For some unknown reason–and I’m definitely not complaining–the campus here at work seems particularly overrun today by hot young men. There’s never really a shortage of cute guys here–the new foreign service officer classes generally seem to include a good percentage–but today it was like an explosion of beefcake, a few of whom even turned […]
Conservative queer blogger and journalist Andrew Sullivan and I are in agreement today about some of the troubling subtext of Bill Frist’s remarks, particularly in regard to his support of a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage because of his belief that “marriage is a sacrament,” including a definition of it as being “between a man […]
Granted, this was in the works prior to last Thursday’s Supreme Court decision in Lawrence v. Texas, but it’s picking up some new steam with Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist’s statement yesterday on ABC’s This Week. As reported in The Washington Post, Frist said that he supports a proposed constitutional amendment to ban gay marriages, […]
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“Virginia is for Lovers” has been the tourism slogan of the Commonwealth of Virginia since sometime during my childhood. Yet this is a phrase that has always sounded hollow (and still sounds superficial and ridiculous) to me, a Virginian by birth and a resident for all but seven years of my life, given the familiar […]
In my previous entry about the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Lawrence et al. v. Texas, I reported that Justice Scalia, author of the dissent, stated that he had “nothing against homosexuals,” as quoted by the AP this morning, which quote conjures up the stereotypical comment of the racist that “I have nothing against black […]
The ruling is in, and in a 6-3 majority the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that a Texas law prohibiting consensual homosexual sex violated constitutional privacy rights. This decision, based as it is on privacy rather than equal protection, means that Virginia’s own sodomy law–which prohibits both heterosexual and homosexual sodomy–also is unconstitutional. I will […]
At the library a few weeks ago, I picked up some books from the sale table, at ten cents per paperback and twenty-five per hardcover. For those prices, I could take some risks; one of the paperbacks I picked up looked like the kind of urban fantasy genre that’s one of my guilty pleasures: Sister […]
Twenty-four percent of Americans surveyed in a recent ABC News/Washington Post poll actually believe that Iraq used biological or chemical weapons against U.S. troops during the war this spring–not just had or even had had biological or chemical weapons, but used them. And 56% would favor pre-emptively striking Iran as well, to prevent them from […]
I’m such a sucker for personality, intelligence and other (pseudo-)psychological tests, and Vernon has just drawn my attention to yet another (choose the link for “Do you use your left or right hemisphere more?”). My results: Your Brain Usage Profile Auditory : 53% Visual : 46% Left : 44% Right : 55% Thom, you show […]