The "Horror" of Two Men Kissing on Television
I just saw this post over at Towleroad, and I have to say that I am not surprised. The faux controversy surrounding Adam Lambert's performance on the American Music Awards has reached a new level of stupidity. As the post at Towleroad noted, the CBS Early Show blurred the kiss between Lambert and a dude, and then went right into the lesbianic kisses among Madonna, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera:For me, this shows how the reaction to male homosexual images is essentially rooted in misogyny. I would love to know

Dana Perino Misspoke (?) in Her Haste to Pin a "Terrorist Attack" on Obama's Watch
I must have simply dismissed it as a misprint, or that clearly Dana Perino, the former Press Secretary under George W. Bush, misspoke. That she could say, in all seriousness, that we did not suffer a terrorist attack (two, if you count the anthrax scare that had all of us in DC freaked out for weeks, just after 9/11) during the Bush administration is bat shit crazy.Maybe in her haste to suggest that the events at Fort Hood constituted a terrorist attack, which I don't think it does, she misspoke. I will look forward to her retraction and correction for the record. I als

Black GLBT Youth Are Under Siege, and the Broader Black Community Seems Not to Care
There were a couple of posts that I read over at Rod 2.0 that truly hurt my heart. The first involved the rape and murder of a black openly gay teenager in Baltimore, apparently by a family friend. The second involved the beating of a black openly gay teenager in Houston, by schoolmates, while school authorities failed to heed the boy's pleas for help.In a letter to the editor of the "Baltimore S

A Clear Case of Straight Up Chicken: Joe Lieberman
I agree with others who say that Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman is afraid to go on Rachel Maddow's show. I am confident that he knows that she would have him for lunch regarding the claims he has made with regard to the health insurance reform effort meandering through the Senate as we speak. I am sure that she would want to discuss what he had to say about the Senate legislation on Sunday.Check out this dodge:Visit msnbc.com for

"Velvet Goldmine"-ish Circa 2009
I didn't check out Adam Lambert's American Music Awards performance until this morning, and for all of the talk going on about it, I immediately thought of "Velvet Goldmine." I also thought that this guy was paying tribute to the golden age of Glam Rock, which is a really interesting period in music history, and I am glad to see someone attempt to bring some of that back.But I find it funny that there is a bit of an uproar about Lambert's antics on stage (well after a normal bedtime for many children on a sc