IL-14: We can do this thing!
We all know that J. Dennis "I see nothing! I know nothing!" Hastert is in deep trouble because of his actions inactions in l'affaire Mark Foley. Just today, the Decider-in-Chief decided to grace us...
View ArticleMatthew 24:6
So I woke up this morning to the news that North Korea is denouncing U.N. sanctions imposed on it in the wake of its purported nuclear weapons test last week. According to an AP report in the WaPo: The...
View ArticleWhat's your fucking problem? (WYFP!) Ersatz edition
Won't you please share the joy of WYFP by recommending? WYFP is our community's Saturday evening gathering to talk about our problems, empathize with one another, and perhaps share advice. Everyone and...
View ArticleLies, damned lies, and statistics
The 2008 presidential campaign is, for all intents and purposes, underway. Pundits and political analysts have noted, at least in passing, the breadth and depth of the Democratic field, but most of the...
View ArticleWhat's Your F*cking Problem? (WYFP?)
WYFP is our community's Saturday evening gathering to talk about our problems, empathize with one another, and share advice, pootie pictures, favorite adult beverages, and anything else that we think...
View ArticleWhat's Your F*cking Problem?, fill-in edition (WYFP?)
WYFP is our community's Saturday evening gathering to talk about our problems, empathize with one another, and share advice, pootie pictures, favorite adult beverages, and anything else that we think...
View ArticleWhat's your f**king problem?, Vive la France! edition (WYFP?)
WYFP is our community's Saturday evening gathering to talk about our problems, empathize with one another, and share advice, pootie pictures, favorite adult beverages, and anything else that we think...
View ArticleHelp homeless kids go to college
I was in a meeting this afternoon at work when I heard something that maybe my fellow Kossacks can help out with. There's a bill sitting in Congress that would make it easier for homeless kids to apply...
View ArticleWhat's your f**king problem?, Bastille Day edition
WYFP is our community's Saturday evening gathering to talk about our problems, empathize with one another, and share advice, pootie pictures, favorite adult beverages, and anything else that we think...
View ArticleSix years on
We are six years on from the latest date in American history that will live in infamy, to borrow a phrase from a much better orator and a galactically better president than the Boy Who Would Be King...
View ArticleWhat's your f**king problem?, What did I forget? edition
WYFP is our community's Saturday evening gathering to talk about our problems, empathize with one another, and share advice, pootie pictures, favorite adult beverages, and anything else that we think...
View ArticleWhat's your f**king problem? Holiday edition
WYFP is our community's Saturday evening gathering to talk about our problems, empathize with one another, and share advice, pootie pictures, favorite adult beverages, and anything else that we think...
View ArticleDems equally good (and bad) on gay rights
There have been a number of diaries here recently on the issue of gay rights and the top three Democratic candidates' respective stances on that issue. (Obama has probably gotten more of the attention...
View ArticleClinton and Obama: Two peas in a pod
Like mcjoan and many other Democrats and denizens of Left Blogistan, I find myself less than completely thrilled by our two remaining candidates for the presidential nomination. I wanted more--and this...
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Update on the NIU shootings (updated x2)
Jesus Christ, inner Light, Let not our own darkness conquer us. Jesus Christ, inner Light, Enable us to welcome Your love. --Suzanne Toolan, RSM That song was to have been the signature text for...
View ArticleWhat's your f***ing problem? Holy Hell Week edition
WYFP is our community's Saturday evening gathering to talk about our problems, empathize with one another, and share advice, pootie pictures, favorite adult beverages, and anything else that we think...
View ArticleWhat's your f***ing problem?, fill-in edition
WYFP is our community's Saturday evening gathering to talk about our problems, empathize with one another, and share advice, pootie pictures, favorite adult beverages, and anything else that we think...
View ArticleWhat's your f***ing problem, Obama/FISA-free fill-in edition
WYFP is our community's Saturday evening gathering to talk about our problems, empathize with one another, and share advice, pootie pictures, favorite adult beverages, and anything else that we think...
View ArticleWhat's your f***ing problem?, Edwards-free edition
WYFP is our community's Saturday evening gathering to talk about our problems, empathize with one another, and share advice, pootie pictures, favorite adult beverages, and anything else that we think...
View ArticleTroops to leave Iraq beginning next June?
Apologies if this has been covered elsewhere; I scanned the recent diary list and the front page but didn't see anything about it. According to Le Monde (linked article is in French; I haven't yet seen...
View ArticleA lion passes
Pioneering lesbian activist Del Martin has died, aged 87. She had been in declining health for some time, but thankfully lived long enough to be able to marry her partner of 55 years, Phyllis Lyon, on...
View ArticleNIH director to step down next month
Elias Zerhouni, who has been the head of the National Institutes of Health since 2002, has announced he will step down at the end of next month. The official reason is that he wants to "...pursue...
View ArticleWhat's your f**king problem?, Pet peeves edition
WYFP is our community's Saturday evening gathering to talk about our problems, empathize with one another, and share advice, pootie pictures, favorite adult beverages, and anything else that we think...
View ArticleWhat's your f**king problem?, fill-in edition
WYFP is our community's Saturday evening gathering to talk about our problems, empathize with one another, and share advice, pootie pictures, favorite adult beverages, and anything else that we think...
View ArticleWhat's your f***ing problem?, fill-in edition
WYFP is our community's Saturday evening gathering to talk about our problems, empathize with one another, and share advice, pootie pictures, favorite adult beverages, and anything else that we think...
