Why we shouldn't attack Iraq
Via Eric Alterman, an excellent paper from the Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs on why Saddam...
Posted Tuesday December 31, 2002 at 1:37 PM | Full Post
The Lives They Lived
The NY Times Magazine has some wonderful essays this week, about people who died in 2002: Tony Kushner on Geraldine...
Posted Sunday December 29, 2002 at 8:08 PM | Full Post
Government isn't for the "little people"
1% of Americans are worth at least $1 million. What percentage of incoming members of Congress are millionaires? 43%....
Posted Sunday December 29, 2002 at 12:49 PM | Full Post
Spotted, heard
Spotted, standing in line at the West 18th Street Post Office: Wallace Shawn Heard, while shopping for used CDs at...
Posted Saturday December 28, 2002 at 10:42 PM | Full Post
Art/culture blogs
I haven't really found other blogs, other than Andy's Chest, that talk about art, theatre, and other cultural goings-on in...
Posted Saturday December 28, 2002 at 2:00 PM | Full Post
Gym culture
This is one of the best things I've ever read about gym culture, from The Economist's year-end issue....
Posted Friday December 27, 2002 at 10:23 PM | Full Post
Sexy engineer
When I saw this photo today illustrating a NY Times article on robots, I thought it was Glenn for a...
Posted Friday December 27, 2002 at 12:19 AM | Full Post
Parallels and Paradoxes
I'm in the middle of a fascinating book, titled Parallels and Paradoxes. It consists of a series of conversations between...
Posted Thursday December 26, 2002 at 12:35 AM | Full Post
A Darwinian explanation for religion?
From the NY Times Science section, a very interesting article on why religion 'evolved' in human societies....
Posted Wednesday December 25, 2002 at 12:17 AM | Full Post
Good post on Venezuela
This is about constitutional democracy, which we pretend is still important, right? From Alas, a Blog...
Posted Tuesday December 24, 2002 at 12:44 PM | Full Post
Good antidote to the "stupid celebrity" stories
A pretty intelligent article on Sean Penn's visit to Iraq. Penn spoke quietly, with evident sincerity. This was the time...
Posted Monday December 23, 2002 at 7:33 PM | Full Post
Could it be... Jews?
Is this code for "blame the Jewish-controlled media?" Trent Lott on his critics -- emphasis mine: When you're from Mississippi,...
Posted Monday December 23, 2002 at 3:19 PM | Full Post
2 Recommended Chelsea Shows
Dana Schutz at LFL Gallery -- no pressure to buy, since they're all sold. Andy Warhol Still Lifes at Paul...
Posted Saturday December 21, 2002 at 6:53 PM | Full Post
Stop him!
The cover of yesterday's Daily Mirror:...
Posted Saturday December 21, 2002 at 1:05 PM | Full Post
Far Away / Antigone
Caryl Churchill's latest play, "Far Away," is at New York Theater Workshop, and it's brilliant. I don't feel like I...
Posted Saturday December 21, 2002 at 12:30 AM | Full Post
Blue Button Project
The Nation has a good essay by Adrienne Rich, titled "Making the Connections," regarding the fact that the pro-corporate, pro-war,...
Posted Friday December 20, 2002 at 11:34 PM | Full Post
The French really know how to advertise
An ad for lube:...
Posted Friday December 20, 2002 at 11:58 AM | Full Post
Frist to be next majority leader?
Good blog post from Nathan Newman on Bill Frist. Remember my post a few days ago about the Eli Lilly...
Posted Friday December 20, 2002 at 11:53 AM | Full Post
Why isn't this getting more coverage?
The LA Times is covering this story, but I haven't seen it anywhere else except from bloggers. I find it...
Posted Friday December 20, 2002 at 11:13 AM | Full Post
Random political data
From 2000: McCain and Bush flirted with neo-Confederate movement. FBI warns corporations to look out for violence from anti-war protesters....
Posted Thursday December 19, 2002 at 7:06 PM | Full Post
Our leader speaks
"There's only one person who hugs the mothers and the widows, the wives and the kids upon the death of...
Posted Thursday December 19, 2002 at 6:38 PM | Full Post
Happy Birthday to James
Go wish James a happy birthday. I won't be posting much today -- off to get my hair cut and...
Posted Thursday December 19, 2002 at 10:33 AM | Full Post
$10,000 Reward
Lisa at Ruminate This writes about TomPaine.com's offer of $10,000 for information about who inserted the provision into the Homeland...
Posted Wednesday December 18, 2002 at 2:03 PM | Full Post
One for the gay trekkies out there
Don't Ask, Don't Tell in Star Trek Land -- scroll down a bit to find the story....
