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Posted: 6:00 am Friday, December 6th, 2013
Bashir v. Palin: No Winner
By Rhonda Swan
It doesn't seem fair that MSNBC host Martin Bashir had to resign from the network for bashing Sarah Palin while the entertainer gets to keep her job at Fox News despite the many ignorant things that have fallen from her lips and landed in our ears.
But Bashir crossed a line when he said the former Alaska governor should have to eat poop.
Liberal talk show hosts can't criticize their colleagues at Fox News for the hateful rhetoric they spew if they are going to engage in the same behavior.
Each weekday on MSNBC's PoliticsNation, the Rev. Al Sharpton highlights some example of conservative hypocrisy, then ends the segment with "We got you!" That tit for tat mentality is why our government is so dysfunctional and why our media is so annoying. It does nothing to move us forward and everything to keep us divided.
Bashir is passionate and doesn't mince words. He clearly found Palin's comments on slavery and the economy offensive.
"Our free stuff today is being paid for by taking money from our children and borrowing from China, Palin said. "When that note comes due – and this isn't racist — try it, try it anyway — but it'll be like slavery when that note is due. We are going to be beholden to the foreign master."
Some have called her comments racist. They aren't. They're ill informed and designed to incite fear and anger, which keeps her relevant to those whose agenda is division. Palin makes a living creating chaos and confusion.
But her comments are no more ill informed than those that famed neurosurgeon Ben Carson made about the Affordable Care Act.
"Obamacare is the worst thing to happen to this nation since slavery," he said. "It is slavery in a way because it makes all of us subservient."
Bashir no doubt took particular offense to Palin's remarks because she is someone liberals love to hate.
He read from the diary of slaveholder Thomas Thistlewood, who allegedly forced slaves to eat human feces, and said Palin deserved like punishment. "When Mrs. Palin invoked slavery, she doesn't just prove her rank ignorance," he said. "She confirms that if anyone truly qualified for a dose of discipline from Thomas Thistlewood, then she would be the outstanding candidate."
He later apologized and this week resigned.
Palin will undoubtedly make more comments that provoke the righteous indignation of liberals. As will Carson, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity and the many conservative lawmakers who MSNBC reports on each day.
The appropriate response is to simply speak truth to ignorance.
Angry words from the left are no more noble than asinine words from the right.


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We had a wonderful time on The Sun. This was our third cruise having gone previously on a seven night cruise on the Norwegian Pearl and an eight night cruise on Navigator of the Sea (Royal Caribbean) before. This cruise was longer and was on a smaller ship than our previous cruises. We found that we loved the differences in both cases.
Regarding the length, 11 nights really allowed us time to fully relax and enjoy the cruise fully. We absolutely loved the itinerary. It was great to start our cruise with two full days at sea. These first two days gave us a chance get to know the ship and it's crew. We had three ports of call followed by another sea day. This was followed by two more ports and the cruise ended with two more days at sea. We loved this schedule, it gave us a great mix of active and relaxation days, plus the different ports were different enough in flavor and culture that each one offered something different for us to explore. Prior to the cruise my wife was a bit concerned that 11 nights might be just a bit too long, now she thinks that the longer cruises fit us better than the shorter ones.
Regarding the smaller size of The Sun. The ship is small enough that we felt like we received individualized attention from the ship's staff. The ship was not crowded and still provided most of the amenities we enjoy on the larger ships. In fact the only item I missed on The Sun was that it didn't have a cigar bar which both of the larger ships we have cruised on before offered. We did notice two bottle neck areas on the ships that traffic tended to back up. The first was following the evening shows the aft hallway on deck six from the Stardust Theatre leading forward toward Dazzles tended to back up, especially if people were stopping to look at the photos posted along the wall. We found a quick solution for this was to bypass the issue by using the outside walkway on deck six. This walk was always uncrowded and provided a great opportunity to enjoy the sea. The second bottle neck was in the buffet especially the area toward the aft area. This meant that during prime meal times there tended to be a backup to access the buffet. This wasn't a real issue for us, we tend to eat at the sit down restaurants more than the buffet. We never had to wait in a line of more than one or two people at either of the main dining rooms or any of the other dining venues we chose.
The Sun is also an older ship but she has been refitted a couple of times. The ship was always spotlessly clean and well maintained. We did notice a few areas where she was showing a bit of age on her, nothing bad, we could just tell she wasn't brand new.
We had cabin 8270 which is a starboard side balcony cabin near the aft of the ship. Our cabin was a good size. The bathroom was small (as they always are on cruise ships, but not bad, I could even take a reasonable shower) The room had a king bed and a full size couch that would pull out to provide a second bed. The closet was reasonable and had plenty of hangers and several baskets along one wall which provided plenty of storage. There was also plenty of drawer space our standard small writing desk with chair. The cabin also had a coffee pot (which was nice), a small flat screen television and two fluffy bathrobes. The balcony was wonderful!!!!!!!! It was about four feet deep and ten feet wide and was supplied with two deck chairs and a small table. This cabin is positioned directly above the Stardust Theatre, we occasionally would hear a little bit of sound during show times, but even that was very faint. We found that the location of the cabin provided easy access to many of the key places we visited regularly. We could easily walk down one or two sets of stairs to quickly get to either the theatre or the Seven Seas dining room and the elevator also provided quick access to the places to eat on deck eleven and twelve. Our cabin steward Arvin was a real jewel. He kept our room spotlessly clean (even slipping in to freshen things up if we stepped out for just a few minutes). He greeted us by name every time he saw us and was always incredibly pleasant to speak with.
