Gay men and our dogs.

Will and I are at a friend’s house in Palm Springs. Seven guys and six dogs. Those are the mutts Lucas and Chloe, and four purebred (we think) golden retrievers. Lucas is best frenemies with the golden lying next him. They wrestle constantly. Chloe is so much smaller than all [...]

As a follow-up to my post, NOM’s Special Right, I got this comment from Betsy, a moderator at Ruthblog. As thoroughly as I disagree with her on most everything we’ve talked about, I’ve never viewed her in the same light as I do many NOM folk, so in response to her request, I’m highlighting this message.

Hi, [...]

NOM has decided to ban a contributor to one of its blogs.  Not a commenter, mind you (that would be nothing new), but a contributor, an official NOM blogger:

We at the Ruth blog have decided to no longer allow Ari to have posting privileges over here.  His sarcasm has gone over the line and we [...]

Just a little something light to balance the grim pics in my last post.

Story here.

The Internets are busting with Photoshopped versions of this pic.

For instance, pepper spraying the Constitution:

There’s a whole array of these mashups here, where you can also get a Photoshop-ready version of the figure.

Here’s mine:

This is powerful.

Start with this video of UC Davis Police Officer Lt. John Pike pepper spraying a group of seated students on the UC Davis campus. You only need watch a few seconds.

Now watch the students’ protest later. All they do is silently watch UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi walk to her car.

That’s all.

UPDATE: I [...]

Read the headline in a sing-song voice.

Someone came to my site through this link.  All I can figure is that somebody tried to pass off one of my blog entries on their own.  The teacher, obviously blown away by the extraordinary and edifying effects of my eloquent, er, eloquence, decided to check whether the student [...]

Paul Krugman’s getting praise for a recent New York Times column. Some say it “demolishes familiar arguments made by unnamed hacks.”

I don’t see it.

Here’s what Krugman wrote:

Oh, and let me give a special shout-out to “centrist” pundits who won’t admit that President Obama has already given them what they want. The dialogue seems to go [...]

Same-sex “marriage.”

Grrr.  Anti-gays do love their scare quotes, as in:

Them:  There’s no such thing as same-sex “marriage.”

Us:  Hello? Same-sex marriage is legal in 6 states!

Them is wrong, but the response from Us doesn’t get at what they really mean. And when you look at what they really mean, a surprising conclusion [...]