Micheal Guest is the former US Ambassador to Romania, and was the first openly gay US Ambassador confirmed by the Senate. He resigned, after years of service to the country, in 2007, and on his departure delivered a scathing indictment of the State Department and specifically the then-Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice for their lack [...]
Ah yes, this is clearly going to run and run.
Now that La Palin is talking in a limited way to select media outlets about her resignation and the hot topic, whether she thinks she’ll run for national office in 2010, a whole new raft of contradictory nonsense and non-sequitur rambling has drifted within range of [...]
Sarah Palin’s unquestionably odd decision not merely not to seek re-election next year, but actually to resign this month hit on Friday, a day which, it’s been noted by many, was a holiday and when most Americans were off work, chilling with family, and assembling Home Depot barbecues ahead of the 4th. A slow news [...]
It’s an odd time, considering it’s immediately post-Pride and the 40th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, which kick-started the gay rights movement (as it was then called). This weekend, the same weekend that San Francisco was demonstrating that it’s a hugely inclusive city, police officers raided a new gay bar in Fort Worth, Texas, arresting [...]
Obviously a tragic loss after the early fightback against her cancer, and only the day after it was reported that she and Ryan O were going to be married.
But also poor Farrah because now that freak Michael Jackson has also died today, no one’s going to give a damn about her.
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 [...]
