Charlie Booker has written the funniest, most on-point thing I've yet read on this whole non-existant mosque that isn't even at "Ground Zero" (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/aug/23/charlie-brooker-ground-zero-mosque):
Perhaps spatial reality functions differently on the other side of the Atlantic, but here in London, something that is "two minutes' walk and round a corner" from something else isn't actually "in" the same place at all. I once had a poo in a pub about two minutes' walk from Buckingham Palace. I was not subsequently arrested and charged with crapping directly onto the Queen's pillow. That's how "distance" works in Britain.
My sister is dating a Second Lieutenant who recently graduated from West Point. He's a straight guy and said he didn't know any queer people in his time at college because they were all in hiding. At least he's smart enough to recognize that it's a paranoia-inducing environment for queer people and not that they just don't exist in the military.
Sadly, at a recent West Point dinner/event, a bunch of the guys performed skits in which a bunch of them acted like stereotypical gay men for laughs, so gays can apparently honorably serve their country and be punchlines for yucks, but they can't identify themselves. I give Ms. Miller credit for putting up in that environment for as long as she did. I'd have cracked.
Btw, your link about Afghan schoolgirls being poisoned isn't working :(
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Date: 2010-08-25 02:26 pm (UTC)My sister is dating a Second Lieutenant who recently graduated from West Point. He's a straight guy and said he didn't know any queer people in his time at college because they were all in hiding. At least he's smart enough to recognize that it's a paranoia-inducing environment for queer people and not that they just don't exist in the military.
Sadly, at a recent West Point dinner/event, a bunch of the guys performed skits in which a bunch of them acted like stereotypical gay men for laughs, so gays can apparently honorably serve their country and be punchlines for yucks, but they can't identify themselves. I give Ms. Miller credit for putting up in that environment for as long as she did. I'd have cracked.
Btw, your link about Afghan schoolgirls being poisoned isn't working :(