“A recent report from the RFK Center for Human Rights and the Institute for Southern Studies estimated that the Bush administration was overstating federal funding for the Gulf Coast rebuilding campaign by as much as 300%, with about $35 billion of an estimated $114 billion actually spent. White House officials said Wednesday that the amount [...]

Some thoughts on fetish and household cleaning products…

It is time to clean the cock. Like a good femme housewife, I add this to my list of chores while my husband is at work. Buy milk, mop the floors, wash the linens, boil the dildo. “Gotta have the right tools for the right [...]

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While watching Bill Mahr the other night that I understood that the situation in Iraq was far more catastrophic than I had imagined due to the numerous subgroups within groups that despise each other and see each other as devil’s spawn. Mahr interviewed Damien Cane, a brave New York Times reporter in Bagdad, via [...]

I recently met a fascinating installation, performance, video artist named Michelle Handelman. Our meeting is in the following Vlog below. I love these visits with artists because I think the visual arts are probably the least understood of all the arts because it’s so hard to access both physically and intellectually.

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The Times today (8/27/07) discusses the crisis of a shortage of qualified teachers in America’s public schools. This crisis is being fueled by the huge rates of retirement as well as by the amount of new teachers who drop out of the system when they realize the realities of teaching in failing school [...]

Alison Bechdel is to queer comics what Charles M. Schulz is to the mainstream funny pages. I say this because for almost 25 years, she has written and drawn the popular comic strip “Dykes to Watch Out For,” a chronicle of lesbian feminists that began during a time when being ‘out’ was a much [...]

“It’s not up to the politicians in Washington, D.C., to say whether he will remain in his position,”—President Bush said of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki of Iraq.
This recent statement of sheer arrogance reflects the type of thinking that brought the United States to the precarious place it is at, in the eyes of many [...]

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Perhaps it is because I am currently reading Sam Harris’s book, “The End of Faith” that I’ve become even more skeptical about people using biblical texts as pretext for moral behavior whether it is the Old or New Testament, the Koran or any other religious texts with violent messages strewn throughout its pages.

Back in the Summer of 2004 I had the privilege of spending time with Parisa Parnian. She would visit me at our craft booth at the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival and we’d shoot the breeze. I asked her if she would “style” a fashion shoot for us. What transpired in the following months [...]

Israeli human rights activists are infuriated by the government’s recent policy of immediate deportment of illegal migrants back to Egypt regardless of whether they are refugees from Darfur. I understand that illegal immigration from Egypt into Israel is a problem and the government simply can not absorb all illegals, but I really feel that it [...]

There are few clear answers about what exactly was released into the air Saturday when the Deutsche Bank Tower near ground zero went ablaze, killing two firemen and evoking the feeling of September 11th apocalyptic horror for many downtown New Yorkers. The New York Times says the building was filled with “toxic debris, including asbestos, [...]

It’s Sunday morning and I’m nursing a hangover, it was a late night at the Catty Shack.
I did meet some nice smart ladies who, when I informed them that I ‘work’ in lesbian media, guessed at first that I worked at GO, then Curve, then correctly guessed “Velvet…whatever!” The correct answer!
Since their answer was so [...]

Elizabeth Murray has been in the papers and the blogosphere since Monday morning when news of her death this past Sunday broke.
I wrote a more detailed blog about Murray for OurChart. But, The most comprehensive and I might add moving homage was written by Roberta Smith in the Times on Monday.

Call me biased but I thought Hilary Clinton came off as convincing and capable last night during LOGO channels Democratic win-the-queer-vote forum. Kucinich down right won my heart but, probably not my vote (though I haven’t committed yet) because we need someone whose gonna win it, damn it. Obama, sorry I know he’s supposed [...]

I’m up at 4 am, bleary and exhausted. I open the blinds and Las Vegas is pulsing like an electric eel. Not so different from New York, and yet so different. From my window I can see where the city ends and the desert begins. Booze and 24-hour buffets in the middle of a scorching [...]