We found the food on board to be very good. As I have said we tend to dine at one of the full service restaurants while cruising. The Seven Seas dining room was nicely decorated and required that guests wear at least resort casual (long pants and polo shirt) while dining there. Four Season was also well decorated but guests were allowed to wear shorts while dining there. The menu in both of the main dining rooms had two parts every day. The first set of selections were the same every day and provided fare such as steaks, fish and pasta. The second set of selections changed daily throughout the cruise and provided options such as lobster, lamb, duck and that sort of fare. We found that the beef options were always consistently good at every meal so we tended to order that choice most frequently. We enjoyed the food very much (too much in fact since we both experienced the standard cruise weight gain effect) One thing that really impressed me during our cruise was that I mentioned to one of our servers who happened to be Pilipino that I really enjoy Chicken Adobo (a national dish from The Philippines). They said that it wasn't on the menu but suggested that I might be able to get some if I were to request it. I took them up on their suggestion and asked the Food and Beverage Director if it would be possible for me to special order Chicken Adobo. Sure enough a couple of days later The Food and Beverage Director saw me around the ship and asked where we wished to dine that night and what time I wished to have the Chicken Adobo served. That night we were treated to a truly memorable meal. The staff served us the best Chicken Adobo and another Philippine pork dish I didn't recognize I have ever had. The food was wonderful, but what made it so special was knowing that the staff were willing to go out of their way to prepare something that wasn't even on the menu just for us. The wait staff in the main dining rooms were always very attentive to meet our needs.
We don't usually do many of the specialty restaurants when we cruise, but due to the length of this cruise we did take the opportunity to visit several of them. East Meets West is an absolutely wonderful steakhouse. The beef fillet was just about the best I have ever had. La Bistro was probably our favorite of the specialty places, the atmosphere was very nice and the food was perfect. Moderno was also good if you are a carnivore (I will say the salad and soup bar that comes with the meat is also pretty top notch).
One thing we found especially nice about the Sun was the variety of fun little places to grab a bite if you didn't want to hit one of the main eating establishments. Here are a few of the great extra options: The Great Outdoor (the outdoor aft buffet) offered a nice late night buffet including some pretty awesome pizza. Los Rombles is a Spanish themed bar on deck 12 that offers a nice selection of free Topas food from 5 to 10pm every night (the olives, the sausage and the shrimp were my favorites). The Sports Bar offers no charge all night bar type food (burgers, wings, chips and dip). Moderno also offers a free pasta and salad bar everyday at lunch. We also really enjoyed ordering an early morning coffee service from room service that we could sip while enjoying our balcony.
Before the cruise I was wondering if the entertainment would be varied enough to keep me interested over eleven nights. Overall we found the entertainment to be good. The singers and dancers troop did three production shows scattered over the eleven nights. Two of the production shows were just average, but we really enjoyed the "We Will Rock You" show which featured rock and roll from the 70's and 80's.
The guest entertainers were all pretty good as well. The Hypnotist was very entertaining and very funny (he also offered free stop smoking and weight loss seminars in the afternoons). The comedian was just about like every other cruise ship comedian I have seen, funny but not really anything special. The guest tenor did two shows one he sang classical and Broadway type songs, the other he did love songs from the 50's and 60's. We really enjoyed the acrobats; I kept saying to myself how do they do that. The banjo player did a good job with his material, but we don't really typically listen to banjo music so we found a full hour of it to be a bit much. The cruise director Ian also did a matinee magic show which was very good. We also enjoyed the matinee crew talent show on the last day of the cruise.
We also really enjoyed several of the lounge acts that were scattered around the ship. We enjoyed several of them throughout the cruise. We were particularly fond of Jim Long who is a piano player/singer that appeared in The Windjammer most nights. He did several special sets including a tribute to Elton John, tribute to The Beatles, a fun sing along.
The casino on board is fairly large for the size of the ship. Prior to the cruise I had purchased two promotional packages one through Norwegian and one through a casino promotions company (google discount casino Norwegian cruise) both of these promotions essentially gave me two for one buy in for casino play. I enjoyed the casino especially on sea days and actually ended the cruise going home with a little bit more money than I started with (well in my casino money at least).
I also made use of the steam room and sauna which are located up in the spa but don't require a spa purchase for you to use them.
We also had a great time on this cruise meeting fellow Cruise Critic members. Our Meet and Greet on our first full sea day was very well attended (something like 75 people I would guess). The cabin crawl was tons of fun including the special treats set up for us in the owners suite. After this introduction it was great to see the different members around the ship during meals or at the shows. We met so many wonderful people this cruise.
As for the Ports of call:
Due to the schedule this port is only a half day port starting off really early in the morning. However, this really does work out well because even in late November Cartagena got hot and humid by noon time. We walked out of the port (through the second set of gates) out to the main street where we negotiated with a taxi to take us to the El Centro for $8 (make sure to get your walking tour map at the port tourist office) then we spent the morning walking around the old city. We also made a visit to the gold museum (free of charge). After we had walked around the old city, taken all the photos we wanted and did a little shopping we caught a taxi back to the ship (again $8 with a little negotiation). Before we boarded the ship we spent a little time walking through the small zoo that they have at the port. Overall a very interesting day that cost us almost nothing.
The ship docks here just after lunch and stays till mid evening. Once leaving the ship directly across the street from the cruise port is the main bus station (the buses stop in the parking lot behind the building to the left as you have the port to your back). We took bus 10A ($2.30 per person each way) from the downtown to the northeast end of the island to Malmok Beach where we spent the day snorkeling (must have your own gear). There is a nice reef formation less than 50 feet from the shore that follows the coastline for a considerable length. The water was calm and warm. I saw a considerable variety of fish and other life including: squid, puffer fish, triggers, tangs, an ell, pipe organ coral, fan coral and several fish I don't know the breed. We caught the bus back to town and spent a little bit of time walking around the shops near the port terminal. Another fun day that cost almost nothing
We spent the morning walking around the downtown area enjoying the pastel colored buildings and the fun shops. Early afternoon we caught a city bus($3) that took us on a full loop of the eastern end of the island. We didn't get off the bus we simply rode it for its full loop which allowed us to see the interior of the island as well as the smaller towns that are far away from the tourists. We really enjoyed the ride.
