During the hospitalization in September 2004 when we found out that my life partner, Margaret Ardussi, was dying, one of the nurses commented to me on our devotion to one another and then said, “I’ve only seen that level of devotion from gay couples.” Wow. I believe that legalizing gay marriage will strengthen the institution, …
Monthly Archives: February 2009
Picture of Dorian Obama
I met Ed Morrissey of Hot Air at Bloggers Row at CPAC for the first time today and I have to say he is a scholar and a gentleman. He asked me how I first started on the path from liberalism to conservatism and I promised him I would write a post on this part …
Scent of a woman
I passed within a few feet of Ann Coulter today while she was giving a radio interview with Joyce Kaufman of 850WFTL on Radio Row at CPAC in Washington, D.C. I just want y’all to know that Ms. Coulter in person has a touching air of vulnerability to her, which surprised me. She also has …
Yes, I can
Yesterday I attended the first of two meetings on Conservatism 2.0 at CPAC in Washington, D.C., and when one of the panelists specifically included lesbians and gays as people that conservatism should look to welcome, I made bold to speak. Oh, wait, now I remember, actually, then I felt a lot better about making bold …
The enemy at the gate
My father attended the University of California at Berkeley in the 1930’s and early 40’s studying nuclear physics from undergrad through Ph.D. under Robert Oppenheimer and Ernest Lawrence with Nobel laureate Emilio Segre as his doctoral thesis advisor. His family lived near the university so he took the tram for seven cents, or walked a …
Favorite bumper sticker of the day
We live near a military base and in this county we take our patriotism very seriously. So, when I took Dad to the local hospital for some tests yesterday, we were delighted, but not very surprised, to see this bumper sticker on the SUV of a woman who parked near us:
Why ridicule is Obama's Kryptonite
I remember when I was in high school (1967 to 1971) my father’s great enthusiasm for the books of Eric Hoffer, the longshoreman philosopher and author of The True Believer. Dad’s copy is next to my keyboard now and I see it is dated “April 4, 1970,” so he bought it when he was about …
Ruh-roh! It's bad karma not to link to Little Miss Attila!
I have a routine of blogs I check every day and Little Miss Attila is on it. Why, just last night, when Cuban Diva BFF was depressed after an argument with her mother and called to be cheered up, I immediately enfolded her in the bosom of Little Miss Attila, by which I mean I …
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Multiple cultural personality disorder
The so-called “honor murder” of Aasiya Z. Hassan, 37, in Orchard Park, New York, by her husband, Muzzammil Hassan, 44 — he turned himself in to police, so there’s nothing “alleged” about it — motivated me to track down the Washington Post’s coverage of another honor murder in Potomac, Maryland, in 2001. Marianne I. Oweiss, …
Serving the king
The eternal struggle between pragmatism and idealism was highlighted in a beautiful monologue in an episode of The Closer from its second season in December 2006 written by series creator James Duff. It came at the end of a two-part show about a Muslim boy in Los Angeles murdered by a KGB agent who had …