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Patty and I are both swamped. And next week she goes home to visit her family for about ten days. My kingdom for some uninterrupted us time, because she's awesome. Hey, at least England is coming up soon, and in the face of lots of work, we're actually being pretty good about staying sane and making time for each other. Oh spring.

Since I'm all about death things lately: A funeral is being held for IE6.

Controversy over POM Wonderful's assertion that drinking the stuff will give you more erections.

Hey, you thought the whole mess with New York State politics wasn't epic enough? Here's a random sidenote: Choking isn't even a felony here making it easier to minimize the domestic violence case at the current center of this mess.

DC Nightlife. Look, I lived there in the early 90s and couldn't understand why clubs let everyone in. I came from NYC. It confused me. Didn't you have to be good enough to get chosen?

An argument for taking gender out of the Oscars. For the record, I use the word "actor" for myself not because of gender queerness, but because I don't believe we need the word "actress" -- the article even notes (yay!) how the word is falling out of favor.

A Canadian politician says he didn't order chunks of information on LGBTQ rights deleted from a citizenship study guide, but the fact remains, if he didn't, someone else did.

Surprise, surprise. Anti-gay California politician arrested on DUI charges after leaving a gay bar with another man. Fuck you.

Gay marriage is now legal in DC. And you know what I'm noticing the most about the coverage? Acknowledgment of LGBTQ people of color of which there is waaaaaay too little of in general both from within the LGBTQ community and in the mainstream media.

Republican memo advises playing on "fear" of Obama.

Bigots: weirder than I thought. reannon links us to the AFA's post about how the killer whale that killed should be stoned to death.

Comments

[i-amthecosmos.livejournal.com]

My feelings about the California Senator and how his supporters might view this:

I was raised Southern Baptist, and their view on things is that everyone is tempted constantly by the devil. (Although I did have a pastor once say that in most cases, we were so weak that it was only minor demons working on us-we weren't even special enough to get the devil's attention.)

Anyway, a lot of born again Christians believe the world is a constant source of sin and temptation. They won't think in terms of "this guy is closeted" but "the devil tempted him with alcohol and sex with a man." And then they relate that to whatever they personally are tempted by, and forgive him. Because they're all being tempted. The vast majority of them don't believe that gayness is part of someone's identity, so it's only sin. And all sins are equal (or supposed to be).

So his religious base, for the most part, will forgive him, except for the few who realize they've been burned too many times.

[98.livejournal.com]

I am sure you are right but have they no trouble with the notion of a (allegedly) straight guy being tempted by sex with a man? My naive understanding of temptation is that the devil should offer you something you should not do but want to. Tempting with something you do not want seems ineffective whether you should or should not do it.