When we got back to the ship at the appointed 4:30pm all aboard time we found that due to an issue they were working on we would be staying till 8:00pm. This extra time allowed us to head back into town and enjoy the city as night fell. We also took the opportunity to find a grocery store were we purchased the same liquor the tourist shops were selling but at less than half the tourist price.
St. Martin
We had been to this island before and had already done the shopping thing so this time we rented a car and spent the day driving around the island. I paid $54 for a small car for the day. We had been told that Frier's Beach (near Marigot) was nice so we stopped there and found a wonderful little bay ringed by white sand and palm trees and best of all there were only a few people there. We also really enjoyed Oyster Pond and the area around. At the end of the day we walked along the boardwalk where we found our vender from last trip who offers cold soda right on the beach for $1 a bottle.
St. Thomas
We spent Thanksgiving Day in the US Virgin Islands. I had pre-booked a jeep for the day at a car rental right in the terminal. Ended up paying $94 all fees and gas included for the day. Once the ship docked we headed straight for the car rental and off we went. I must admit it was a bit unnerving to be driving on the left hand side of the road, especially in a Jeep that was set up for right hand driving. Once we left town we headed straight for Red Hook to catch the ferry over to St. Johns ($50 round trip for the jeep and all passengers). We then spent the day driving around the Virgin Islands National Park. The park was so lush and green, we really enjoyed exploring the rain forest. I also had a short time snorkeling at Water Lemon Cay on the north side of the island. Snorkeling at Water Lemon Cay was excellent, probably the best coral formations I have ever seen anywhere plus several really nice fish to enjoy including what I think was a Tarpon that was just about as big as me. After catching the ferry back to St. Thomas we stopped at a small grocery store that had a lunch counter where we purchased a very nice selection of island fare for a late lunch.
Once back at the ship since St. Thomas was our last port of call on this cruise the crew of the Sun met us on the dock for a dock side party and welcome back aboard.
My wife and I really enjoy cruising on Norwegian, we feel that they offer a very personalized experience. The crew is always so friendly and helpful. We like the free style approach to cruising where we can choose to eat whenever and wherever we want. We found that The Sun offered those qualities in spades. We were especially fond of Arvin our cabin steward, Patrick the concierge who met our every need every day and Dan the Food and Beverage director (he up growing up in a small town in Arkansas just minutes from where my wife is from, we really enjoyed sitting and chatting with him), Jim the piano man in the Windjammer, and the entire morning and noon service staff in Adigio who did a wonderful job every day with our breakfast and lunch needs. It was a wonderful trip, we had a great time and we are already thinking very seriously about booking the same cruise again next year.

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QUEER ISSUE: Why Are Faggots so Afraid of Faggots? questions queer assimilationism
"I think the re-emergence of interest in things like ACT UP is very interesting. When I came to San Francisco I was part of ACT UP, and — with everybody dying from drugs, suicide, and AIDS — there was a real drive to come together to confront this massive structural neglect and recognize how brutalities align themselves to bring about our annihilation. But nostalgia can be dangerous without recognizing the reality. There was a very real, very dangerous moment in the 1990s when activism suddenly became about discrimination in the military, of all things.
"It turned from trying to guarantee health care for all to being about whether or not we could go die faster in wars. Whose decision was that?"
Marke B. is the author of Queer: The Ultimate LGBT Gude for Youth (Zest)
So the case being made here is that unless we embrace mincing faggotry, play dress up and adhere to glitter, all gay men are automatically as masculine as frat boys on steroids and by extension pro-corporate.
Here's a thought: not all gay men fetishize gender. There remain a few of we gay men who are gay because we are into rock hard dick, hot ass thumping sex, cock sucking and cum. Given the recurring sex panics and ever present specter of STDs, that is much riskier than the dress up games of the gender glitterati, especially in coastal cities.
There is a lot more to assimilation than what you wear and what aspect of patriarchal binary gender norms work for you. The original ACTUP and Queer Nation fought in the streets to make being gay NOT a fashion statement.
Being a radical queer is much more about what goes on between your ears and how you use what's between your legs than how you carry yourself relative to cultural, standards.
There are plenty of gender variant gay men who are as intellectually assimilationist as Supervisor Scott Penis.
The case being made here is that the rush to marriage has quashed many of the real discussions we should be having in the community. You must be thinking of another interview, perhaps an imaginary one.
Nasty habit you have there.
on assholism (not to defame that important body portal) elsewhere on the site. Also, worse, you're late.
Your just personally don't like any comment that criticizes the behavior of gays.
While the same comment directed at, say, republicans or the "one percent" would not only be retained, but rejoiced in.
Hypocrisy, thy name is Marke.
your out-of-control relativism needs some fine-tuning.
Marke, read the except from the article you wrote:
"Sycamore Bernstein, who often writes for the Guardian, was speaking about the impetus behind her latest book, Why are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform (AK Press), an invigorating collection of essays from a vast variety of queer people that "challenges the assimilationist norms of a corporate-cozy lifestyle." (Let's just say that President Obama's limp "evolution" on same-sex marriage was not going to be a topic of conversation.) From envisioning a more faggoty Internet and reclaiming perversity as a proud, queer norm to honestly exploring the complex cultural confusions that Western-originating political expressions of gayness can wreak on immigrant and native homos, Faggots goes there with inspiring directness."
This speaks to much more than marriage. It also speaks to "masculinity," "objectification" and "the desire to conform."
There are discussions to be had about all of these, discussions that you've just tried to preempt.
For instance, the greatest innovation of gay men is that we can both have objectification and subjectification of our partners and that there is nothing wrong with that.
The other innovation is that we can be of any degree of masculinity or femininity and there is nothing wrong with that. Bernstein seems to claim that there is.
