Politics FAIL

With the Corporate Media engaged in its usual attacks on the Democrats’ agenda, and spouting its sly propagations of Islamophobia, the Kentucky office of OBG’s political division recently managed to secure an exclusive interview which could alter the balance of power in the US Congress.  In the spirit of full disclosure, we here in...
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When the chips are stacked against us, we plod onward with a certain Dykish Knowledge that things will work out. Maybe it’s optimism. Maybe it’s stupidity. More often then not, though, things work out. But they don’t work out by themselves. There are partners, people in our Dyke Tribe and other supporters who cheer us...
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Oliver Hardy was always blaming Stan Laurel for their troubles. But, of course, it took the both of them to bungle their way into the slapstick fiascos they were famous for. Which reminds me of the United States’ immigration policy toward Mexico. To hear almost any member of the administration or Congress...
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In the federal Prop 8 trial (Perry v. Schwarzenegger, which the equality side just won!), “marriage defense” attorney Chuck Cooper argued that: “he central purpose of marriage in virtually all societies and at all times has been to channel potentially procreative sexual relationships into enduring stable unions to increase the likelihood that any offspring will...
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The protester’s signs of “Jesus hates fags” should chill the blood as deeply as any KKK hood or swastika. It infuriates Christians on the other side of the picket line who know they’ve got it wrong, all wrong. If you hate gays in the name of God you’re following the apostle Paul. Jesus Christ never...
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When I was in the Air Force, I had an NCO who once came to work on Monday morning bragging about something he’d done on the long boring drive back from town the previous Friday night. Seems he’d seen an old black man riding a bike up ahead on that deserted two-lane road...
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*ring* *ring* “Thank you for calling God’s office, this is Dixie, how can I help you?” “Hi, Dixie, it’s Jester calling… Wait? Dixie Carter?” “That’s right, sugar.” “What happened to Ma Teresa? I thought she was manning the phones.” “Oh, after her cigarette caught the desk on fire for the third time, the big guy sent her to tend...
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Last week, LGBT ally Ed Brayton posted an apt and amusing piece on The Incredible Power of the Gay. In response to “former homosexual” Michael Glatze, who wrote in WorldNetDaily that “The pressure to succumb to homosexual desires is also immense…I tell people all the time that the seduction of homosexuality is so powerful,” Ed...
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I heard one of my right wing colleagues complaining the other day, lamenting that the gays have co-opted the rainbow. He said the rainbow is supposed to be a symbol of God’s promise. I didn’t disagree with him, but he seemed to have an exclusive idea of what the rainbow means. When I...
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When I heard that President Obama had ordered federally-funded hospitals to respect the advance directives of all their patients, including gays and lesbians, I immediately dropped what I was doing (scheming against Captain Hetero, of course), and headed straight for Mercy Hospital. As he had at hospitals across the country, Captain Hetero had stationed soldiers...
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