Posted Wednesday December 18, 2002 at 1:04 AM | Full Post
They're all the same
New report out from People For the American Way: Bush, Lott, and Ashcroft: Shared Agendas Threaten Civil Rights Gains...
Posted Wednesday December 18, 2002 at 1:02 AM | Full Post
SONDA passes w/o transgender protection
After 31 years, the NY State Senate allowed a vote on SONDA and it passed. I'm sad to see this...
Posted Tuesday December 17, 2002 at 10:15 PM | Full Post
Mindless Self Indulgence
I don't know anything about them, but I like the album cover:...
Posted Tuesday December 17, 2002 at 3:13 PM | Full Post
Scary picture!
Look at the graphic CNN is using for the story of Bush "moving ahead" on missile defense: They choose not...
Posted Tuesday December 17, 2002 at 3:00 PM | Full Post
Anyone looking to go to law school?
Cool fellowship from Hofstra: Fellowships for the Advocacy for the Equality of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered People Each year,...
Posted Tuesday December 17, 2002 at 12:24 PM | Full Post
Bush thinks the little people aren't paying enough taxes
The Bush administration is arguing that the rich pay too much taxes, and the poor and middle class don't pay...
Posted Monday December 16, 2002 at 3:16 PM | Full Post
James gets published
Go congratulate James on his letter in the Daily News responding to Jonathan Capehart's ridiculous column on SONDA and transgender...
Posted Monday December 16, 2002 at 10:55 AM | Full Post
I love the Public Library
I did one of my only "holiday" things today. James and I went to the New York Public Library's annual...
Posted Sunday December 15, 2002 at 9:38 PM | Full Post
U.S. to foreign artists: we don't want you
New US Visa Rules Force Foreign Artists to Stay Away I didn't know this: Less widely know is that all...
Posted Sunday December 15, 2002 at 6:14 PM | Full Post
I guess Chicago's black people don't know their place?
There is a news story that Sen. Don Nickles of Oklahoma (no. 2 in the Senate) wants a new vote...
Posted Sunday December 15, 2002 at 1:16 PM | Full Post
Gangs of New York
I haven't seen it yet, but I plan to do so soon. Pete Hamill has column today in the Daily...
Posted Sunday December 15, 2002 at 1:10 PM | Full Post
Tracking John Poindexter
Cool: Keeping Track of John Poindexter The head of the government's Total Information Awareness project, which aims to root out...
Posted Saturday December 14, 2002 at 1:17 PM | Full Post
What they really meant to say
Cartoon [via RubberNun]...
Posted Friday December 13, 2002 at 7:58 PM | Full Post
The Wau Wau Sisters
In honor of my friend Jonathan, I present The Wau Wau Sisters' cover of "C'mon Feel the Noise!" MP3 (3MB)...
Posted Friday December 13, 2002 at 7:50 PM | Full Post
Rather pathetic
Hilary Clinton sees that the shifting sentiments of the public regarding l'Affaire Lott require her to modify her initial tepid...
Posted Friday December 13, 2002 at 5:30 PM | Full Post
Good summary of l'affaire Lott so far
Via FAIR...
Posted Wednesday December 11, 2002 at 5:21 PM | Full Post
Nice...
Voters seem not to mind gay-bashing insinuations Shortly before Saturday's runoff Senate race in Louisiana, the raspy voice of a...
Posted Wednesday December 11, 2002 at 4:50 PM | Full Post
Pope: just keep it quiet
I love the MSNBC headline: 'Smoking gun' in church crisis? The file on Burns contained not only lurid revelations about...
Posted Wednesday December 11, 2002 at 3:53 PM | Full Post
When homocons attack
Jonathan Capehart says Tom Duane doesn't support gay rights if he's not willing to abandon transgendered people to get SONDA...
Posted Wednesday December 11, 2002 at 1:13 PM | Full Post
Why bother paying attention?
Clinton was nearly impeached for lying about sex, but Bush appoints Elliott Abrams, who lied to Congress in the Iran-Contra...
Posted Tuesday December 10, 2002 at 8:28 PM | Full Post
More reasons to love Viggo Mortensen
He appeared on Charlie Rose, ostensibly to promote the new Lord of the Rings movie, while wearing a No More...
Posted Tuesday December 10, 2002 at 2:59 PM | Full Post
Art to see
Moving Pictures and Bill Viola at the Guggenheim Group show at Massimo Audiello -- in the 526 West 26th St....