View Article11/04 redux: déjà vu all over again
As I've been hanging around the site the last few days, watching all the Warren diaries come and go, and doing my best to combat some of the more obvious manifestations of ignorance and stupidity in...
View ArticleWhat's your f***ing problem?, arranged fill-in edition (WYFP?)
WYFP is our community's Saturday evening gathering to talk about our problems, empathize with one another, and share advice, pootie pictures, favorite adult beverages, and anything else that we think...
View ArticleChange we shouldn't believe in
I suppose it was only a matter of time before someone tried to make a little political hay out of the political mess that is Illinois politics right now. And Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold fired the...
View ArticleWhat's your f***ing problem (WYFP)?, hockey and exam edition
WYFP is our community's Saturday evening gathering to talk about our problems, empathize with one another, and share advice, pootie pictures, favorite adult beverages, and anything else that we think...
View Article"How many years can some people exist..."
Before they're allowed to be free?" Bob Dylan penned those words the year before I was born, but they ring just as true today. But it's the next couplet from "Blowin' in the Wind" that's on my mind...
View ArticleTsunami strikes American Samoa
This will necessarily be short, as information is just beginning to come in, but: SYDNEY (Reuters) - A series of tsunamis smashed into the Pacific island nations of American and Western Samoa killing...
View ArticleWhat's your f***ing problem? (WYFP?), New Year's edition
WYFP (which stands for "What's Your Fucking Problem?") is our community's Saturday evening gathering to talk about our problems, empathize with one another, and share advice, pootie pictures, favorite...
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WYFP?, It'll never be V-day again for me edition
WYFP (which stands for "What's Your Fucking Problem?") is our community's Saturday evening gathering to talk about our problems, empathize with one another, and share advice, pootie pictures, favorite...
View ArticleBreaking: Turn up the heat on DADT repeal
This just in from Servicemembers Legal Defense Network: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN), a national, legal services and policy organization dedicated to ending "Don't...
View ArticleThose whom memory forgot: Hitler's gay victims
October is GLBT History Month, an annual occurrence dedicated to remembering people who were gay, lesbian, bi, or trans, and the events that shaped them--or which they shaped. But far too many people,...
View ArticleFrance to legalize same-gender marriage?
It's early days yet, but there's potentially some good news for gays and lesbians in France, if not the U.S. Le Monde is reporting (linked article is in French; my translation of the relevant parts...
View ArticleSOUL Kos: A manifesto-y thing
Just before the transition to this shiny new playground, dirkster42 republished his diary On the Invisibility of the Religious Left. I made a suggestion there that we might want to start a group...
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It'll never be Valentine's Day for me again
(This is a reposting, with minor modifications, of a diary I published in WYFP? a year ago yesterday.) Most of the world United States will be celebrating Valentine's Day today. But February 14 has a...
View ArticleIllinois repeals death penalty
This will be a short one, since I don't have much in the way of comment except to say "Woohoo!" Illinois Governor Pat Quinn has finally signed legislation repealing Illinois's death penalty.
View ArticleBrothers and Sisters: Change our hearts edition
Welcome to Brothers and Sisters, the weekly meetup for prayer* and community at Daily Kos. We put an asterisk on pray* to acknowledge that not everyone uses conventional religious language, but may...
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Zion National Park
Zion National Park was the first national park located in Utah. Located adjacent to the town of Springdale, Utah, the park contains 229 square miles (590 square kilometers) of protected land. The main...
View ArticleBrothers and Sisters: Christ is Risen!
Welcome to Brothers and Sisters, the weekly meet-up for prayer* and community at Daily Kos. We put an asterisk on pray* to acknowledge that not everyone uses conventional religious language, but may...
View ArticleKing & Spalding withdraw from DOMA case; Paul Clement resigns: Updated x7
No details yet, just this from the ACLU's LGBT Twitter feed: BREAKING: King & Spaulding [sic] - firm hired by House to defend #DOMA against ACLU/Edie Windsor lawsuit - withdraws! More soon… #LGBT...
View ArticleI don't intend to apologize for not liking the president
Why? Because it's not my job to like the president--this one or any other. Of whatever race, creed, color, gender, or sexual orientation. Unless I happen to be in love with him or married to him, in...
View ArticleSOUL Kos Friday Open Thread
We haven't had one of these in a while, and since it's such a lovely day (well, here in the Midwest anyway--first time the sun's been out and the temperature's been above 50 degrees in at least a...
View ArticleOn heterosexual privilege
I'm not sure where he got it (he doesn't source it, but makes it clear it isn't original to him), but fitness blogger and gay activist Davey Wavey has an interesting little list of forty things the...
View ArticleSome good news on the HIV/AIDS front
ScienceNOW published an encouraging update this afternoon on the results of two pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) trials in sub-Saharan Africa. To quote the opening paragraph of the report: It's a bad...
View ArticleThat's more like it, Mr. President! (Obama endorses DOMA repeal: Updated with...
The Courage Campaign is reporting (sorry, it's mainly a donation link--but it's the only one I've been able to find thus far) that, after 25,000 campaign members contacted the White House to urge the...
View ArticleWhen memory is lost (updated x2)
For GLBT History Month last October, I published a diary about a largely overlooked and under-studied chapter of gay history: the Nazis' persecution of homosexuals under Paragraph 175 of the German...
View ArticleBrothers and Sisters: Doce me quaerere te
Welcome to Brothers and Sisters, the weekly meetup for prayer* and community at Daily Kos. We put an asterisk on pray* to acknowledge that not everyone uses conventional religious language, but may...
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