Bookworm on Jan 09 2013 | Filed under: Gay marriage, GBLT, Second Amendment
Tweet One of my Facebook friends posted the following: The libertarian in me agrees with a lot of the post. I’d like government to stop playing nanny to people. It would make for smaller, cheaper, and less intrusive government, not to mention more individual freedom and personal responsibility. But, as the Sesame Street song used [...]
Bookworm on Nov 21 2012 | Filed under: GBLT, Israel, Media matters
Tweet I have to admit that I can’t stomach more than one or two seconds at a time of Rachel Maddow. She’s such a party hack that, even if one stops pretending that she’s a journalist, she doesn’t come anywhere near being entertaining. She’s also in touch with her Leftism by being fiercely anti-Israel (an [...]
Bookworm on Nov 01 2012 | Filed under: GBLT
Tweet There is a long-running debate about whether homosexuals can “change” their basic sexual identity. I have no idea. I assume that a motivated homosexual can subordinate his identity. People fight their biological urges all the time. Whether that person is truly “changed” is another matter. Perhaps it’s just a linguistics thing: “subordinate” does or [...]
Bookworm on Sep 21 2012 | Filed under: Gay marriage, GBLT
Tweet I blogged the other day about the fact that Chick-fil-A seemed to have pulled a Komen and caved. Now they’ve issued another statement, plus a statement from Huckabee. These two statements seem to indicate that Chick-fil-A carefully carved out a loophole for itself. All I can say is Hmmm…. It’s hard to do business [...]
Bookworm on Sep 18 2012 | Filed under: GBLT
Tweet Shunned by the LG[B]T community, despite their ostensible inclusion in the LGBT community, bisexuals are finally having their day in Berkeley. For all of those who thought people who swing both ways have the best of both worlds (i.e., doubling their number of potential partners), how wrong you are. They suffer in the same [...]
Bookworm on Jul 27 2012 | Filed under: GBLT, Political correctness
Tweet I was living in England back in 1981 when Chariots of Fire was first released. It’s been a while since it came out, but you probably remember that it was a movie based upon the true story of two actual British runners (and their fictional friends) preparing for the 1924 Olympics. I loved that [...]
Bookworm on May 13 2012 | Filed under: Barack Obama, GBLT, Media matters
Tweet Yesterday, I got to be snarky about Time Magazine’s aggressive breast feeding cover (and if “aggressive breast feeding” isn’t a post-modern liberal oxymoron, I don’t know what is). Today, I get to poke fun at Newsweek, for it’s “Obama : The First Gay President” cover: Newsweak isn’t actually claiming that the President is gay. [...]
Bookworm on Feb 07 2012 | Filed under: GBLT
Tweet I mentioned in an earlier post the interesting fact that, on my Facebook page, it is my straight friends, not my gay friends, who are the most enthusiastic supporters of gay marriage. This is not to say that my gay friends are slacking in their support. They just lack the enthusiasm. For every one [...]
Bookworm on Feb 04 2012 | Filed under: Gay marriage, GBLT
Tweet Cassie Jay is a young woman who makes unabashedly Leftist films. Back, in 2010, she made a documentary called “Daddy I Do” that attacked abstinence-only education. Even in liberal Marin, this movie caused a bit of a kerfuffle, as the local art cinema first agreed to show it, then backed off from that agreement, [...]
Bookworm on Dec 07 2011 | Filed under: GBLT
Tweet My morning just got a wee bit complicated, so I won’t write the long, elegant post I’d imagined in my head when I read that Obama was pledging U.S. dollars to making the world safe for gays. There’s nothing wrong with making the world safe for gays. I heartily approve. What got my goat [...]
Bookworm on Jun 15 2011 | Filed under: GBLT
Tweet The following letter went out to all NASA employees: I’m not focusing on the merits of the Administrator’s statements. I’m just wondering about the appropriateness of NASA’s Administrator taking it upon himself to be an LGBT spokesperson, broadcasting those views on NASA’s behalf to the entire NASA community. I was under the impression that [...]
Bookworm on Apr 12 2011 | Filed under: Education, GBLT
Tweet Okay, I’ll admit that my post title is awkward, but it sums up what California State Senator Mark Leno is trying to do in California public schools: namely, put a person’s sexuality front and center, with a tag-on coda about the person’s actual accomplishments. This isn’t the first time a gay California legislator has [...]
Bookworm on Feb 10 2011 | Filed under: GBLT
Tweet We hear about a lot of firsts. Kennedy was our first Catholic president. Reagan our first actor president. Obama our first black president. But did you know that, long ago, we almost certainly had our first gay president? Yup. I’ve now read in two scholarly, sourced books that James Buchanan was considered by his [...]
