Friday, October 10, 2008
Gay high school for Windy City
Chicago could get its own gay-friendly high school, similar to the Harvey Milk school in New York.
Republicans are putting Obama in physical danger
Andrew Sullivan gets to the heart of MuckCain and Palin's outrageous character attacks on Obama in recent days: that fomenting the prejudices, ignorance and rage of elements of the Republican base could put Obama in actual physical danger.
Thursday, October 09, 2008
MuckCain and Palin's Faithful League of Uninformed Voters
Probably the saddest and most terrifying thing you'll see all year.
More of it here. How can these people be so fucking stupid? These idiots should be identified and barred from voting for life.
UK gets mo-seum
Britain is to get its first museum of homosexual history. From today's London Independent...
Will it be Roth this year?
Sending out all my best vibes for Philip Roth to win this year's Nobel Prize for Literature, to be announced later today - despite the comments from the Nobel committee member Horace Engdahl last week.
Read an extensive interview with Roth in The Observer from a few weeks back.
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
No wire hangers. Or questions about cups of urine.
Yikes. My friend David just put me onto this car crash interview with Faye Dunaway in yesterday's Guardian. Every journalist's worst 'mare.
Coming out to play
The school Debs can be a hit-and-miss affair, but it still remains a rites-of-passage for most Irish students, marking as it does (or should, at any rate) the end of those awkward, hormonal formative years, and the dawn of those even more awkward and hormonal adult ones.
But if you’re a gay teenager, the Debs can be a meaningless, even painful experience because, more often than not, you cannot openly and comfortably attend with a same sex partner.
Continue here.
Obama and the wreck-onomy
The town hall debate is mid-way through: every question has been on the American wreckonomy so far, which has all been to Obama's advantage. Keep 'em coming baby!
Meanwhile, McCain hits a new low while addressing Obama - or, should I say, "that one". Astonishing.
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
Obama hits back
The Obama campaign's fightback against MuckCain's smears - a video detailing his involvement with Charles Keating and the murky savings and loans scandal. The low road to high office, eh?
Meanwhile, today's Gallup polls have Obama leading by 51% to 42% for McCain, while Americans' general satisfaction rate slumps to an all-time low of just 9%. As long as Obama puts in an even competent performance in tonight's second debate, then this election could be decided by the end of this week
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