What do you call the story of the first Thanksgiving, of Pilgrims and Native Americans sitting down at the dinner table together and feasting on turkey, corn, squash and other goodies?

A lie.

Almost everything that is written about Thanksgiving is a lie. Forget the annual TV specials… Read full post »

The Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) is heading up one of the biggest porn operations in history and it’s happening at 70 airports throughout the nation.

This holiday season, don’t be shy, step right into the brand new body scanners that use low-dose radiation (to… Read full post »

If I were a modern-day Dante I’d reserve a special section of the worst part of hell for people like newly elected Maryland Republican Representative Andy Harris. 

The conservative anesthesiologist (a physician who is trained in anesthesia and peri-operative medicine) ran on… Read full post »

It’s unbelievable to me that a city like San Francisco has not had a progressive mayor in the almost 20 years that I’ve lived here.   

That may change, as the Board of Supervisors will soon be selecting an interim mayor (until November 2011, the next mayoral e… Read full post »

It really would be laughable, if it weren’t so deadly.

James Manning, a two-bit, New York-based pentecostal minister with a bully pulpit, has released a youtube video in which he urges his followers to fight back against the “homosexual agenda” by using antigay words s… Read full post »

It really is amazing that a character like Kurt Hummel exists on television, especially on the Fox network, which has a right-wing news program that openly supports the tea baggers, America’s new hood-less KKKers.

Tea baggers who hate kids like Kurt Hummel.

For those of you… Read full post »

It’s funny how those that have the most are often the first to deny the rest of us the smallest bit of crumbs from their plates.

Consider that despicable Mitch McConnell, Republican Senate minority leader from Kentucky. 

McConnell recently told the ultra-conservative H… Read full post »

Back  in 1980 when the Phillies won the World Series for the first time, good old American straight boys seized the opportunity to engage in their favorite spectator sport: fagbashing in the gay neighborhood where I lived. 

I had the good sense to stay inside that night.

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Anyone who takes a good hard look at America’s “war on drugs” quickly realizes how incredibly stupid and misguided it really is. 

Drug laws in this country are not based on research or reason. They never have been. 

They’re the result of racism (… Read full post »

There’s nothing in America that threatens democracy like a good old American election.

Not that we’ve ever had true democracy. It’s hard to claim “with liberty and justice for all” when blacks and women can’t vote, or when enterprising candidates buy or out… Read full post »

They just don’t stop.

“People of faith,” as it seems fashionable to call them now, just won’t let up on that juvenile “my religion is better than your religion” crap. Isn’t it enough that their holy wars, inquisitions, crusades, pogroms, etc. ha… Read full post »

Helpless.

As I listen to the vet give me the results of my cat’s blood work up, I feel so incredibly helpless. Her kidneys are damaged. The result of old age. She’s almost 16. You wouldn’t know that to look at her, she’s so perky. But she hasn’t been… Read full post »

Ft. Worth, Texas Councilman Joel Burns did something extraordinary on October 12.

An out gay member of City Council, he gave a stirring 12-minute speech about being bullied in school because of his perceived sexual orientation, an orientation he was too scared to acknowledge. He urged… Read full post »

“Question everything.” 

I have that posted above my desk in my room. 

It’s a principle I live by. Always has been. At least since I was 16 and announced at Thanksgiving dinner that I didn’t believe in god anymore. My Roman Catholic family didn&rs… Read full post »