My father told me “Chesty” Puller said this, and it always makes me smile when I’m in a similar situation: Men! The enemy have us surrounded! The poor, dumb bastards! They can’t get away from us now! There are other versions of the quote here, but I like this one best. Wikipedia has his biography …
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'They say that lesbians hate men'
Son of a bitch, another celebrity I have to give up as a liberal fool! During the 2008 election campaign it was like a stampede of celebrities to the brink of our last nerve and beyond as Cuban Diva BFF and I commiserated by phone over our losses. So, today I’ve had it with Roseanne …
Affirmation for 3/5/09
All my adult life I have had to work at being optimistic in the face of an assortment of crushing and deadly adversities and I have learned a lot about how to do it. So today I am going to start a category of posts on affirmations because I have been using them for over …
How to turn around blighted neighborhoods for free, the conservative way
As a minority, lesbians and gays have few, if any, friends and allies willing to expend political capital on our behalf — although other minorities accept all the golden eggs we produce for them with endless handfuls of gimme and mouths full of “much obliged.” We also have less family support than any other minority …
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Adoption for lesbians and gays doesn't mean what social conservatives think it means
I have the impression, from a very small sample of evangelical families, including one I have known many years, that their religious leaders urge them to adopt children as a way of adding more converts to their flock. I expect, if this is true, that they press this cause in more idealistic terms. But, from …
Michael Steele's Rush Limbaugh gaffe and how to go forward to victory
Little Miss Attila kindly asked me what I thought of this post at her blog, and here is my answer: My concern with Steele’s put-down of Limbaugh is that it makes me question his personality, his judgment and his qualifications for the job of chairman of the Republican National Committee, which Rush correctly pointed out …
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Gay marriage as Penelope's web vs. Nixon to China
Here’s the thing about getting gay marriage legalized — it makes a LOT more sense for me to engage conservatives on the issue than liberal Democrats because I only have to educate conservatives about the “gay” part of the issue and joyfully, that work not only stays done, but actually begins to multiply itself virally …
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Gay marriage
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, …
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 …