The phrase “conservative lesbian” isn’t exactly an oxymoron, but it does describe a very rare bird. Even at CPAC, when a libertarian radio host whose name I can’t remember wanted to prove to me that I was really a libertarian instead of a conservative and walked me over to the libertarian booth personally so I …
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The blow job equivalency
Jenny Lawson, aka The Bloggess, is one of my favorite writers and I got sucked into the comment vortex on her most recent post for a totally innocent reason — yesterday, I vowed, come hell or high water, I would find out why CommentLuv was showing links to the blogs of other commenters at her …
Bookworm has advice on how to talk to liberals
Bookworm’s advice on how to talk to liberals — if you want to be persuasive to them — is at her blog and American Thinker. She took a shellacking in the comments at American Thinker from conservatives who do not suffer fools gladly. I am sorry to see that. She replied by politely pointing out …
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No equality for me despite an ancestor that served at Valley Forge with Washington
It is Memorial Day and I do wish to honor all the members of our armed services, living and dead. But I am going to have to start insisting on having me all of that equality they talked about today that every other citizen has, and, frankly, practically every illegal alien, too. I attend Memorial …
My civil dialogue with Gay Patriot on same-sex marriage and marriage equality for lesbians and gays
Gay Patriot has a post from May 18 about Carrie Prejean, same-sex marriage and civil dialogue — my comment in reply is so long that I am posting it here first: The rights that come with legally-recognized marriage are so many and various that it will never be possible to stipulate all of them in …
Is this how werewolves feel?
I got pulled into the gravitational field of the blogosphere right after Sarah Palin’s luminous speech at the Republican National Convention in 2008. I am a lesbian and life-long Democrat, but Barack Obama’s last chance to get my support lay in his choice of vice president. When he didn’t choose Hillary Clinton, I considered myself …