Posted Monday December 9, 2002 at 11:40 PM | Full Post
Madonna really is pretty cool
From the People For The American Way auction: Madonna -- Ray of Light platinum award, signed personally to buyer...
Posted Monday December 9, 2002 at 11:22 PM | Full Post
A happy story from Palestine
Palestinian-Israeli hotline melts hate Sammy Waed never thought he would become friends with an Israeli soldier, especially one who had...
Posted Sunday December 8, 2002 at 1:12 PM | Full Post
Fitness site or porn site?
You decide: Real Men Real Workouts I saw a postcard for this in one of those card racks that show...
Posted Saturday December 7, 2002 at 12:45 AM | Full Post
Trent Lott shouldn't be able to show his face in public
From ABCNEWS.com: Here is what Senator Trent Lott, Republican of Mississippi, said yesterday at Senator Strom Thurmond's birthday party, according...
Posted Saturday December 7, 2002 at 12:31 AM | Full Post
Giuliani as hero, blah blah blah
From Crain's New York Business: The city’s debt per capita has more than doubled since fiscal 1990, to $5,083 per...
Posted Friday December 6, 2002 at 5:36 PM | Full Post
Great blogger on politics
Not that most of you want to read more political blogs, I suspect, but she is really good. On the...
Posted Friday December 6, 2002 at 5:30 PM | Full Post
Openings
I'm going to the White Columns and Schroeder Romero openings tonight. I should be at the latter (in Williamsburg) at...
Posted Friday December 6, 2002 at 1:20 PM | Full Post
So tell me sonny, are you gay?
Danziger on Leave No Child Behind. [via TBOGG]...
Posted Friday December 6, 2002 at 12:09 PM | Full Post
Gay rights in the UK
Gay men, lesbians and bisexual people are to be offered the same rights as married couples, a government minister indicated...
Posted Friday December 6, 2002 at 11:36 AM | Full Post
Australian women
Nicole Kidman isn't the only fabulous woman in Australia....
Posted Friday December 6, 2002 at 10:50 AM | Full Post
Rocked by Rape
The Evolutionary Control Committee ... have topped themselves with this stroke of genius. It's months worth of Dan Rather speaking...
Posted Friday December 6, 2002 at 12:21 AM | Full Post
Some poetry
I get regular emails of poetry from RealPoetik. They don't put the stuff they send out on the web right...
Posted Friday December 6, 2002 at 12:02 AM | Full Post
I think I'll buy some
Bin Laden Used Your Gas Money Sept 12: Sell Your SUV Day Protest Bumper Stickers...
Posted Thursday December 5, 2002 at 12:58 PM | Full Post
Too fat to fight?
US troops are losing battle of the bulge As American troops prepare for war in Iraq a report is about...
Posted Wednesday December 4, 2002 at 4:39 PM | Full Post
Voices of the young
I was just walking by the High School of Fashion Industries on West 24th Street and saw a small demonstration...
Posted Wednesday December 4, 2002 at 4:34 PM | Full Post
Mr. Sullivan
Why do so many gay men, and scary right wing people, link to Andrew Sullivan? A number of the scariest...
Posted Tuesday December 3, 2002 at 11:52 PM | Full Post
A new low
The fashion at my gym has reached a new low. Today I actually saw someone wearing a patterned silk vest,...
Posted Tuesday December 3, 2002 at 5:34 PM | Full Post
What would Betty do?
The latest newsletter from Betty Bowers is out! Some favorites: Knowledge is not something our current President is fond of...
Posted Tuesday December 3, 2002 at 2:34 PM | Full Post
Tracey Baran
One of our works by Tracey is up at her show at The Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago. I...
Posted Tuesday December 3, 2002 at 12:59 PM | Full Post
Hot art opening
This should be great tonight, but I also expect it to be a zoo. Who puts a big group show...
Posted Tuesday December 3, 2002 at 11:50 AM | Full Post
Winterreise
Run, do not walk, to Winterreise at John Jay. I'm too tired from fixing Jim's computer to post more right...
Posted Tuesday December 3, 2002 at 1:15 AM | Full Post
Score one for the Brits
Anti-war protesters block Whitehall...
Posted Monday December 2, 2002 at 6:21 PM | Full Post
Some terrorists are more equal than others
When it comes to politically influential Cubans, the Bush family likes terrorists. I was reading a review of Cuba Confidential:...
Posted Monday December 2, 2002 at 2:38 PM | Full Post
World AIDS Day
I present an article discussing the history of . Living with AIDS in this country is like living through...
Posted Sunday December 1, 2002 at 4:35 PM | Full Post
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