None of it is normative yet it is all normative. Funny how it works that way!
than wearing glitter and feeling self-persecuted, too.
There's no persecution involved in observing that perceptions amongst the glitterati are not consonant with the experiences of most gay men.
The sense of persecution here is on the part of Bernstein, that every gay man is not bowing down deep enough out of respect for the fey and that the fey are covering for their own insecurities by claiming that every gay man who is not fey is somehow pathological.
The other innovation of gay men is that we're united in diversity through horniness, that we get to know people from diverse walks of life, including gender expression, who most heteros would never even consider talking to.
I mean, shit, many of us grew up in the generation that saw "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" over and again, listened to the Kinks "Lola" and ran with the old skool punk crowd as teens, this is nothing new or special to us, we've long gotten used to it.
is not to have "every gay man bow down" -- it's to be included in the conversation, something that's not happening as everyone parrots the marriage and "no homo" line. We'd like to be part of contemporary politics too, not just art from the 1970s, thanks. (You could have at least referenced Lou Reed here?)
If one of our "innovations" is to experience diversity, then why are we stifling it? That's the basic question being asked here, as I see it.
We have been exposed to so many images of gender autonomy that it is nothing special anymore. I was TEN when WOWTS came out, it was 1972, Marke. That set the stage in part for almost universal acceptance of LGB, at least, over the intervening FOUR DECADES. Trans folks were late out of the gate in coalescing an independent politics, but they're catching up.
But we're not talking trans here, we're talking gay male. Or are we?
It is not that most folks don't validate diversity, it is that we're so accustomed to it that it is not a show stopper.
I understand that some folks don't feel validated unless the show stops for their fabulousness. But that is not most of our problem, now is it? And I'm sure that the self esteem of some is damaged unless the show stops, and that is a matter for the therapists' couch, not a political liberation movement.
I'd argue that it goes the other way, that the only gay men who are portrayed in public are the very ones who exemplify the imagery that is used to marginalize us. Every gay man is presumed to favor glitter, to favor lame, to favor drag and femme conduct. The only progressive gay men tend towards the femme. Active and confident tops scare the hell out of the oversocialized lefties.
A back of the napkin analysis of the content of how gay men are represented in the SFBG would confirm this, that we are only gay if we act out. And that goes a long way to explain why progressives lost gay men, because we're viewed as the straight white male capitalists of the queer world.
I could give a flying fuck about how anyone carries themselves, what kind of clothes one wears and one's stance on glitter, heels or pumps. The only thing that binds the vast majority of all gay men together is love of cock, rock hard cock and lots of it.
Anything aside from that is a distraction to most of us and inspires one big collective yawn, been there, seen it, done it.
I think you feeling so attacked is part of your own insecurity (a very stereotypically masculine insecurity at that). And your constant fixation with cock may help shore up your machismo in your mind, but it really just seems like immaturity to me.
But when masculinity (or, worse, culturally enforced masculinity) becomes the dominating mode in the community it deserves to be questioned. And when it leads to social conservatism and the exclusion of substantial voices in the community, it deserves to be challenged.
Maybe you thought Andrew Sullivan blogged for this site?
Marke, I'm not taking time to write a book about how my view of homosexuality is normative and everyone else is in some state of denial for not honoring my view as normative. I'm responding to someone else doing that. It is all normative, none of it is normative, that's the beauty.
The title of the damn book asserts that some of us are afraid of others. You interpret that such that the focus on marriage has made anyone who does not embrace their inner mincing faggot as a masculine frat boy who wants to get married and be done with it.
This is all such insider baseball that is has no play with most of us. I'm sure that lack of legitimation from most gay men of the notion that lack of faggotry means assimilation and marriage will result in another storm of epistles calling for a big ole pity party where we'll all be denigrated as wanting to join the military unless we drink the kool ade.
of essays from voices that don't get heard enough, in my opinion. Whatever you're constructing in your head about it is fine, since you never do anything about anything anyway, Marc. Maybe you SHOULD take the time to write a book. talk about inside baseball -- all you do is comment on progressive blogs about how progressives are too progressive.
Marke, why do you always try to disarm cogent political critique with ad hominem? That's assholism, dude.
I've DONE more radical activism over the past 35 years on a wide range of political issues than you've ever contemplated thinking about. More of the radical activism that I've done over that time period has been more successful in the aggregate and more radical in reach than anyone else active in SF progressive politics today, hands down and none of it was paid.
At this point that kind of activism does not work anymore, the system has adapted an immune response to it and holds up paid activists as political fig leaves to insulate the system from demands for change. Individuals are either bought off with crumbs or are so deluded that they are reduced to complete ineffectiveness.
The same crap is going down with Occupy Pride, where, you guessed, it, the focus is the narrowest possible issue that is important to activists but does not mobilize beyond the converted, parade sponsor Wells Fargo not providing trans health benefits. This is how populist energies are kept out of politics.
Either we adapt or we perish. We are perishing because activists focus on narcissistic narrow and less-popular issues instead of organizing on radical issues that enjoy broad popular support. These liberals posing as leftie radicals cannot be allowed to speak for "the people," because they despise most of them for violating PC codes to some extent. It is this kind of liberal elitism which has marginalized radical progressive politics in the US, a contempt for the people and an assertion over their objections of what is best for them. This is why neoliberalism is triumphant scant four years after cratering the economy and here in San Francisco, because we can't do shit to stop it.
The near complete disconnect of the SFBG from political relevance has happened for the same reason, you're enamored with self promoting scenesters who blame a super majority of San Franciscans for their political failure which and that has clouded your analytical judgement as to what political approaches are effective and which are not. I'd rather just write, work and play than participate under those terms where my friends' feelings are more important than human beings and the environment laboring under the burdens of perennial political failure.
