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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.

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That gender-neutral Oscars article makes me cringe for one reason: It imagines that we live in a non-sexist world. "Today, the number of female-run production companies, female directors and great roles for women continues to increase. Four of the five films represented in this year’s best actress category center on strong female characters." Well, that's great, but it's not going to make up for mountains' worth of ingrained sexism. The simple lack of female directing nominees in the award's history should make that clear.

All I see coming of that is the exact same arguments I saw for Publishers Weekly's all-male best books: What, you want a quota or something? All the best roles just happened to be performed by men!

It's a nice idea and all, but deeply unrealistic.