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  • We Need More Like This Guy

    He's a High School senior. I sent him an email that included this:I'm thrilled that young people like you are recognizing marriage equality for the civil rights issue it is. It's a matter that couldn't be more personal to me. I'm 53, and my life partner is 76. He became' [...]
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    Posted: October 13, 2009, 1:53am EDT

  • Death Panels? Please

    I read of what Sarah Palin is up to, and I conclude the woman is insane:The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based [...]
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    Posted: August 11, 2009, 2:16am EDT

  • BETRAYAL!!

    Image by Getty Images via DaylifeIt's been a long time since I posted here, but something very bad has happened.Barack Obama ran for president on a very gay-friendly basis, appealing directly to us and making many promises. (The photo is of marchers in the 2008 West Hollywood Gay Pride parade [...]
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    Posted: June 13, 2009, 6:32pm EDT

  • Wow, man

    The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, playing ..... no, I'll let you find that out for yourself. Happy New Year.' [...]
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    Posted: January 03, 2009, 5:11pm EST

  • Proposition 8

    Of course, I'm disappointed that it went through, even though I probably would not have taken advantage of it. A and I have been together over 30 years, and throwing a wedding at this point would seem a little silly, and after the fact. For better or for worse? In' [...]
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    Posted: November 29, 2008, 5:17pm EST

  • Brain Surgery Breakdown

    Often in brain surgery the patient is kept conscious through the process. With anesthetic and mild sedation, his responses to the surgeon's probes can help to focus in on just the right spot in his brain for intervention.Banjo player Eddie Adcock had been having trouble with a neurological problem causing' [...]
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    Posted: October 20, 2008, 9:42pm EDT

  • Blog You Must

    Andrew Sullivan has a good article, Why I Blog, in both the online and print versions of The Atlantic. It's a very good description of the blogging experience, a good introduction to the form for those who have never yet dared to jump into these hazardous waters, filled as they' [...]
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    Posted: October 16, 2008, 1:38pm EDT

  • No Questions, Please

    Here's McCain campaign manager Rick Davis explaining why Sarah Palin isn't giving any press conferences.So until at which point in time we feel like the news media is going to treat her with some level of respect and deference, I think it would be foolhardy to put her out into [...]
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    Posted: September 17, 2008, 4:51pm EDT

  • This is serious

    McCain seems to think his medical records are on a need-to-know basis, and that we don't need to know.He's wrong. We need to know. [...]
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    Posted: September 14, 2008, 2:28pm EDT

  • Evacuate

    Off to Mississippi again. [...]
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    Posted: August 29, 2008, 3:46pm EDT

  • Fucking Hell

    Yet another hurricane? It's looking more and more likely that Hurricane Gustav is going to chase us out of uptown New Orleans. Again. I mean, it's good, very good, wonderful even, that we were able to set up a place in Jackson, MS, we can evacuate to. But this running [...]
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    Posted: August 28, 2008, 11:19pm EDT

  • Some Things Never Change

    It seems that some battles have to be fought, some lessons learned, over and over again. Carl Schurz (1829-1906) was a German revolutionary who at 19 fled Germany after the unsuccessful Revolution of 1848. He wound up in America and threw himself into anti-slavery politics. During the Civil War he [...]
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    Posted: July 05, 2008, 5:40pm EDT

  • Prurient Interest.....

    ...it gets me every time. McMurdo Station is the largest permanent outpost in Antarctica, and its purpose is scientific research. During the summer it can house around 1,250 residents: scientists and their assistants, station staff, the odd reporter. When winter comes, everyone leaves except the core staff needed to keep [...]
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    Posted: June 12, 2008, 7:13pm EDT

  • Truth Revealed

    Do you remember the State of the Union speech President Bush gave in 2003 to justify his planned attack on Iraq? Actually you don't. My GP covert ops team has uncovered incontrovertible evidence that this supposedly live broadcast speech was a sophisticated media hoax, pulling the wool over all our [...]
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    Posted: May 13, 2008, 7:27pm EDT

  • Happy Mother's Day

    To honor all mothers everywhere, here is Anita Renfroe distilling it all down for you. If you are actively parenting at this time, it might be useful to play this every morning at breakfast and get it all out of the way.[Technical note: The subtitles, which are very helpful, are [...]
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    Posted: May 11, 2008, 5:11pm EDT

  • No Sympathy

    So the folks in Michigan and Florida are all upset that they aren't getting any delegates to the Democratic convention. Doesn't matter that it's their own stupid fault. Doesn't matter that their state party leaders were clearly warned that this would happen if they broke the rules by holding primaries [...]
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    Posted: May 07, 2008, 12:57pm EDT

