Category: The Dish

If Obama doesn’t wipe the board Tuesday, she wins. Good grief.

Well, kinda:

Now, one of Clinton’s laws of politics is this. If one candidate is trying to scare you and the other one is try get you to think, if one candidate is appealing to your fears and the other one is appealing to your hopes, you better vote for the person who wants you to think and hope.

A biphobic lesbian tries to explain the root of her prejudice against bisexual women and figure out how to deal with it:

Being a sociologist I know that smaller communities tend to be more policing of the boundaries of a collective sense of identity, and the performances thereof. Further, oppressed minorities tend to be defensive of anything perceived as ‘other’ inside their group as someone that could be working to undermine efforts, that doesn’t really share the same oppressions.

And a lot of lesbians take this position. They argue that if bisexuals want to be part of the lesbian community, they need to take the community as lesbian, and that a woman that loves men or a man needs to deal with such. They argue that there is privilege in being partnered in a heterosexual relationship, however, queer the woman therein may be, and that such privilege is antithetical to the community. […]

[While reading comments on blog post about bisexuality] I had to stop myself from posting something along the lines of "If you want bisexual representation, get your own fucking show, and leave us the fuck alone to have our one tiny niche. You find supposedly queer women fucking men all the time on network TV, what else do you want, to colonise our space too?!". It was this visceral reaction that scared the crap out of me. […]

…aside from speaking up against [bigoted] speech, and validating the queer/gay identities of bisexual women, what else can I do? I have this prejudice in me that I detest, and I need to work on it to get rid of it.

An endorsement that nearly wasn’t.

Here’s a taste of the rhetoric from a man who just endorsed McCain in public and embraced him on stage:

"It was the disobedience and rebellion of the Jews, God’s chosen people, to their covenantal responsibility to serve only the one true God, Jehovah, that gave rise to the opposition and persecution that they experienced beginning in Canaan and continuing to this very day."

Hagee is also a virulent anti-gay and anti-Catholic bigot. McCain is "very proud to have Pastor John Hagee’s support." Is Kirchick awake? 

Say what you like about the Windsors. They’re not Romneys.

Eugene Volokh has some cool optical illusions.

Answer here.

Obama or Reagan?

"Everywhere we have met thousands of Democrats, independents and Republicans from all economic conditions and walks of life bound together in that community of shared values of family, work, neighborhood, peace and freedom. They are concerned, yes, but they are not frightened. They are disturbed but not dismayed. They are the kind of men and women Tom Paine had in mind when he wrote – during the darkest days of the American Revolution — ‘We have it in our power to begin the world over again.’"

I also recall from my misty memory another Reagan line: "We are the change."

Chait – who actually does have a kid at 3 am – thought it was ridiculous.