Month: April 2007

Androphile Movies

A reader writes:

Don’t forget to add ‘Heat‘ to that list: two grown men (Pacino and De Niro) abandoning the women in their lives to play hide and go seek with guns. And in the final moment, after Deniro has been fatally wounded, they hold hands and revel in each others heroism: " … not half bad" says Pacino. "Pretty good your own self" says De Niro. Perfect.

Sharafi Released

What to make of this? A deal? Money quote:

Ahmadinejad’s announcement came after Iran’s state media reported that an Iranian envoy would be allowed to meet five Iranians detained by US forces in northern Iraq in January. Another Iranian diplomat, Jalal Sharafi, separately seized two months ago by uniformed gunmen in Iraq, was released and returned on Tuesday to Tehran.

But the president denied there was any connection, saying, "If we had wanted to exchange Jalal Sharafi with the rest (the Britons) we would have exchanged him for 100,000. But we pardoned them." He said the decision was "based on humanitarian considerations."

The agreement to give Tehran access to the five captured Iranians in Iraq has not been confirmed.

Rudy and Abortion

According to CNN, he’s still for public funding of abortions:

"There must be public funding for abortions for poor women," Giuliani says in the speech that is posted on the video sharing site YouTube. "We cannot deny any woman the right to make her own decisions about abortion."

When asked directly Wednesday if he still supported the use of public funding for abortions, Giuliani said "Yes."

I presume that means a definitive breach with the pro-life base.