  • History tells

    There's been talk about whether Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal might be under consideration as a running mate for John McCain. He's a very conservative Republican, an up and coming politico, and the first elected Indian-American state governor. That's Indian as Punjabi, not Comanche.I don't think it will happen, as I [...]
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    Posted: May 03, 2008, 9:50pm EDT

  • Cat Engineering

    The thing about the beasts is that they never have come with a users manual. Somebody's trying to remedy that.' [...]
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    Posted: April 30, 2008, 6:55pm EDT

  • Straight Talk Indeed

    It's a pity that people who really care about this election turn to the media only to find blathering about lapel pins and bowling scores, rather than, say, how to fix the economy. Not helpful. But in this Internet age at least we can go to the candidates' websites and [...]
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    Posted: April 19, 2008, 12:09am EDT

  • Our Robot Overlords

    This is absolutely creeping me out:I had no idea robotics had advanced to the point where a machine could do something like this. This thing - Big Dog, it's called - is amazing. It's easy to make a four-legged machine that just plods along in the direction you point it. [...]
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    Posted: March 26, 2008, 9:14pm EDT

  • I'm In Love with TED

    No, A and I aren't splitting up. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and it's the name of a conference held annually at Monterey Bay since 1984. It draws together over a thousand of the top people in a wide range of fields to meet, give presentations, talk, have a [...]
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    Posted: March 23, 2008, 3:29pm EDT

  • PULL!

    Or, how to keep a dachshund amused for hours and hours and hours... [...]
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    Posted: March 20, 2008, 3:58pm EDT

  • David Paterson of New york

    I'm fascinated by how David Paterson is going to do as the new governor of New York. I had never heard of the guy before the Spitzer governorship exploded, and I find that not only will he be only the third black governor since Reconstruction nationwide, but the first blind' [...]
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    Posted: March 14, 2008, 7:26pm EDT

  • We're Addicts. Or Cats.

    Interesting article in the Wall Street Journal, about how addictive browsing the web can be. The word "addictive" may be closer to the reality than is comfortable. Research suggests that humans get pleasurable feedback from encountering and processing new situations and new information, possibly even through the release of natural [...]
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    Posted: March 12, 2008, 7:26pm EDT

  • Spitzer: Isn't this what porn's for?

    Oh, jeez, here we go again. Another high-flying politician, New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, with presidential ambitions yet, a crusader for right and justice, the scourge of sleaze and crime, gets caught bumping a pricey hooker when he's out of town away from his wife. Worse, he actually imported her [...]
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    Posted: March 12, 2008, 12:42am EDT

  • Another [yawn] Election

    OK, this time it's Mississippi, just next door. It looks like Obama's winning this one too, which is fine with me. But the relentless, nonstop, breathless coverage is getting damn exhausting, especially as it's covering what is more and more a non-story. ("This just in! Dog bites man, Obama wins'" [...]
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    Posted: March 11, 2008, 8:16pm EDT

  • Got a complaint? Sing!!!

    Oh man, this is wonderful.In Finnish, there is an expression, "valituskuoro," which literally means "complaint choir." When a lot of people are griping about something, that's a complaint choir.Then a few years ago a pair of performance artists, Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen, thought, what if you took that phrase' [...]
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    Posted: March 09, 2008, 12:51am EST

  • We Are Lost

    Oh, shit. When these two guys start teaming up, you know we're in trouble.At least we know who his running mate will be. [...]
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    Posted: February 19, 2008, 6:47pm EST

  • Super Fat Tuesday

    Well here in New Orleans it's not Super Tuesday, and all those elections are not even a blip on the screen. It's what you see above. Fat Tuesday. Mardi Gras, ya know. Our primary will be Saturday, and I'll be a poll worker. It's likely to be a minuscule turnout, [...]
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    Posted: February 05, 2008, 6:14pm EST

  • New Orleans Business Model

    This is the way we do things here. [click to enlarge] Note: This was taken on Saturday of the weekend of the BCS college football national championship game. LSU -- the home team -- vs. Ohio State. There were LOTS of tourists in town, eager to spend money and have a [...]
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    Posted: January 26, 2008, 6:35pm EST

  • Damn

    This is so depressing. Heath Ledger [left], whose chiseled good looks made him a heartthrob to millions and who won movie fame for playing a tragic homosexual cowboy, was found dead in a Manhattan apartment today, police said. The body of the Australian actor, who won an Academy Award nomination for the [...]
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    Posted: January 23, 2008, 12:48am EST

