Month: November 2012

“I am shocked, I am blown away,” said Joe Sweeney, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  “I thought I had a pretty good pulse on this stuff.” “We were so convinced that the people of this country had more...

As much as I enjoy the feeling of schadenfreude, I think it is unfortunate that the presidential race grew close enough after the first debate to give the Republicans hope. First of all, if they had known how screwed they really...

Would everyone who thought last year that Jay-Z would be the political commentator who best summarized the president’s thoughts the day after his re-election please raise your hands? Now, would those of you who raised your...

Twenty years ago the politically active part of the American LGBT community was vigorously, at times bitterly, debating the question of marriage.  Marriage was a reactionary, bourgeois, repressive institution.  No,...

Whatever you think of former President Bush’s propaganda mouthpiece, Ari Fleischer, he knows his party’s supporters. And he was surprisingly blunt about stating that Republicans will always be against LGBT rights and...