July 11, 2010
Lunch is between a burger and a hotdog
Filed by Bil Browning | July 11, 2010 7:00 PM |Napkins don't have the same benefits as paper plates. See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor. (Hat tip to Jon Easter, who I also quoted on the Huffington Post this morning in "Michael Steele trying to recruit Lady...Read More
Caster Semenya is competing internationally again
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 11, 2010 5:30 PM |Caster's back: "She is really looking forward to the competition but is not expecting anything great," her manager Jukka Harkonen said Thursday. "She's in the middle of her training right now, but needs the experience of competing again." Semenya, who...Read More
Dahlin'
Filed by Kate Clinton | July 11, 2010 4:00 PM |In Ptown we are cycling too fast through the themed weekends of summer: Film Festival, Portuguese Festival, Circuit Party 4th of July, and now it's already Bear Week. Up- Cape, Melissa Etheridge has already made her summer stop at the...Read More
Disaster Capitalism's Catastrophic Success in Ireland ... And America
Filed by Terrance Heath | July 11, 2010 2:30 PM |In American politics, especially in post-9/11 politics, what most desperately needs saying is often banished to the realm of the unsayable. It’s either too impolite or too impolitic to utter. This tends to apply more to the left than the...Read More
NY Times: "Transgendered" People Who Don't Out Themselves Are Immoral
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | July 11, 2010 1:00 PM |Today's Sunday New York Times contains an article from "The Ethicist," Randy Cohen, entitled "When To Out A Transgendered Dater?" Mr. Cohen, who has no reputable credentials in the field of ethics, suggests that transgender people have a responsibility to...Read More
Tell Virginia's Senators to end "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" this year
Filed by Michael Hamar | July 11, 2010 11:30 AM |As most readers know, repealing Don't Ask Don't Tell is very high on the list of legislative items that I personally want to see accomplished this year. Living in Hampton Roads with its huge closeted military service member population, I...Read More
Same Sex Sunday: DOMA decision, the Today Show, Hawaii Veto, and more
Filed by Joe Mirabella | July 11, 2010 10:00 AM |Last week was a roller coaster ride for the LGBT community. We started off with more than disappointing news that Hawaii's Governor Lingle vetoed the civil union law. On Same Sex Sunday we interview Lambda Legal's Jenny Pizer who will...Read More
No bias, just questions
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 11, 2010 7:30 AM |"Absolutely, unequivocally, I reject (the accusations of bias) as nonsense. We think it would be irresponsible to conduct a survey that didn't address these kinds of (privacy-related) questions." --Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell on accusations of bias in the DADT...Read More
DOMA decisions on Russian TV
Filed by Bil Browning | July 11, 2010 7:00 AM |Russia Today took a lot at last week's DOMA decisions from Massachusetts and TheNewGay.net's Zack Rosen is up to bat for our side. He hits it out the park easily....Read More
