Speaking Truth To PowerSomeone has to do it(Untitled)- July 21, 2004 Sorry for silence this week; this is one of the foibles of my new format that if time is crunched or if I'm not feeling like getting down to doing some research, I won't write much. C'est la vie. Back at it next week.http://blogs.salon.com/0003752/2004/07/21.html#a85 (Untitled)- July 16, 2004 Gay Marriage: Postmortem Apologies for not finishing this up yesterday; the weekend here in Dubai is Thursday and Friday so it's harder to stay in a writing routine those days. Additionally, the completion of the Senate vote, rejecting the gay marriage amendment (technically, it was a vote to stop the filibuster, but the effect and the votes were the same) without it even receiving a bare majority, sort of deflated my desire to really put the work in on this. So I'll be brief....http://blogs.salon.com/0003752/2004/07/16.html#a84 (Untitled)- July 14, 2004 The "Debate" On Gay Marriage, Part Two The first part of this discussion can be found here. Fundamentally, the core question about gay marriage is not about marriage--it's about gays. Defenders of a Constitutional Amendment, including the President, often try to make a distinction between tolerance of gay "behavior" and acceptance of gay marriage. "Do what you want," this logic goes, "but only outside of marriage." Thankfully, there are those who go out of their way to make it perfectly...http://blogs.salon.com/0003752/2004/07/14.html#a83 (Untitled)- July 13, 2004 The "Debate" On Gay Marriage, Part One Senate Republicans are apparently in the midst of an aggressive push to figure out how they can properly word the proposed Constitutional Amendment to forbid gay marriage. The hardest of the hardliners--Rick Santorum, et. al.--want to forbid civil unions, too. That's the focus of the discussion, while a few Democrats yell from the sidelines that they think the decision should be left up to the States. Politics is a restrictive...http://blogs.salon.com/0003752/2004/07/13.html#a82 (Untitled)- July 11, 2004 This blog didn't last too terribly long in its incarnation as "Enough", despite the catchy title. I think that the real problem is that it was ill-conceived from the get-go. I pictured it following the same format as Atrios and Daily Kos and these other political blogs that more or less update on news every day as it happened. But the problem with that is twofold: first, it creates pressure to update frequently--pressure I don't need. Second, it makes creativity difficult. This latter...http://blogs.salon.com/0003752/2004/07/11.html#a81 |