South Dakota To Defeat Anti-Gay Marriage Amendment?
South Dakota voters, like voters in a number of other states this year, will be deciding on whether or not to amend the state constituion to prohibit not only same-sex marriage, but also, to...
View ArticleUS Troops in Somalia?
Reuters is reporting that a free-lance Somali journalist is claiming to have seen US troops "on the ground" working in collaboration with Ethopian troops."I was sure they were Americans in the...
View ArticleWeesie's Cookbook - Chop Suey Edition
Last June my family made a decision to remove my grandmother, Louise's (aka "Aunt Weesie") feeding tube. It wasn't such a hard decision; she'd had a long, productive life, but had spent the last five...
View ArticleWeesie's Cookbook - Orange Cake Edition (Incl. Poll)
I've already told the story of how Weesie's Cookbook came to be, in the Chop Suey edition. But if you're short of time, here's the Cliff Notes edition:"Weesie" was my maternal grandmother, Lousie, who...
View ArticleImmigration History and the US
Nothing is more frustrating to me than the abuse of History. History, like Science, presents certain fundamental points of reference - facts, if you will, although I recognize that the premise of...
View ArticlePaintballers! Uncle Sam Wants You!
Military recruiting during wartime is hard werk, y'know. Almost as hard a clearin' brush offa ranch that don't have no cows.We've been hearing for some time that the military has had a rough time...
View ArticleCO-Sen: Udall, Schaffer Tied In Poll
Wayne "Marriage is between one man and one woman" Allard's decision to retire has left Dems with a chance to turn purple Colorado somewhat bluer, with popular Representative Mark Udall (CO-2) preparing...
View ArticleHappy National Coming Out Day
Today is the 11th National Coming Out Day I've celebrated as an "out" gay man, and while that's been an important part of my personal growth, it places a distant second from my other "coming out"...
View ArticleTransgender Day of Remembrance
Today is the 9th Annual Transgender Day of Remembrance - a day to take a bit of time to acknowledge some of the transgender individuals who have been murdered or died in some fashion, simply because of...
View ArticlePolling for Pies (or, Pies for Polls)
I don't know about you, but I'm in a rut.Time was, some forty or fifty thousand UIDs ago, that one could log onto dKos and find several good pie recipes posted on a daily basis. "Old-timers honored the...
View ArticleBreaking! Everyone Picks Up Big Endorsement In Iowa! Now With Poll!
Yes, it's true! This past weekend was a bonanza for Presidential candidates, as they all picked up BIG ENDORSEMENTS IN IOWA!As the race in Iowa comes down to the wire, with the top tier candidates...
View ArticlePie. Republican Pie for Florida Voter Disenfranchisement
If it seems too good to be true, it may still be true. Today, Hillary Clinton garnered more votes than any other candidate in the Florida primary; more votes than all the candidates combined in the...
View ArticleZogby Predicts: No Obama, No Clinton.
Pollster John Zogby was a guest yesterday on the Wisconsin Public Radio Ideas Network show "Conversations With Kathleen Dunn", primarily to talk about the poll released by his company recently, showing...
View ArticleHow to Choose Your Next Car, Regardless of Bailouts
I've only ever owned a Ford. However, as of yesterday, I've learned my lesson - I won't ever buy another Ford "just because it's a Ford".As a 17-year old who'd worked and saved for a year to buy his...
View ArticleAction Diary: Ripping My Family Apart, or: Support The Uniting American...
In a little over a year, I may have to quit my job, end my 20 year career in US higher education, say "goodbye" to my family, and abandon my country. All because I fell in love with a citizen of the...
View ArticleTeabagging With Cooks; or, Cooking With Teabags
Below the orange line: Cooking with tea/tea bags!Late this afternoon, I received my personalized invitation to the Madison, WI "Tax Day Tea Party" - from the College Republicans. The party runs from...
View ArticleLynch Will Sign NH Marriage Bill If...
