May 31, 2010
Slightly salty girls: vintage French postcard
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | May 31, 2010 7:00 PM |I guess women always liked a, er, woman in uniform. Such a sweet scene, guessing 1920's or earlier....Read More
Roy Ashburn makes the case for outing
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 31, 2010 4:00 PM |Roy Ashburn, a California legislator whose closet burned down around him, talked to the local paper about how being outed changed him: On Thursday in a remarkably candid interview, Ashburn, who had long been a no vote on gay rights...Read More
Daytona's gay magazine drops the "G" word
Filed by Tom Brown | May 31, 2010 2:30 PM |GayDaytona, the monthly magazine of the Greater Daytona Beach Business Guild, has reinvented itself as HalifaxBiz, deliberately taking the word "gay" off its front cover. Gordon Phillips, who edited the local magazine under its old name for more than 10...Read More
Is it Time to Nuke the Oil Well?
Filed by Joe Mirabella | May 31, 2010 1:00 PM |Bloomberg News interviewed energy expert Matt Simmons, founder of energy investment bank Simmons & Company. From Raw Story: Simmons said the US government should immediately take the effort to stop the leak out of the hands of BP and put...Read More
Discrimination in the Military: 1942
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | May 31, 2010 11:30 AM |The year was 1942. My father, Bennie, as he was known then, was a skinny 18 year old Jewish kid from the Weequahic section of Newark, NJ. He was drafted at 18 and sent to San Antonio, Texas, to become...Read More
Gen Casey & Sec McHugh: DADT repeal not a "done deal"
Filed by Bil Browning | May 31, 2010 10:00 AM |Secretary of the Army John McHugh and Army Chief of Staff Gen George W. Casey sent an e-mail to troops over the weekend about Congress' "Don't Ask Don't Tell" repeal compromise. The legislation, which has been passed by the House...Read More
Memorial Day: Remembering Leonard Matlovich
Filed by Bil Browning | May 31, 2010 7:30 AM |"When I was in the military, they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one." -- Technical Sergeant Leonard Matlovich was a Vietnam War veteran and recipient of the Purple Heart and the Bronze...Read More
Classiest flash mob ever
Filed by Bil Browning | May 31, 2010 7:00 AM |This has to be the classiest flash mob ever. Check out what happens when the Opera Company of Philadelphia takes over the Reading Terminal Market....Read More