There are no instances over the past 30 years where paid activists and authors have furthered radical change in the US. It is just a merry go round that they ride so that they can look cool while they assuage their liberal (and all too often Catholic) guilt.
The assertion that if one does not play fey that one believes that same sex marriage is central to gay liberation and that one is assimilationist is fallacious. It also ignores the fact that economic equality for many LGBT like for many heteros, is predicated on relationship and job status. Calling out marriage is just fine, but it is not like we are anywhere near powerful enough to free people from having to rely on job or relationship for certain types of economic support.
It further ignores the fact that the time to organize against the conservative hijacking of the LGBT liberation movement was when it was ripe, in the 1990s. That check has been cashed, game over, dudette.
Being gay is about sex, that is why we are homoSEXuals not homoGENDERals. The small minority who fetishize gender are more active and have attempted to dominate the debate by projecting their fetish onto the rest of us as normative in a way that no other subgroup of LGBT tries.
Seriously, Marke, who the fuck do you think you are, printing these patently bogus assertions and then calling me out when I point out the contradictions in the piece? Go wear your hot pink with glitter, heels and gold lamé at pride and give me a break, hippie.
The Occupy issue with Wells Fargo is that it's fueling the continued eviction of thousands. And also, again, hardly any of the above piece is about some weird gender war that you keep projecting (which, talk about stuck in the 90s). The context of the discussion about the hijacking of 90s movement was in the context of a question about nostalgia, so naturally the answer deals with the past.
Yes, flamboyance is being sidelined in the name of some fake conformist masculinity that's so backwards it's doing loop-de-loops (for all your bitching about how masculinity is precious, are you waxing your chest and eyebrows right now?). But the main point is looking at how gay men have sacrificed difference in order to promote some family-friendly, cuddly, acceptable normality -- surely the same point you've made at some point in your prattling -- and how that sacrifice has derailed many of the discussions that we should be having. The book is a collection of essays that ranges so much further than some argument you seem to be having with yourself about the relevance of the progressive movement.
No one's asserting that you're either for marriage or you're genderqueer, lol. That's your own dichotomy. And if you consider same-sex marriage's acceptance in the US radical, then sure, tons of paid activists and authors have made a radical change in the past 30 years.
I really think you SHOULD write a book, and try to use all this anger constructively, Marc. You could really just string all these comments together!
Marke, there is no anger in reading a piece and responding to infirmities in that piece.
As far as Occupy and Wells Fargo, yeah, the substance is legitimate but the effectiveness of progressive housing discourse has long since been exhausted in its current form. Grafting failed approaches onto something new and fresh will taint that new fresh thing and cause it to fail as well. Sure, evictions are activist priorities, but activists have failed to connect with voters on that for the better part of the last decade. How about activists put aside their preferences for a moment and act like organizers and put the majority's radical interests first?
The reason why "faggots hate faggots" is the same reason why "niggers hate niggers" and "bitches hate bitches," because many of us had the shit kicked out of us because people thought that we were gay and used those disparaging stereotypes to express their homophobia.
The representation in the SFBG is almost exclusively that gay men are stereotypical when the reality is that we're profoundly diverse. That means that there are hardly any representations of gay men in the SFBG that are not stereotypical.
"Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice."
--Quentin Crisp
Crisp refers to his faggotry as intentional exhibitionism, not some immutable characteristic that he was born with. I concur with Crisp's perspective.
Nobody is sidelining flamboyance in favor of frat boy masculinity except in some sort of paranoid, defensive world that you inhabit. Isn't that fun, Marke, using that kind of language to avoid a real discussion?
The error you put forth is that unless I legitimate something important to you, that means that I hate that thing that is important to you as well as everything else that is important to you, and I hate you too.
Don't support an almost exclusive casting of gay men as glittery, effeminate and prancing? Then you are completely pro-frat boy masculinity and hate trans folks.
Follow that reasoning at your peril. It explains the lack of traction of progressives in San Francisco in a few words.
Marke, the piece specifically makes the connection between masculinity and marriage. I did not make that up, you printed it. Why do you print things that you claim are absurd after you print them?
Same sex marriage is by no means radical. Radicals like me were howling into the darkness in the 1990s against the hijacking of the LGBT movement by marriage and military. Where were you? Where was the SFBG?
Angry? Hell no, I'm positively GAY!
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FOUR people are standing trial today in connection with the killing of a Southampton man who was shot in the head.
Jemmikai Orlebar-Forbes, 20, Isaac Boateng, 21, and Pierre Lewis, 20, are all accused of murdering Jahmel Jones last year.
The 23-year-old was shot in a house in St Mary Street on April 20 last year and died later in hospital.
A fourth person, 34-year-old Rachel Kenehan, is accused of assisting the men by driving them to London from Basingstoke.
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BETHLEHEM, GA Michael J. Fredette, 64, a former longtime resident of Rutland, died January 5, 2013, in Georgia following a long illness.
He was born on October 1, 1948, in Rutland, the son of Wilfred and Marion (Brown) Fredette.
Mr. Fredette grew up in Rutland, graduating from the Rutland High School in 1967.
He was employed as a manager by the Grossmans Lumber Yard for 26 years. He then worked for the Georgia Pacific Company out of Burlington for several years, prior to being transferred to Atlanta, GA, where he worked for many years prior to his retirement.
He enjoyed drag racing in his younger years, winning several trophies. He loved to watch sports, especially football.
Survivors include his wife Carolann of GA; his mother Marion Fredette of Rutland; a sister Susan Heidelmark and her husband Fred of Earlton, N.Y.; three brothers, William Fredette and his wife Joanne of Benita, FL, Robert Fredette and his companion Patty, and Gary Fredette of Middletown Springs; several nieces and nephews.
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Deputy Mayor Jim Cunningham has completed 11 marathons over the past 20 years. He's also gotten hypothermia while hiking in Calgary. But he doubts anything that dramatic will happen this weekend when he celebrates the opening of a new trail in Poway.
