Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
My post the other day about the gay rights movement didn’t touch upon the movement’s merits. Instead, I posited that the movement grates on me because the Democrats are using it as an avoidance technique to distract people’s attention from the administration’s myriad failures in every area within the executive’s
Continue readingI’ve always thought of myself as someone who’s cool about gays. For many years, I could honestly say that many of my good friends, and some of my best friends, were gay. I didn’t appreciate their lifestyle excesses (especially because I lost a lot of friends to AIDS because of
Continue readingI know this is a politically incorrect thing for me to say, but I couldn’t care less about Michael Sam’s sexuality. If it were up to me, it wouldn’t be news at all, or it would be at the bottom of page three in the sports section. I’m not homophobic;
Continue readingGrowing up in San Francisco during the 1960s, I have very fragmented memories of an older time, when women still wore gloves, and both men and women wore hats. Most of my solid, coherent memories start kicking in with San Francisco’s Summer of Love, which very quickly turned into its
Continue readingIf Phil Robertson continues his refusal to bow down to the gods of political correctness, Lee Habeeb will have explained why: It had never happened before. When big, powerful TV executives ask a star to apologize for what they deem inappropriate comments or behavior, the star simply complies. A team
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Back in the day, the Monty Python team was famous not only for its nonsense (“Dead Parrot” anyone?) but also for its edgy, modern, topical humor. One of their most famous (and irritating) sketches was the “nudge nudge, wink wink” sketch, made all the way back in 1971 (officially known
Continue readingWe’ve become a profoundly un-serious nation. It’s one thing to be lighthearted; it’s another thing to be lacking in any ballast. The world burns around us, and we pander to GLAAD’s manufactured outrage.
Continue readingI linked obliquely to this video yesterday, but as the Phil Robertson matter heats up, I want to include the following Obamacare video here, with its focus on getting gay men to sign up. Please be warned that the video is vaguely NSFW. There’s no bad language, nudity, or sex,
Continue readingIn random order: 1. A&E is not a government entity and is within its rights to make insanely stupid, bigoted decisions. 2. Phil Robertson doesn’t need A&E but, judging by his show’s popularity, A&E needs him. 3. GLAAD is a fascist organization. A friend of mine who was watching CNN
Continue readingSince his first day in office, Obama has both passively and aggressively sought to undermine Israel. Unfortunately, he’s proven to be very good at that, which stands in stark contrast to his administrative ineptitude with Obamacare. Under Obama’s watch, Iran is getting near the nuclear bomb; the idea of a
Continue readingI understand that language changes. We don’t speak like this anymore: Whan that aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of march hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veyne in swich licour Of which vertu engendred is the flour; Or like this: Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf,
Continue readingI was in San Francisco during the peak AIDS years. I remember how death stalked the streets (many, many people I knew died) and I remember how deeply in denial the gay community was. The most visible sign of that denial was the fight to keep open the gay bath
Continue readingMy daughter went to our local library this weekend and brought home a bunch of the library’s recent acquisitions for teens. The inside jacket blurb describes them as fantasy or high school relationship books. My daughter said to me, “I don’t know why it is, Mom, but they all turn
Continue reading1. One of my conservative friends posted this on Facebook: 2. And one other great find on Facebook, apropros Bradley Manning’s announcement that, henceforth, he is to be known as a girl named “Chelsea”: “Breaking news! Due to an administrative error today, Bradley Manning was martyred and Maj Hassan was
Continue readingThe online magazine IndieWire has noted something interesting: movies with gay leading characters aren’t doing big box office. In the 90s, movies such as The Birdcage (based on the audience tested La Cage aux Folles), Philadelphia (about the still-headlining catching scourge AIDS), and In & Out (with a pleasing Kevin
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