December 31, 2008
Last LGBT Parenting Roundup of the Year
Filed by Dana Rudolph | December 31, 2008 | 7:00 PM |For those of you still out there and reading pre-holiday, here's a quick roundup of LGBT parenting news to hold you for a few days: President Bush—yes, that's right—signed the Worker, Retiree and Employer Recovery Act of 2008 (WRERA), making...Read More
Arrest made in Taysia Elzy case; IMPD to establish LGBT liaison
Filed by Bil Browning | December 31, 2008 | 4:45 PM |CBS station WISH-TV is reporting that a suspect has been arrested in the double homicide of Taysia Elzy and Michael Hunt. The news station continues to refer to the victims as "two men" and, although new photographs are easily available...Read More
Gays to be Named to Obama Administration
Filed by Michael Crawford | December 31, 2008 | 4:00 PM |Unnamed sources say that the Obama-Biden Transition Team is very likely to name several openly LGBT people to key positions within the administration in the next several weeks. The appointments would follow disappointment expressed by LGBT activists after the Transition...Read More
Beyond marriage? Let's move beyond progress
Filed by Alex Blaze | December 31, 2008 | 3:20 PM |American workers have had their retirements under assault for over three decades. They've been losing as companies moved from defined-benefit programs over to defined-compensation and plans that were basically a tool to move worthless or soon-to-be worthless stock onto workers....Read More
In the Meantime...
Filed by Eric Leven | December 31, 2008 | 2:00 PM |Still working - still out of town. BUT! In the meantime tune into Debra. She's been having some issues with Jackie lately. Classic Youtube fodder: "She's like don't go to the skate park because they don't want you there. Oh,...Read More
BREAKING: Arrest being made in Taysia Elzy case
Filed by Bil Browning | December 31, 2008 | 12:40 PM |BREAKING NEWS I just got off the phone with a source in the Indianapolis Police Department. A suspect is currently being arrested in Ft. Wayne, Indiana of a suspect in the double homicide of Taysia Elzy and Michael Hunt. The...Read More
It's a Man's, Man's, Man's Meltdown
Filed by Terrance Heath | December 31, 2008 | 12:00 PM |This is a man's world But it wouldn't be nothing, nothing without a woman or a girl He's lost in the wilderness He's lost in bitterness ~ James Brown, "It's a Man's, Man's, Man's World" It's been written many times...Read More
Which god is driving the bus?
Filed by Father Tony | December 31, 2008 | 11:30 AM |It becomes clear that as we switch out the god we have in the driver's seat, each of the passengers will eventually and in turn be thrown under the bus. There is no universal god. Only an extremely personal one....Read More
The Christian Q-tip Caption This
Filed by Bil Browning | December 31, 2008 | 10:00 AM |Your best caption or witty retort is requested. After the jump, mood music to help you fine tune that droll one-off line into a sparkling riposte! Henrietta and Myrna will have you so excited you'll want to go tell it...Read More
Whitewashing Milk
Filed by Ed Team | December 31, 2008 | 7:30 AM |"Bitch, I've seen queers more fired up when Bed Bath & Beyond runs out of sale items. Where's the passion? Was Van Sant afraid that audiences wouldn't be sympathetic if 70s-era gay activists were people who suffered, swore, fought back,...Read More
Best of 2008 Censored
Filed by Bil Browning | December 31, 2008 | 7:00 AM |I love these Jimmy Kimmel sketches were they bleep totally unnecessary words. His round up for the best of 2008 is absolutely hilarious. (Hat tip to Bamboo Nation.)...Read More
