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So... it turns out that the federal judge overseeing the Prop 8 trial in San Francisco is... gay. The haters at NOM aren't happy because as everyone knows only straight people can be impartial when it comes to issues like gay marriage because straight ...

From DAN SAVAGE, The Stranger,  9 Feb 2010

Related Topics: Clarence Thomas

SL Letter of the Day: The Toilet Brush Off

My boyfriend and I have agreed to abide by whatever decision you make. Resolve this dispute for us. We've been together for nine months. We are gay. Neither of us is hung up on monogamy so that's not the issue. We live in a college town. We ...

From DAN SAVAGE, The Stranger,  8 Feb 2010

Parents, Not Controversies

In the diversity-embracing, socially progressive cocoon of Oak Park, RoiAnn Phillips and Kelly Fondow are raising Eva, a precocious 5-year-old. Eva's school has other kids with gay parents. Her kindergarten classmates have never shied from asking ...

From DAN SAVAGE, The Stranger,  8 Feb 2010

Related Topics: Margaret Brown

Youth Pastor Watch, Headline of the Day, O They Will Know We Are Christians...

A former Greenwood Salvation Army youth pastor has been charged with trying to hire a hit man to kill three teenage girls with whom he was accused of having sex. Johnson County prosecutors who charged 30-old Jonathan James Hartman with conspiracy to ...

From DAN SAVAGE, The Stranger,  8 Feb 2010

Rush Limbaugh Is a Big, Fat Exception

"[Limbaugh] was using satire... I didn’t hear Rush Limbaugh calling a group of people whom he did not agree with ‘f-ing retards’ and we did know that Rahm Emanuel has been reported, did say that. there is a big difference there." When can you use ...

From DAN SAVAGE, The Stranger,  8 Feb 2010

Related Topics: Rush Limbaugh,  Rahm Emanuel,  Sarah Palin,  White House

Krugman: The Polish Joke...

We’ve always known that America’s reign as the world’s greatest nation would eventually end. But most of us imagined that our downfall, when it came, would be something grand and tragic. What we’re getting instead is less a tragedy than a deadly ...

From DAN SAVAGE, The Stranger,  8 Feb 2010

Every Child Deserves a Mother and a Father

So how come we have to read about it in the British media? Sheesh. There's something about it in the Olympian http://www.thenewstribune.com/partners/t… but in their version he's merely "holding his 4-year-old daughter's head under the water in the ...

From DAN SAVAGE, The Stranger,  7 Feb 2010

Palin's Cheat Sheet

Sarah Palin gave a speech to the tea party convention last night... ...and she had some crib notes on her hand: "Energy," "Budget Cuts," "Tax," "Lift American Spirits." Those are, it turned out, Palin's priorities should she decide to run for president— ...

From DAN SAVAGE, The Stranger,  7 Feb 2010

Related Topics: Sarah Palin,  Andrew Sullivan

Was This On Slog Yesterday?

The red bars are the accelerating rate of job loss during President Bush's last year in office; the blue bars are the decelerating rate of job loss during President Obama's first year of office. ...

From DAN SAVAGE, The Stranger,  6 Feb 2010

Related Topics: George W. Bush,  Barack Obama

Tea Party Crowd Believes That Only Good Spellers People Should Vote

The opening night speaker at the Tea Party convention suggested a return to a "literacy test" to protect America from presidents like Obama—a segregation-era method employed by southern US states to keep blacks from voting. In his speech Thursday to ...

From DAN SAVAGE, The Stranger,  6 Feb 2010

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Republican Party,  Tom Tancredo

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