Wow. The headline below pretty much says it all: “Michigan Preparing to Let Doctors Refuse to Treat Gays” Doctors or other health care providers could not be disciplined or sued if they refuse to treat gay patients under legislation passed Wednesday by the Michigan House. The bill allows health care workers to refuse service to […]
Today is a black-letter day in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As Equality Virginia reports, earlier this afternoon the state legislature ratified a bill that would outlaw any “partnership contract or other arrangements that purport to provide the benefits of marriage,” with the likely chilling effect of stripping such otherwise legal contractual agreements between same-sex partners […]
Shortly after posting my previous item about seeing Elegies: A Song Cycle last night, I received the following email from Metro Weekly in my inbox: For a chance to WIN A PAIR OF FREE TICKETS to Signature Theatre’s production of William Finn’s ELEGIES: A SONG CYCLE, please send an email to <wintix@metroweekly.com> with the word […]
Last night Jeff and I went to see William Finn’s Elegies: A Song Cycle at Signature Theatre here in Arlington. It was a simple but very well-performed and powerful production of two dozen songs Finn (best known for his Falsettos musicals on Broadway) wrote to memorialize the dead and dying people (and, in one case, […]
Next Sunday I’m heading to a government IT conference in Cambridge, Maryland on the Chesapeake Bay. I was looking at the web site of the event hotel–the Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay Golf Resort, Spa and Marina–which in some ways sounds pretty sweet: its own 18,000 square-foot spa, attached marina, multi-level indoor and outdoor pool, etc. […]
My site has been moved (relatively) smoothly and successfully from its old host to its new. I’m having some trouble with the automatic crossposting to my LiveJournal site, but I’m confident I’ll work out the kinks soon. I’m in off-site training all this week, without access to the Internet (and in fact they confiscate our […]
Jeff already has posted about our delightful brunch at David Greggory earlier today, after he performed his duty as a Christmas-Easter Catholic (I did my part by driving him to the Metro but, as pretty much a naturalistic pantheist/atheist I didn’t even bother going to my own liberal Unitarian-Universalist services today). I enjoyed the brunch […]
Over the next few days, I’ll be moving my site from one hosting provider to another. Since the new hosting provider offers PHP and MySQL, not available at the same price point on my current host, I probably will reinstall Movable Type from scratch to take advantage of the additional functionality. Because of this, and […]
This evening after work I picked Jeff up at the Metro and we headed over to Alexandria Toyota, where we’d been invited to a new owners’ “Thank You” event. After all, they promised food and drink, door prizes, and a coupon for a free oil change just for attending. For some reason I was thinking […]
After telling my stylist–the wonderful John Cullen at Studio 2000, where I’ve been going since 1996, just above Larry’s Ice Cream on Connecticut Avenue half a block north of Lambda Rising–that I was conflicted about whether to stay long or go short, but that I’d been getting a fair number of comments on the longer, […]