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 [...]
Richard Socarides, an openly gay former Clinton aide, writes in Americablog today on the DoJ’s defence of DOMA.
And Pam’s House Blend, in linking and commenting on Socarides’ piece notes:
Who’s holding this administration hostage to PTSD fears of Clinton and DADT in 1993? It’s 2009, toadies. This administration, sitting atop high approval ratings with a minority party [...]
A while back I mentioned that in light of the passage of Proposition 8 here in California, and similar political debates around the US, I’d probably be keeping a political angle here for a while, then I went quiet and it didn’t really happen.
That changes today.
Today is the day the the Obama Adminstration, the Administration [...]
From afar, I’ve followed the saga of “Fred the Shred”’s astronomical pension from Royal Bank of Scotland via online news and The News Quiz. For anyone who isn’t familiar with it, Sir Fred Goodwin, the former head of the bank and the man who steered it to the brink of collapse before it was bailed [...]
Or at the very least some journalists who know how to write.
It’s a long-standing point in our house that the BBC News site has become an abomination in the eyes of anyone who values good writing, properly structured and with all the punctuation in the right places, so shoddy has it become. But every [...]
Way back after the successful passage of Proposition 8 by 52% of Californians who voted, I said I would write up my thoughts on the way the ‘No on Prop 8′ campaign had been run. In the end I didn’t do that because there was a rush to do so in other channels and by [...]
The California Court of Appeals has ruled that it’s ‘unconstitutional’ for the State to restrict the sale of violent video games to minors. Legislators had suggested that the local obscenity laws which restrict the sale of sexual content should also apply to violent content.
No no no, says the court.
It’s obviously not the first time that [...]
… I’ve reached the point where I read about that mad old bastard’s the Pope’s “mankind needs to be saved from gay and trans people” speech in bed last night and just raised my eyes.
Which is dangerous of course, because like it or not, the evil former Nazi His Holiness does have a lot of sway [...]
The San Francisco Chronicle is the closest thing San Francisco seems to have to a newspaper of record, and some of its reporting is pretty fine. Some of it, however, seems to fall barely into the category of news at all. And it’s making me feel conflicted about what’s the closest thing to a reasonable [...]
When I left the house this morning, I noticed the moon over the rooftops looked bigger and brighter than I could recall for a long time. Probably just some trick of the conditions, I thought, after admiring it for a few minutes and went on my way.
But no - it’s actually closer at the moment [...]
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