According to the new director of the Office of Special Counsel, which oversees complaints of discrimination in hiring and firing in the federal government, while I still can’t be fired or demoted for gay behaviors, I can now be fired or demoted simply for being gay, and there’s no one to whom I can appeal. […]
Despite the fact that my family tree has been firmly rooted in the U.S. for many generations, and that I’m clearly a mongrel descended, at a minimum, from English, Irish, Welsh, Scot, German and Dutch forebears, I’ve always identified more closely with my Irish ancestry than any other. To be more accurate, I’ve identified with […]
Today on Rebel Prince, Jeff writes about cartoonist William Haefeli, pointing out some of his gay-themed ‘toons available at the New Yorker‘s Cartoon Bank, a great resource for framed and matted prints, original art and other gifts based on the cover art and cartoons from the magazine. I’m a fan of Haefeli as well, but […]
Every now and then I get a piece of spam that actually makes me smile. The ones that seemingly have been run through a translation engine from an Asian language into English, like the one I received today, occasionally can be mildly amusing: Hello my sweetheart lascivious friend! Expect I have wonderful intelligence and superb […]
Both Jeff and Cornelia already have reported on our dinner together last night, though I did at least beat them to the punch in getting a few pictures from the evening uploaded before I went to bed. Dinner was great. Annie’s is loud, crowded and smoky, yes, and the music selection last night was a […]
The guy at the urinal next to mine just a few minutes ago was talking away merrily on his cell phone the whole time. I keep imagining what the person on the other end of that conversation must have been thinking.
It’s been a while since I participated in a blog meme, but I do like the one that I’ve seen circulating on a number of LiveJournals: Type your first name into Google, click on the “Images” tab, and then “Google Search.” Choose an image from the first page of results. For the name I generally […]
Tonight after dinner with Cornelia and Kat (an adorable, delightful couple, but more on that later), the four of us were standing outside Annie’s near a psychic who had set up a couple of chairs on the sidewalk, where she was inviting people to have their cards read. A man walking near them apparently tripped […]
Earlier today I added a quicklink about MyStacks.com, a site that lets you create auto-refreshing lists of links generated from the results of searches in blogs and other syndicated resources on terms that you select. For now I’ve added a stack containing the ten most recent search results for the phrase “gay marriage” to the […]
Last June, I posted an entry about the depressingly ultraconservative politics of Virginia, the state in which I was born and where I now live, with only a 7-8 year gap during and after college. I think it’s not hyperbole to suggest that Virginia, for whatever possible reason I cannot fathom, may be the most […]