Bookworm on Jan 12 2011 | Filed under: Britain, England, GBLT
Tweet I’d like to think this is a joke, but modern Britain being modern Britain, I’m actually sure it’s not. One can only hope that at least some people will give the correct response to such an intrusive, inappropriate question: “Bugger off!” Are you straight or gay? Police and nurses to be asked their sexuality [...]
Bookworm on Jan 08 2011 | Filed under: GBLT, Military
Tweet When I blogged about Capt. Owen Honors, I made the point that we cannot have delicate flowers in the military. Moral, decent people — yes. Delicate people — no. It turns out that at least some of the gays and lesbians serving on the USS Enterprise fully understood this point. Kudos to those men [...]
Bookworm on Dec 19 2010 | Filed under: Education, GBLT, Military
Tweet 1. Bruce Kesler looks at the ramifications of the repeal of DADT. 2. The Ivy Leagues say they’ll allow military recruiters back on campus (which at least ends their hypocrisy of taking federal feds but denying the feds access). See here and here. I wonder if that will have a measurable effect on future [...]
Bookworm on Dec 01 2010 | Filed under: GBLT
Tweet My younger readers, assuming I have any, don’t remember that, throughout the Cold War, the Communists, especially the East Germans, were reputed to be using feminized men to compete in women’s Olympic events. The benefit, of course, is that, no matter how the feminists try to deny it, men are stronger than women and, [...]
Bookworm on Nov 04 2010 | Filed under: Children, GBLT, Sex
Tweet There is a post zooming around the liberal side of the internet, in which a mom says her son is gay . . . no, he’s not . . . yes, he is . . . who really cares? The genesis for this post was the fact that her 5 year old son wanted [...]
Bookworm on Oct 27 2010 | Filed under: GBLT, Homosexuality, Islam, Muslim violence
Tweet I’m beginning to get a good sense of the requirements for a writing gig at the New York Times. Their editorial and employment departments carefully cull all comers for two main traits: an IQ that doesn’t exceed the double digits, and a complete lack of common sense and logic. Walk into the door with [...]
Bookworm on Sep 23 2010 | Filed under: GBLT, Military
Tweet I’m very conflicted about gays serving openly in the military. To me, the military is an institution that must function optimally. It’s mission cannot be compromised to satisfy social experimentation. Nevertheless, gays have served and will continue to serve with distinction — provided that they keep secret a significant part of their self-identity, a [...]
Bookworm on Sep 21 2010 | Filed under: GBLT, Immigration, Military
Tweet The media is very disappointed that a defense spending bill went down in flames, not over the question of spending, but over the issue of DADT. The headline at Politico says it all: Senate Republicans block ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ repeal. You see, Republicans hate gay people. Really, really hate them. Or at least [...]
Bookworm on Aug 25 2010 | Filed under: Conservative ideology, Gay marriage, GBLT
Tweet Yesterday I mentioned John Hawkin’s post explaining why he is sponsoring HomoCon. I thought a nice companion piece would be Nick Gillespie’s post reprinting the HomoCon platform, a platform I think that all conservatives will find agreeable. Remember (as if you, my dear readers, ever forget): Unlike the statists/regressives/so-called liberals, we are not the [...]
Bookworm on May 11 2010 | Filed under: GBLT, Judges
Tweet I know that much is being said amongst both Progressives and Conservatives about Kagan’s possible lesbianism. Progressives are mad at her for being in the closet; Conservatives are worried about her orientation affecting her rulings as a Supreme Court judge. Both are completely wrong. Regarding the Progressive’s disdain for Kagan’s decision to keep her [...]
Bookworm on May 04 2010 | Filed under: Britain, England, Free speech, GBLT, Homosexuality
Tweet In 1931, Nancy Langhorne Astor’s son Robert Gould Shaw III was arrested for committing a homosexual act (in a park, I believe). This was a continuation of a long-standing British public policy of prosecuting “sodomists.” Arguably the most famous prosecution was that against Oscar Wilde, for public indecency. The trial, scandal and imprisonment destroyed [...]
Bookworm on Apr 22 2010 | Filed under: GBLT, Identity politics
Tweet In my previous post, I talked about the way in which the Left desperately tries to cubby-hole people, events and ideas, without any real understanding of what lies beneath those labels. Seconds after I finished writing that post, I read this newspaper article, which sounds like a parody, but isn’t: All Steven Apilado, LaRon [...]
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