Category: The Dish

A boy sings about his two fathers – and how much he loves them. He was adopted when he was one.

Just a reminder that I’ll be reading and signing books in Washington, D.C., tonight at 6 pm at Politics and Prose at 5015 Connectitcut Avenue; I’ll be on CNN’s Reliable Sources tomorrow morning at 10 am. And the C-SPAN interview with Brian Lamb is broadcast Sunday night at 8 pm and 11 pm. I just got back from Hartford, and need a nap. Later.

Anti-gay initiatives are not creating much excitement among the Christianist base of the GOP, according to this NYT piece. Why? Perhaps the more people see the non-event of marriage equality in Massachusetts and the benign impact of civil unions in several other states, they realize that the push against gay couples is less about saving civilization, and more about cynical partisan politics. Virginia’s proposed draconian ban on any rights for gay or straight couples outside of heterosexual-only civil marriage may be the test case. If it loses, the tide may have surely turned. In New York State, a democratic Rubicon has also been crossed.

Arlington, Virginia, 11 am.

Will these politicians please leave the web alone?

In Britain, the hip young new Conservative leader, David Cameron, isn’t merely in favor of a carbon tax and gays getting married, he’s communicating with the public on his own YouTube vlog. The only trouble is: it’s excruciatingly lame. Check it out:

Which led a naughty Labour Party politician to post a YouTube parody of populist Dave. We may have started a new wave of political warfare. Forget the ads. YouTube your message direct to the voters. I prefer the parody myself. Here it is:

So why not add some boobs to feminism? And sell some beefcake for wounded vets?

Am I wrong?

I’m glad I’m not related to Jake Ford.

From Madison’s Capital Times:

The main spokeswoman for a group supporting Wisconsin’s proposed constitutional ban on gay marriage and civil unions has little regard for the separation of church and state, which she calls a "fictitious wall."
"Speaking of it as if it has some kind of constitutional authority is completely bogus," said Julaine Appling, president of the Wisconsin Family Research Institute, at a debate Thursday at Edgewood High School.

First Amendment? What First Amendment?

Some Republicans think the president is out of touch with respect to the Congressional elections, and their potential aftermath. He is said to have no plan if things go awry. That’s not like this president, is it? Just ask the troops risking and losing their lives because he had no plan for the post-invasion in Iraq.