant women detained
Filed by Alex Blaze | August 16, 2007 | 6:17 AM |Video documentation of the way immigrant women were treated after a raid on a Massachusetts factory. (Thanks for the link, Jessica)...Read More
Oh, no -- more consolidation of the independent press!
Filed by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore | August 16, 2007 | 3:39 AM |Haworth Press, publisher of numerous imprints including Harrington Park Press (LGBT studies), Alice Street Editions (lesbian-specific), and Southern Tier Editions (gay fiction/erotica), as well as close to 200 journals, recently announced that they have been purchased by Taylor & Francis,...Read More
Politics!
Filed by Michael Buckley | August 16, 2007 | 12:02 AM |Buck Gets Political! OMG! It's my first political entry! And I know we need to talk about gay issues- don't hate on me! I was joking....sensitive gays! Stay Tuned for BILERICO SHOUT OUT at the end!...Read More
