http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2009/01/08/what_s_wrong_with_this_picture Comments On: What's Wrong with This Picture? by Dan Savage en-us Copyright 2009 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:01 -0800 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:00:00 -0800 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss so sorry your panties
are in a wad.
However,
I've got a country to run
and a world to lead
so I'm short on
"holding Savage's hand
and saying soothing things"
time.
So,
Shut the F Up!
You filthy animal.
Posted by Barak Obama]]> Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:35:43 -0800 The Stranger New World Order.
Obama is change.
Deal with it.
Posted by Rev Rick Warren]]> Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:30:12 -0800 The Stranger
It's good to know that this new movement seems to be stuck in the usual gay mode of sitting on your ass and whining. It would take a lot of hard work, leadership, and money. Three things "the community", and the nation at large, for that matter, seem to be lacking in these days.

No thanks. Go ahead and form your non-party party. I'll work for change. Because if you show up, act like an adult (another thing "the community" has trouble with) and earn a place at the table, you won't always get the "shit end of everything". It's all about knowing that it's NOT all about you, all the time.
Posted by Frustrated fag]]> Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:26:28 -0800 The Stranger
it's really not all that mavericky or a "little crusade" , when you think about it; more like the kind of fair starting point that others take for granted.

the guarantee of equal opportunity and access to justice should be the baseline, and non-negotiable.

but hey, if you want to keep being sat at the kids table getting the shit end of everything, then by all means, keep going down that path with the partisan Politicians, we all know how much they care.
Posted by binary politics is played out]]> Fri, 09 Jan 2009 03:21:55 -0800 The Stranger
But it makes you feel all Mavericky, and that's what's important, right?
Posted by Frustrated fag]]> Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:33:41 -0800 The Stranger
I mean thats fine if the status quo and internalized oppression are your thing, then we should all stick with the Dems.

Just because they are less evil then the GOP, does not mean most Dems still wont sell you down the river at the first chance.

but ymmv.
doubtful though.
Posted by viable third party]]> Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:19:27 -0800 The Stranger
Wanna work with the folks in the Big Leagues? Check your expectations, learn strategy, don't bolt at the first disagreement, don't cry when you don't get everything on your wish list (guess what, you won't), network network network, and work hard.

The first big test is how we're gonna deal with the (inevitable) deflation of the Great Hope Bubble.
Posted by Andy Niable]]> Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:48:00 -0800 The Stranger
Jesus, if nothing else, this election has reinforced a lot of stereotypes of gays as neurotic pansies.

So your miracle man didn't call you after your one night stand? So what? You should be used to that by now. You're still going to have to see him at the bar next Saturday night.

Roll with the fucking punches. Obama ain't your Ken doll, but he can do a whole lot to help you - if you play the game like a man. If you want to be taken seriously, just can't knock over the game board and go crying to mommy when something doesn't go exactly your way.


Posted by Frustrated fag]]> Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:38:02 -0800 The Stranger "Look, the only thing that's going to enable change is to oust Pelosi/Reid."

I totally agree, maybe not right now, but soon if they don't start getting effective, ie; bring charges or at least hearings against the Bush White House and DOJ.

"Even having Bernie Sanders and Kusinch and Chomsky in Obama's cabinet won't be able to get anything done without Congress' help."

sure the senate may be a little tougher than the house, but it's not a forgone conclusion that there is any meaningful political capital left for the Republicans to use and threaten with at this point, they were given the scraps, why the hell are the big D dems and the new admin trying to throw them a bone. maybe it's about money, or a reciprical fellatio thing???
Posted by zippy schnozlefritz]]> Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:32:53 -0800 The Stranger
Look, it looks like shit, it smells like shit, it's probably shit, but I'm giving him a year before I'm absolutely confirmed. He hasn't made a single move AS President, and I owe him that much (probably not that long, but still.)

This Republican concern-trolling all over the media is fucking terrible and I can't wait for the traditional media to fold. Even the NYT can't get enough Neocon cock in their mouth, they need more!
Posted by meh]]> Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:51:19 -0800 The Stranger
Look, the only thing that's going to enable change is to oust Pelosi/Reid. Even having Bernie Sanders and Kusinch and Chomsky in Obama's cabinet won't be able to get anything done without Congress' help.
Posted by meh]]> Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:48:51 -0800 The Stranger Posted by marcus]]> Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:39:38 -0800 The Stranger Posted by josh]]> Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:23:51 -0800 The Stranger
perhaps since that(change) was such a nebulous and timely term, he was great for capitalizing on it, but still all that lip service and then a 180 from it is gonna sting, and it's not just gays that are feeling that now.
Posted by a wary Obamaniac]]> Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:07:56 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Andy Niable]]> Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:58:16 -0800 The Stranger I guess thats all right, even though I lobbied for Dr. Phil

you know at first, I was just helping a brother out, see what that got me. So you know what?
It's on now, It is on bitches.

Posted by the Oprah/Harpo posse]]> Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:35:29 -0800 The Stranger I figured I'd at least like him until after inauguration... but nope.
Posted by Andrew]]> Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:27:00 -0800 The Stranger http://skepdic.com/facilcom.html

Posted by Heather]]> Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:54:00 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Heather]]> Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:50:35 -0800 The Stranger this is not just a GOP trick, this a DNC move to tack towards the right after an election. they're more comfortable there, it's their natural habitat... the squishy middle, built upon the jetsom of idealism they don't need anymore.
Posted by SQUISHHH II mucky boogaloo]]> Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:41:56 -0800 The Stranger
Yeah, the AP is pretty much a Conservative-run and enabling tool here, and has concern trolled progressives pretty hard for years.

"oh!! there it is, that sound again,

yep, sounds like yet another progressive being thrown under the bus."

There are plenty of good reasons to decry progressives being thrown under buses without worrying about every little GOP trick to pit us against each other.
Posted by keep it to the good reasons and examples, for chrissake]]> Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:33:57 -0800 The Stranger
yep, sounds like yet another progressive being thrown under the bus.
Posted by SQUISHHH!!!]]> Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:30:14 -0800 The Stranger And harmful pity must be laid aside.
To whom do lions cast their gentle looks?
Not to the beast that would usurp their den.
Whose hand is that the forest bear doth lick?
Not his that spoils her young before her face.
Who 'scapes the lurking serpent's mortal sting?
Not he that sets his foot upon her back.
The smallest worm will turn being trodden on,
And doves will peck in safeguard of their brood.
Posted by tomasyalba]]> Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:27:34 -0800 The Stranger
I blame the media.

Still.
Posted by Will in Seattle]]> Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:27:11 -0800 The Stranger
something like that....
Posted by ClintonsArmy2012!]]> Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:15:57 -0800 The Stranger