  • That Tears It

    One of the more ridiculous little memes of this election is the one about Hillary Clinton's tears. You know the story. During a campaign stop at a coffee shop in Portsmouth, N.H., she got a little emotional after being asked why she was running and how she stood the pressure. [...]
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    Posted: January 10, 2008, 1:52pm EST

  • Suicide by Faith

    OK, it wasn't really suicide, as she didn't intend to die. It was an unintentional death, and tragic. What raises it to bizarre is that so many who loved and cared for her were forced to collude in her death. The reason: her faith. New Orleans had a cold snap last [...]
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    Posted: January 08, 2008, 3:03pm EST

  • Gay Side of Jon Stewart

    Gosh, I've been quiet. I can't resist sharing this, though. AfterElton is a pro blog produced by the gay cable channel Logo covering gay and bi men in entertainment and the media. They just did a terrific piece featuring clips from "The Daily Show" called "A Look Back at Jon [...]
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    Posted: October 31, 2007, 6:53pm EDT

  • The Shoggoth Party

    Hmm. I think I've found my political home. More to the point, an official bid for the presidency has been declared by Fred Thompson, the former actor/senator, if there's a difference. Now here's an interesting exercise. Go to Frederick of Hollywood's campaign website, http://www.fred08.com/. Read his official biography, what he wants [...]
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    Posted: September 09, 2007, 12:06am EDT

  • Video: "Jesse"

    "Jesse" is the first major American song & video release by gay Israeli singer Ivri Lider. He's highly popular there. I think it's lovely, winsome, and very sweet. [...]
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    Posted: August 12, 2007, 12:58am EDT

  • Perspective on the 35W

    So many outsiders were continuing to talk about the flooding of New Orleans as if it were an unavoidable weather event that I began using an analogy that I hoped would help them see it as the engineering failure it was. You expect bridges to hold up when you drive across [...]
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    Posted: August 03, 2007, 1:43pm EDT

  • Ol' Glowing-Red-Eyes Is Back

    I had no idea we had such a talented Vice-President. [...]
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    Posted: August 02, 2007, 3:43pm EDT

  • It Just Gets Worse

    "The odds of us still having a republic in anything but name only by January 2009 grows more remote every day." That's Nightshift at Shakesville, writing about this peachy new executive order released by the White House last week. Like him, I can't understand why the news media aren't calling more [...]
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    Posted: July 21, 2007, 12:08pm EDT

  • Joe D. Calls It

    When I lived in Los Angeles in the 80s I was privileged to know jazz clarinetist Joe Darensbourg. He was born in Baton Rouge in 1906. He told me of hearing brass bands that had come up from New Orleans to play parades, bands featuring incredible teenage cornet prodigy Louis [...]
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    Posted: July 18, 2007, 12:11am EDT

  • Mary Poppins. Fear her.

    You grew up with the Mary Poppins movie, didn't you? Of course you did. We all did. I may have even seen it in a theater when it was released. I'm not sure, but I would have been about eight, so it could be. But we all saw it on [...]
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    Posted: July 16, 2007, 12:36am EDT

  • Guitar -- Whoa!

    Xuefei Yang is 30, born in Beijing, China. For many years Asians have been getting really, really interested in Western music, often Classical music. And sometimes truly amazing performers emerge. Paganini is best known as the first superstar violin virtuoso. During his lifetime he was equally renowned for his performances on [...]
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    Posted: July 15, 2007, 12:47am EDT

  • Chapman Stick

    I'd heard of this thing long before I heard it played, but I didn't know much about it and wasn't much interested. But a few years ago I went into a place on Frenchmen Street in New Orleans that was part of the Satchmo Summerfest evening fest, the Satchmo Club [...]
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    Posted: July 11, 2007, 12:17am EDT

  • Who's tamed who?

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    Posted: June 30, 2007, 11:26pm EDT

  • Subpoena Time!

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    Posted: June 27, 2007, 4:20pm EDT

  • Squirrels Don't Let Squirrels Climb Drunk

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    Posted: June 27, 2007, 12:56am EDT

  • Get It Right, Jesse

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    Posted: June 23, 2007, 3:42pm EDT

  • Middle East: Is Somebody Finally Thinking?

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    Posted: May 27, 2007, 11:53pm EDT

  • Tragedy and Memory

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    Posted: April 18, 2007, 6:46pm EDT

  • What A Horse!

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    Posted: March 26, 2007, 6:27pm EDT
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