Advocate Goes Inside Out
Andrew Sullivan passes along word that The Advocate "one of the oldest titles out there - will now become a 32-page insert in Out." Which is apparently published by the same conglomerate. Rather clearly, gay-oriented media are having the same troubles as other titles for the same reasons: Increased costs, loss of advertising revenues, and competition from the Internet chief among ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on November 1, 2009 09:09
Late Night Sexual Harrassment
Nell Scovell, one of a handful of women who has ever worked as a comedy writer for David Letterman -- or any of the late night comic talk shows -- contends that an atmosphere of sexual harassment routinely exists on those shows: Without naming names or digging up decades-old dirt, let’s address the pertinent questions. Did Dave hit on me? No. ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on October 28, 2009 09:00
Olympia Snowe is Impregnable
Andrew Sullivan says Olympia Snowe can do pretty much whatever she wants, "Because she has more Democratic support in her state than Republican, and the combination makes her impregnable." She's 62 years old, for goodness sakes. Surely, if she were planning to have children, she'd have done so by now.Posted in Outside The Beltway on October 22, 2009 11:32
Gay Marriage
Andrew Sullivan illustrates his latest post with this photo: It's a amusing question made unintentionally more clever by omission of an apostrophe.Posted in Outside The Beltway on October 21, 2009 09:34
Morehouse Bans Women’s Clothes
Morehouse, the top historically black college for men, has issued a new dress code of which Bill Cosby will approve but gays groups do not. Since he was named as president of Morehouse College in 2007, Robert M. Franklin has stressed the importance of defining education broadly, well beyond courses. He has been talking about the social and ethical obligations of ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on October 19, 2009 11:30
Drinking Like ‘Mad Men’
I'm getting the distinct sense that Slate's Double X spin-off is some sort of elaborate spoof rather than a smart, female-centric magazine. Yesterday, via Julian Sanchez, I came across their insipid advice column saying it pushed the "limits of friendship" to expect one's friends to not leave you for dead after you'd been administered a date rape drug. Today, via ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on October 16, 2009 14:38
The Limits of Friendship
Lucinda Rosenfeld, advice columist for Slate spin-off DoubleX, tells a girl whining because her friends ditched her after she'd been slipped a date rape drug at a party and then refused to come see her at the hospital to get over herself. Yes, overnights at the E.R. are the opposite of fun. So are disastrous drug trips. (I had one in ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on October 15, 2009 11:02
Obama and teh Gays
One of the emerging memes over the holiday weekend has been the dissatisfaction from gays that President Obama has paid lip service to their issues but not exactly gone out of his way to take a strong public posture on what they consider to be the most compelling human rights issue of our time. There was a big dinner, which ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on October 12, 2009 15:38
Overstatement of the Day – Gay Rights Edition
Andrew Sullivan: The survival of my own marriage is entirely in the hands of the federal government. I have no right to stay in my own home with my own husband - just the government's permission until they choose to revoke it. Gays do not have core constitutional rights in America. They have no right even to a secure home. And ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on July 28, 2009 15:03
Jimmy Carter Quits Baptists (Again)
Former President Jimmy Carter quit the Southern Baptist Convention more than eight years ago because of its refusal to ordain women as pastors (rather odd, since the policy had been in place since the early seventeenth century origins of the Baptist faith based on the example of another follow with the initials J.C.). To make sure people noticed -- since ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on July 21, 2009 07:58
Sextortion in High School
GQ has a rather weird piece about something that may or may not be a trend: High school kids using the Internet to extort sexual favors. This one has a twist, which I'll lot Conor Friedersdorf summarize: Tony Stancl, an 18 year old high school senior who created a fake female identity on Facebook, flirted with male classmates by Internet chat, ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on July 17, 2009 15:45
Sotomayor Wise, Disingenuous Latina
I'm in rare agreement with John Hinderaker in finding Sonia Sotomayor's explanation for her infamous "wise Latina" line less than plausible. I want to state up front, unequivocally and without doubt, I do not believe that any ethnic, racial or gender group has an advantage in sound judging. I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on July 14, 2009 14:44
CSM Teresa King Army’s Top Drill Sergeant
CSM Teresa King has been selected to head the Army's Drill Sergeants School, becoming the first woman in that prestigious slot. "This is a male-centric part of the Army," says Sergeant Major King, noting that her appointment "shows that the Army is emerging and … they don't have any reservations about putting the right person where they need to be." Women have ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on July 14, 2009 13:06
Taking Ockham’s Razor to Sarah Palin Haters
Since his departure from the Washington Times, Stacy McCain has become perhaps the most skilled attention whore in all the blogosphere. Yeah, I just wrote that. And put it on the Internet. In seeking to explain why Ken Layne and Andrew Sullivan seem to loathe Sarah Palin and, in particular, make sport of her Down Syndrome suffering infant son, Trig, Stacy puts ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on June 30, 2009 07:45
Quote of the Day – Turnabout is Fair Gay Edition
"We should not allow Republicans to marry. It undercuts the entire institution of marriage." Michael Reynolds of Sideways MenckenPosted in Outside The Beltway on June 24, 2009 15:28