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UPDATED: Fire at Market Place shopping centre
Updated 3:53pm Friday 9th May 2014 in News By Liam Thorp, Reporter
A FIRE broke out at The Market Place Shopping Centre this morning.
Firefighters were called after a blaze started in the sign of a shop on the ground floor of the building.
Crews from Wigan, who were providing cover at Bolton Central fire station, attended at about 10.15am.
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The history of the South Wales Railway is inseparable from that of Neyland, whose origins date back to April 1856 when the railway opened in the small town, which at that point had fewer than 200 inhabitants.
Not surprisingly then, Isambard Kingdom Brunel has become an icon for the town after choosing Neyland as a railway terminus. This led to the dramatic transformation of the town which included knocking down many of the existing buildings which were replaced with new ones for the railway workers.
Under the name 'New Milford' a new pontoon was built and the area became a major trading route with Ireland, Portugal and Brazil and a boom period began which lasted for 50 years.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A white-cheeked gibbon who has been part of one of the most popular exhibits at the Roger Williams Park Zoo for decades has died.
The zoo says Gloria was euthanized Friday after suffering for months with a disease that had symptoms similar to those of Parkinson's.
Gloria was born in 1983 at the Minnesota Zoo and has been at the Roger Williams Park Zoo in Providence since 1989.
White-cheeked gibbons are apes that are native to rainforests Southeast Asia. They are classified as a critically endangered species.
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The 23rd New York Cabaret Convention, held at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall, pays tribute to the late Donald Smith, the cabaret impresario who was the founder and executive director of The Mabel Mercer Foundation and creator of the annual convention.
The three-night event, titled Celebrating Donald Smith, plays 6 PM Oct. 17-19.
The Oct. 17 Gala Opening Night, hosted by KT Sullivan (named in April as the Foundation's artistic director), features the annual presentations of The Julie Wilson Award (to newcomer Shana Farr) and The Noel Coward Award (to Jeff Harnar). Performers include Emily Bergl, Barbara Carroll, Tony DeSare, Ms. Farr, Lauren Fox, Gregory Generet, Edward Hibbert, Valerie Lemon, Amanda McBroom, Mark Nadler, Catherine Russell, Sullivan and Amra-Faye Wright.
A Salute to Cole Porter (Smith's favorite composer), held Oct. 18, includes performances by Karen Akers, Anna Bergman, Ann Hampton Callaway, Jeff Harnar, Clint Holmes, Marilyn Maye, Andrea Marcovicci, Maude Maggart, Colleen McHugh, Todd Murray, T. Oliver Reid, Steve Ross, Jennifer Sheehan, Daryl Sherman and Billy Stritch. Marcovicci and Harnar host.
Thanks for the Memory, held Oct. 19, spotlights the talents of Christine Andreas, Klea Blackhurst, Carole J. Bufford, Jim Caruso, Natalie Douglas, Nicholas King, Karen Mason, Beckie Menzi and Tom Michael, Sidney Myer, Lee Roy Reams and Craig Rubano. Blackhurst will host. The Mabel Mercer Award and the first annual Donald F. Smith Award will be presented to, respectively, Andreas and Blackhurst.
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(TB: this from David Wegener, our American-African correspondent on home assignment here in these United States for the coming year.)
Reading the recent article about Pat Summit, the head woman's basketball coach at the University of Tennessee, has put me in a reflective mood. If you read the article and are a regular reader of this blog, you'll feel pretty sad. Sorry that Pat Summit has early onset Alzheimer's disease. Sorry that her marriage ended in divorce. Sorry that she's given her life to basketball. Sorry for her son Tyler.
Sorry Pat is such a man--this last idea was the dominant impression I had after reading the piece by Sally Jenkins (who calls Pat her best friend).
When doctors at Mayo Clinic told her she had Alzheimer's and urged her to retire, she responded, "Do you have any idea who you're dealing with?" Jenkins describes her as "a marble pillar, ramrod straight, that seems to have stood for a thousand years, while everything around it falls." She is characterized by "resolve." Things like surrender and acceptance and vulnerability have never "come naturally to her." If you watch the interview and see what it reveals about Tyler's relationship with his mom, well, it makes you even sadder. Even sick.
She is the most successful coach in women's sports today...Her teams have won 1037 games (against only 196 losses, an astounding winning percentage of 84%), been to 18 final fours and won eight national championships. That's way ahead of the records of, for example, Coach Knight or Coach Krzyzewski. Hundreds and thousands of young women want to be just like Summit. She has impacted the lives of so many players, but in what way?
So that they'll be tougher, more impervious to pain, less vulnerable.
There's something deeply wrong about the way we do women's sports in this country. A few months back, when I read an article about Danica Patrick, former Indy car racer and newly committed NASCAR driver, I had similar thoughts. She tells her fans that they needn't worry, she has no plans to have children; her career as a racecar driver comes first.
"I am not someone who has a strong yearning for kids at all … I see all my friends with kids. I will get up at 10 a.m. and text them and they'll say, 'ha, funny. One of my sons was in my room at 5:30 in the morning so I can't say I slept until 10.' That's just their life. I think more all the time that it looks hard, that looks like something I am not ready for and doesn't interest me at this point … My focus is on racing."
Fathers, don't let your daughters give themselves to sport. We've sown the wind and are reaping the whirlwind.
Both my wife and I played collegiate athletics (it is actually how we met) and when the opportunity came this year for our oldest to start we had a long talk about this and these issues that you note above played a large part in our decision not to enter her into these competitions (though I must say the necessary Sabbath implications also played a large part).
From the last page of the article -
"Tyler divides his time between his mother's sprawling house on the banks of the Tennessee River, and an apartment just off-campus he shares with two college friends, with her cheerful approval.
