UPDATED: Michelle Bachmann wins Iowa straw poll, husband still gay

I originally posted the following on August 14, 2011. It was lost on Sept. 17 due to a web host snafu. I am restoring it from Google’s cached copy along with all the original comments (I will be answering objections raised in the comments in a future post): The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Get …

Geraldine Ferraro, thank you, and a reminder of the vicious sexism you faced

Geraldine Ferraro died today of blood cancer. As the first female vice presidential candidate in 1984, she inspired a generation of women, including me. The moment I knew Sarah Palin has the majesty of soul to be a great leader came during her speech after John McCain announced he had selected her as his running …

Mary Matalin and Ken Mehlman speaking at GOProud’s fundraiser

My favorite points from Republican strategist Ken Mehlman, who recently came out as gay: Mary Matalin has made conservativism cool again. Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan restored the Republican party to being a party of ideas, rather than something you were born as. There’s a short glimpse of me at the beginning of the video …

Sassy Gay Friend rescues Cleta Mitchell

Did I forget to finish the Cleta Mitchell story I started after dear Christopher Barron characterized her in an unflattering way in the interview he and Jimmy LaSalvia gave to Metro Weekly that was published on Feb. 9 during CPAC? For some reason, several months of being on the receiving end of Ms. Mitchell’s scorched …

Goodness and mercy

My late life partner and I used to love to watch the British comedies broadcast by the Baltimore and Washington, D.C., PBS stations — Are You Being Served?, Keeping Up Appearances, As Time Goes By, Chef, Last of the Summer Wine, Waiting for God, Blackadder, The Thin Blue Line and The Vicar of Dibley were …

Jon Stewart pwns John McCain on DADT

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Gaypocalypse Now www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor The Daily Show on Facebook Jon Stewart provides current and past clips of Sen. McCain to show that McCain will say anything to prevent the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell” in the vain …

Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor on the brain and pure bliss consciousness

This video is neuroanatomist Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor‘s talk at the TED conference on Feb. 27, 2008, on her experience of a hemorrhagic stroke in 1996. You may relate better to some posts I’m planning if you have listened to this speech first. I plan to refer to it when I write about my own …