The New Hampshire Legislature will pass new language to offer additional protections to religious communities.It's been posted to MyDD's front page that a tweet from AP's Phil Elliot says that Lynch is...
View ArticleWI-Gov: Barrett (D) Fundraising: Spectacular
The Wisconsin State Journal is reporting that Milwaukee mayor Tom Barrett hauled in more than $750,000 during the first seven weeks of his candidacy, and has more than $1.5 million in cash-on-hand....
View ArticleCap Times (WI) Editorial: First Amendment Remedies
It's no surprise that Scott Walker, Scott Fitzgerald (WI Senate Majority Leader) and their supporters responded to the WI Senate Dem walkout on Thursday, Feb 17th with accusations that the Dems were...
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Last Known Gay Holocaust Survivor Dies
Edited to correct a typo Rudolf and Edi were partners for nearly 60 years, not 30 as originally noted.Multiple European news sources are reporting that Rudolf Brázda, believed to be the last gay...
View ArticleI Subscribed To My Lifeline
My sig line: I'm one of those lucky homos in a bi-national relationship - at the age of 49, all I had to do was give up my career, leave behind my dying father, my aging, diabetic mother, my family...
View ArticleI Wasn't Going To, But I Did. I Voted.
As a gay US citizen in exile for the past two years, I've had plenty of reason to have a complex love/hate relationship with my country, and I swore to myself that I'd not vote this year - the first...
View ArticleI Am The Poison Pill
You all saw this front page diary on Wednesday by Joan McCarter, where Marco Rubio (R-Small-but-immigration-privileged identity group) announced that Patrick Leahy's (D-Vt.) plan to offer an amendment...
View ArticleWisconsin Marriage Equality - A Historical Flashback
Wow. On election day morning of 2006, I voted, then went to my campus office and quickly sent this post to the various campus and community LGBT listservs, before getting in my car and heading to...
View ArticleThe Cynicism of John Roberts
With his vote today in the Obergafell decision, Chief Justice John Roberts revealed the deep political cynicism of his vote yesterday in King v. Burwell, and sealed his fate in the history books....
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The Hillo-Sanders Pie War of '15-'16: From Transparent Pie to Humble Pie...
Time For PieIt’s that time again in the Presidential primary season when the pie flies, causing me to reminisce about the good old days — back when pie fights actually resulted in recipes – a tangible...
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Carson Jones & Caleb Moore: A tale of two political sons.
Carson: thousands of documented hours of volunteer work (from the age of 13 on).Caleb: thousands of dollars in bail bond money (from 9 arrests).Carson: ten years experience working with animals in...
View ArticleA Little Motivation
Haven’t written a diary in a very long time, but listening to the live report on Nice Polite Republicans on the commute home, I felt motivated to put this up, because Sweet Honey In The Rock sings us...
View ArticleFinal Exams in the Age of Social Distancing
The above photo was taken on my campus, by a campus security officer. It’s a real sign, the faculty member is real and these are the classes the instructor is teaching this term. Today (Tuesday 17th...
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Hoppin' John, y'all. What's Your New Year's Good Fortune Tradition?
Many cultures have a New Year’s tradition for bringing good fortune for the coming year, and at a Zoom work meeting yesterday, our VP asked what everyone’s cultural New Year’s tradition. I said...
View ArticleDonald Trump, America's African President - Trevor Noah
Trevor Noah of the Daily Show just posted a 7-minute clip on Donald Trump — America’s African President. According to Noah: Donald Trump may not seem like commander-in-chief material to Americans, but...
View ArticleThis Time, Being Inaugurated On The Capitol Steps Is Important
The single most important elected positon in the world has spent the last four years smothered in darkness. There are a lot of incredibly important things he will do in the next days, months, years,...
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Bernie Mittens Become A Fundraiser. Get Your Bernie Mittens Now!
Jen Ellis, the Vermont school teacher who used recycled wool sweaters to make Bernie’s now-famous mittens has been inundated with requests — more than 18,000, by her estimate — to purchase a pair. The...
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