Most nights, however, he spends at home. When everyone departs the Summitt household there are two people left, gazing at each other with a deep, indestructible understanding. Suddenly, something becomes clear: Summitt's qualities and legacy have been vastly underrated. All these years, while she was coaching basketball and teaching other people's daughters, she very quietly and without any fanfare, did a stupendous job of mothering her son.
"I followed her everywhere growing up," Tyler says. "I followed her on bus rides, airplanes, in gyms and in locker rooms all over the country, and I thought she taught me everything she had. But she saved this lesson, to always come out and be open, to not be scared, to have the courage to face the truth like she's doing."
The boy, you realize with a start, is looking more like her all the time. He has the same scotch-red coloring, the same uplifted chin. The eyes are slightly different, a milder more limpid blue. But there is the same look in them, a quality. A candle."
Words fail me when I consider the tragedy of these two. I have a husband, a son, grandsons, a brother. Not a single one of them would ever, ever, ever want anyone to say such things about them. What have we become as a society? What woman will ever want to marry her son? Who wants a "Mama's boy"?
May the Lord deliver us from this evil and return us to His Word, giving us hearts to obey it.
I so agree about what women's sports are doing to young women. Recently there was a picture I saw somewhere of young women scrapping it out on the basketball floor and I would bet many of their fathers were on the sidelines rooting for them. Again, what are we becoming as a society?
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What is going to be sad to watch is how the University of Tennessee is going to cut her loose after this year. The reason being is that 99% of other coaches are going to use her condition against her in recruiting. When top players are no longer coming to play at Tennessee, she will be gone. She will be sit at her home as her mind slips away into darkness. What will a man give in exchange for his soul? Fame? Championships?
Well, I don't think anyone would want to be told they look like their mother, but I don't see how anything that is written here makes him a "Mama's Boy." He just sounds like a man who respects his mother's accomplishments and is doing what he can to care for her during her illness.
My father abandoned my mother, who is in her early 70's, three years ago. Since then, I've done what I can to care for her, and she has also taught me a lot in this time about how to be godly in the face of such difficult circumstances. She, a schoolteacher, is certainly no Pat Summit. But for a man to say that he has a close and loving relationship with his mother is no shame. It's the author of the article, it seems, who made things sound so mushy and overwrought.
College Jay,
I had the same feelings about Tyler as you did. IMHO, he is honoring the Commandment to honor her mother, whether he is a Christian or not.
If and when Tyler was ready for marriage and was a Christian with beliefs reasonably compatible with my denomination, I would be honored for him to marry a (hypothetical) daughter of ours (hypothetical because there's no young woman of his age group in our family).
My .02,
I think part of the concern is the lack of fatherly influence and mentoring in the young man's life. There is a wrong way in which a young man can give honor and care to his mother.
David Wegener,
so what do you think about Sanya Richards-Ross the 400m runner, currently competing at the World Champs in Daegu, whose dad teaches at John Macarthur's seminary (I think you said a while back).
Has she chosen a foolish path?
I'd love to hear some more thoughts on this. Over here in the UK we have Christina Ohurugu who is a Christian and Olympic 400m champion, and I am uncomfortable when Christians hold her up as a role model.
I think you mean Allyson Felix. She's trying for a 200-400 double at Daegu. Richards-Ross is one of her main competitors in the 400. Felix has owned the 200 for several years now and has lately been doing quite well in the 400.
Allison is single and Richards became Richards-Ross last year. I think her husband is a pro football player. Those kind of two career things don't work, do they? I hope she retires soon.
Readers of this blog will be familiar with society's push to androgyny. Many women in sport (especially post high school) seem to try and be exactly like men. They want to show that they can be as tough as men, as dedicated to their sport as men, as fierce as men. Find an article about Pat Summit that has a photo gallery. Her facial expressions look a lot like Coach Knight, don't they?
All those qualities that are the glory of women are looked down upon by many women in sport. So we need to point that out to our daughters. Are those the kind of qualities we want to see in our daughters? If we are to help prepare them for marriage, will that end be helped by having them emulate Felix or Richards-Ross or Summit or Danica?
Are women's bodies designed for sports? We've been over this one already on this blog. The prevalence of knee injuries among female athletes is astounding.
There are a number of directions I could continue with this and I haven't even mentioned the pink elephant in the room. Or the red fox.
Certainly Tyler didn't have an ideal childhood and the lack of time spent with his dad (or at least time with a grandfather, uncle, cousin, neighbor, male teacher or male that travels with the team, etc.) did affect him. So have many young (and older) people; it was just becoming less than an aberration in my generation and I'm smack in the middle of the baby boomers).
I know nothing about this, but did Mr. Summitt want to be more involved in Tyler's life and Pat didn't allow this, or was he satisfied with the status quo? Did he travel a lot for his work and feel that Tyler was better off with his Mom?
Having said all that, how can you fault Tyler for doing the best he can under the circumstances? And I mean this question without hostility -- what is he doing that you and others think is so wrong?
Back to the quiz I have to finish tonight.
I am not faulting the boy. I think it is a sins of the fathers shall be visited in the sons. Whatever the reasons for father absence in this situation the fact remains that he was absent. Recognizing the absence of fathers as having a deleterious affect on their children isn't the same thing as blaming the children.
I apologize for the typos and the missing word!
Thanks for the clarification, Kamilla. I get your point now.
About the typos...I'm often tempted to type blog posts in MS Word so I can use the spelling and grammar checkers before I cut and paste them into the comment box.
>>There are a number of directions I could continue with this and I haven't even mentioned the pink elephant in the room. Or the red fox.
David, please continue. I read the article and I think, in what ways is Ms. Summit womanly rather than manly and I can't find any; and I look at her son's statements and I think, in what way would these statements be different if Ms. Summit were his husband and he were her wife, and it's odd to not be able to articulate a difference and it seems like there should be a difference...
