PINKO DAILY BRIEFS: 2009! Fuck! Cock! That’s insane. How was your New Years? Growing up I was obsessed with the January 1 Washington Post, which did a normally-tone-deaf but addictive-anyway “What’s In/What’s Out” list for the coming year. Here is the 2009 edition. I’m not so sure about “Why We Suck,” but I’m excited for [...]
PINKO DAILY BRIEFS. When I used to visit my ex at Swarthmore College there were dueling queer factions on campus, both vying to welcome prospective gays to the school. The college had an annual goth-meets-electronica gala party slash academic symposium, and people actually wore “Anywhere else it would have been an ‘A.’” tshirts. Without irony. [...]
Sean Penn, the Christiane Amanpour of celebrity journalists (and my new hero, thanks to his performance in “Milk“), has written a hard-hitting, insightful and surprisingly capable interview with Hugo Chavez and Raul “party-in-my-pants” Castro. It’s Castro’s first interview with a foreign actor journalist ever. Really. Revelations include: Raul Castro is old! There are rich Cubans [...]
PINKO DAILY BRIEFS: The conversation now has clearly shifted to an Obama win, which makes me very uncomfortable this soon but the numbers DO look good and John McCain just looks so totally lost. One thing to watch for is an effort by the right starting now to paint a potential Obama win as “stolen,” the [...]
The effort to expand SCHIP, the State Children’s Health Insurance Program that was essentially cancelled last Fall, cost $35 billion a year. That was too expensive.
A real plan to invest in green economic development would cost $3-4 billion a year to start. Colleagues of mine have been laughed at for proposing so much. It’s too [...]
Well I haven’t found any gay Republicans yet; then again I haven’t really looked. Also I went to the bathroom before I left the hotel which lowers the odds dramatically. The main story from yesterday (besides Juno Palin) were the protests, and the extreme (and unnecessary) force of the Minneapolis-St. Paul police.
In 2000 I was [...]
In 2007, the arrival of the political blogger as a force in American politics was heralded by a Presidential Pilgrimage: at least year’s gathering of lefty political bloggers (then “Yearly Kos,” now “Netroots Nation,”) all nine of the Democratic Presidential Candidates came to speak, holding breakout sessions and a spectacular debate that was far and away [...]
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