The great state of Oklahoma (where the wind comes sweepin’ down the plain) has somewhat unfortunately elected a raving bigot called Sally Kern as a Congressperson more than once. She’s well known notorious for describing homosexuality as a greater threat to America than terrorism or Islam (which by the way she does nevertheless think are [...]
Had a couple of days much-needed break at the weekend, driving with The Mrs and a friend of his who’s visiting down the coast to Big Sur. We took Highway One south from the city via Half Moon Bay, round Monterey and stopping for lunch in Carmel before heading on to our stopping place for the [...]
I love my bank in the UK. I love that they’re an online bank, but part of The Co-Operative Bank, and so governed by the Co-Op’s Ethical Policy. I love that I can be happy that my money’s not being used to support industries or regimes engaged in practices I don’t approve of. I love [...]
It’s odd how one person’s eye and mind can pick up on particular things which pass another’s by.
It was The Mrs who drew my attention to the current craze for labelling novels as novels. You know the kind of thing; The Nervousness of Clarissa Poole - A Novel (I just made that up, but now [...]
I do quite a lot of travelling, much (pretty well all of it really) by air. In recent years a couple of things have struck me.
One is that the standards of security applied to passengers varies wildly from airport to airport, country to county. Shoes on/shoes off. Laptops out of bags/laptops left in bags. Belts [...]
In around 15 minutes President Obama will be announcing a new extension to employment benefits for domestic partners of Federal employees. Woo. And indeed, Hoo.
Given that the extent of the change has already been announced, a great many commentators are already noting that this is pretty much the scraps from the table. In brief:
It’s a [...]
Next week, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) is holding a fundraising dinner ($1000+ a head) for LGBT ‘Leaders’ in a swanky hotel in Washington DC. The Vice-President will be in attendance, and the event is being hosted by former DNC Chair Howard Dean and three openly lesbian or gay representatives.
Obviously the event has been planned [...]
The New York Times has joined what’s feeling like a steadily growing groundswell of opposition to the DoJ’s defence of DOMA with an Editorial today.
Arguing, as others have, that even if the DoJ felt compelled to fight the case it could have done so without also putting the boot in to gay rights generally, The [...]
The significant global event of the last few days is of course the Iranian election, and specifically its fallout.
The reports coming out of the country trigger a combination of stunned amazement at the apparent transparency of the fraud (have you seen that graph which shows the growth of Ahmadinejad’s lead being almost entirely consistent across [...]
You have to read the ‘anger’ in the context. The letter I’m about to link to is really quite mild, but who it’s from and to give it huge significance.
Joe Solomonese is the president of the Human Rights Campaign, the most politically influential LGBT campaigning organisation in the US. They do good work, but are [...]
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