I see from Miss Ludwig and Mrs. Wilson's comments that they recoil in horror at what they see, and I think I should too, but I have confusion instead. It reminds me of when the Lord first awakened my conscience to the evil of abortion - at first I could read about it and have no feelings at all. It was no small progress to begin to be able to *feel* the weight of the horror of abortion. How can I learn to do the same regarding this man and her wife? Please continue.
If I were you, I would be stopping where you stopped because it gets really dirty and messy if you continue. I appeal to you respectfully as to a father - don't be a woman, show me what it means to be a man.
Well, Daniel, I'll try, but my illustrations go in something of a different direction.
The pink elephant in the room is rampant homosexuality in women's sports. I don't know this topic well, but I'm guessing some of our readers do. Very few authors of sports books or magazines deal straight on with this topic.
The red fox is anoxeria and bullemia among (mainly) long distance runners. I am a subscriber to Track and Field News and the pictures they show of female (usually high school but sometimes college) runners are sometimes scary. African runners (male and female) sometimes just don't get enough to eat, but in America, that is not the problem.
Ah, I thought the elephants and foxes and what Miss Ludwig and Mrs. Wilson were seeing were all the same thing that I was not seeing. Thank you.
I ran across this post in the archives. It prompted me to find out how Pat and Tyler Summitt are doing. In case anyone is interested, here are some updates:


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I came across the following obituary of Bob Doyle in The Independent on Saturday the 31st of January 2009. I had not heard of Bob Doyle before I read his obituary which is a real shame given the extraordinary life he led!
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"Hello, my name is Sarah, and I am a sun addict."
I was the WORST as a teenager. I would tan at least thirty minutes a day every day (both outside and in the tanning bed--*gasp*!), and never, ever wore sunscreen. Sure, I had a great tan and skin that did not burn easily, but I am paying for it now BIG TIME. I have facial hyperpigmentation under my eyes like you would not believe. And seeing as I do not want to do even further damage, those dark spots look absolutely wonderful against my present day "I-am-so-white-I-glow-in-the-dark" skin.
Magnified by the fact that May was National Skin Care Awareness Month, the weight of my guilt feels that much heavier. I recognize there are many wonderful benefits to shedding light on a very serious subject, however does the world really have to dedicate an entire month focusing on such a huge personal flaw?
Truth be told, the answer is yes, world, go ahead shine the light as brightly as you can. In fact, turn on the flood lights, because the following message needs to be heard NOW. Every year in the U.S., over 68,000 new cases of melanoma are reported, and 8,700 people die from this horrible cancer. And that number is only on the rise. Numbers are one thing, but once upon a time this reality hit much too close to home. A few years ago, a personal friend had a very scary encounter with skin cancer. A relatively normal looking mole turned his world upside down, as an entire portion of his neck and lymph nodes had to be removed. Not only that, but chemotherapy also proved to be a bigger challenge than thought possible. Knowing his story was my wake up call to "stop the insanity" and start caring for my skin the way that I should.
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Here's a fabulous alternative to battered and deep-fried shrimp. Coating the shrimp with panko breadcrumbs, spraying with cooking spray and then baking give this appetizer a wonderful crunch without all the saturated fat and calories of deep-frying. —Cher Schwartz, Ellisville, Missouri
- 1-1/2 cups panko (Japanese) bread crumbs
- 2 egg whites
- 1 tablespoon fat-free milk
- 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 3 teaspoons seafood seasoning
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 30 uncooked large shrimp, peeled and deveined
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- Place bread crumbs in a shallow bowl. In another shallow bowl, combine egg whites and milk. In a third shallow bowl, combine flour, seafood seasoning, salt and pepper. Dip shrimp in the flour mixture, egg mixture, then bread crumbs.
- Place shrimp on a baking sheet coated with cooking spray; spritz shrimp with cooking spray. Bake at 400° for 8-12 minutes or until shrimp turn pink and coating is golden brown, turning once. Yield: 2-1/2 dozen.
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The department was given a Leadership in Fitness Excellence award during the 2012 Indiana Emergency Response Conference in the Combination/Volunteer category. The award was co-presented by the Indiana Fire Chiefs Association and Public Safety Medical and was presented during an awards Banquette on Sept. 14.
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Mr. Walter A. "Brother" Aeschliman, 85, of Lebanon, died Friday, Feb. 15, 2013, at home.
The son of Walter and Eva (Querry) Aeschliman, Walter was born on Aug. 30, 1927, in Johnstown, Pa.
Walter served in the United States Army. He was married to Betty Jo (Dishman) for almost 60 years; she preceded him in death on May 1, 2011.
Walter was a successful businessman who owned several businesses including Walter A. Aeschliman Inc. in Indianapolis. He was a member of the Grand Lodge Free and Accepted Masons of Indiana Lodge No. 669 for more than 60 years, Lebanon Elks Lodge and United Brotherhood of Carpenters. He was a member of Lynhurst Baptist Church and in his later years attended New Brunswick Church of Christ. He enjoyed fishing, hunting and traveling throughout the United States and internationally. He supported the sports programs in the Decatur Central Township of Indianapolis throughout his life.
Survivors include his children Tamie Jo (Jim) Morog, Keith (Kamilla) Aeschliman, Dana (Katarzyna) Aeschliman, and Troy (Patrea) Aeschliman; grandchildren Amber Aeschliman Lamar, Ashley (Sam) Morog Starkey, Christina Morog, Brian Aeschliman, Julie Venis Morog, Seth Aeschliman, Zeb Aeschliman, Brooke Aeschliman, and Daphne Aeschliman; and great-grandson Ethan Lamar.
Family and friends will gather at 11 a.m. on Saturday, March 9, for services at New Brunswick Church of Christ, with the Rev. Jim Coyle officiating.
Mr. Aeschliman will be laid to rest in Oak Hill Cemetery in Lebanon next to his wife.
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