Ok, this is funny

Click and listen. Someone prank phone called Rove's office today. Not kidding. Read the rest of this post...

Jon Stewart is talking Mary Carey tonight on the Daily Show!

You remember her, my porn star buddy :-) The one who Bush and the GOP invited to dinner last week? Apparently Stewart did a piece on her tonight. I have it on TIVO, will check shortly. We could all use a laugh. Read the rest of this post...

Ken Mehlman: "What Karl Rove said was true"

These SOBs think they're on a roll. This is clearly a coordinated campaign, it was totally planned by the White House.

The head of the Republican Party just said that it's true that Democrats hate our troops, it's true that Democrats want to see our soldiers killed and are intentionally helping to get them killed, that Democrats didn't give a damn about September 11, that Democrats didn't think September 11 was a "savage" attack, that Democrats had no desire to strike back at Osama bin Laden after the attacks, and that Democrats actually like Osama bin Laden.

I really think Mehlman and Rove are overplaying their hand here, big time. The press has been atrocious for them on this all day. ABC News savaged Bush over this. If the Democrats on the Hill can rally themselves and show the spine on this that they showed today, Bush could be in serious trouble.

From AP:

Republican Party Chairman Ken Mehlman, speaking in Puerto Rico, said there was no need to apologize because "what Karl Rove said is true."

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Open thread

I will not be able to sleep after this day. Read the rest of this post...

Pentagon: Insurgency FIVE Times Larger Today Than 18 Months Ago

I watched ABC World News Tonight to see how they covered Karl Rove's remarks -- it was the fourth or fifth story after a drumbeat of bad news for Bush and was characterized as typical partisan attacks, rather than an offensive new low. (Better they'll be playing catch-up tomorrow.)

But in a related story on Iraq and the grilling of Rumsfeld, ABC News made an astute point. In trying to downplay the insurgency, the Pentagon estimated it was about 25,000 strong. Oops! In November, 2003, the Pentagon said the insurgency was about 5,000 strong. Some "last throes." Read the rest of this post...

We actually won one

That Today Show marriage thing that banned gay couples. They changed their policy, good for them. Read the rest of this post...

Doctors medical records of Gitmo prisoners being turned over to military and CIA to devise better interrogation techniques

Using doctors to aid torture. Lovely. And vaguely familiar.

Medical records compiled by doctors caring for prisoners at the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay are being tapped to design more effective interrogation techniques, says an explosive new report.

Doctors, nurses and medics caring for the approximately 600 prisoners at the U.S. naval base in Cuba are required to provide health information to military and CIA interrogators, according to the report in the respected New England Journal of Medicine.

"Since late 2003, psychiatrists and psychologists (at Guantanamo) have been part of a strategy that employs extreme stress, combined with behaviour-shaping rewards, to extract actionable intelligence from resistant captives," it states.

Such tactics are considered torture by many authorities, the authors note.

Medical personnel belonging to the U.S. military's Southern Command have also been told to volunteer to interrogators information they believe may be valuable, the report adds....

They suggest that interrogators at the camp, set up in 2001 to detain prisoners captured in Afghanistan and later Iraq, have had access to prisoners' medical records since early 2003.

That contradicts Pentagon statements that there is a separation between intelligence-gathering and patient care.

William Winkenwerder, U.S. assistant secretary of defence for health affairs, said in a memo made public in May that Guantanamo prisoners' medical records are considered private — as are American citizens'.

However, "this claim, our inquiry has determined, is sharply at odds with orders given to military medical personnel and with actual practice at Guantanamo," the authors write.

Using medical records to devise interrogation protocols crosses an ethical line, said Peter Singer, director of the University of Toronto's Joint Centre for Bioethics.

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White House intentionally had Rove call Democrats and 57% of Americans traitors

It's pretty clear now that this was a set up orchestrated by the White House in order to deflect attention away from the disaster that is the war in Iraq, and Bush's plumetting polls.

1. The White House released the TEXT of Rove's speech today. According to my sources who know about such things, that NEVER happens. This is prima facie evidence that the White House coordinated this thing from the beginning.

2. The RNC put out talking points today about how the Democrats "blamed America" for September 11. Those detailed talking points were clearly prepared well in advance of this noon today when this thing blew up. WE BLAMED AMERICA?

3. The RNC today reportedly released a new attack web ad going after Durbin for his comments about Guantanamo Bay. Isn't that convenient that something that took at least a few days to prepare was suddenly ready today at the same time that Karl Rove made his comments that anyone who recognizes that Bush has no idea what's going on Iraq is a traitor who loves Osama.

Folks, these bastards dropped a nuclear bomb on us today, and it was intentional. Senator Durbin learned the hard way that you can't reason with these people. Durbin apologized and what did it get him? He's in every one of their press releases and attack ads today.

President Bush thinks 57% of Americans are traitors who hate America, want to kill our military, and love Osama bin Laden. 57% of Americans are apparently happy, or at least not outraged, by the murder of nearly 3,000 people in NY, VA and PA.

The Democratic Party had better realize that these people declared war today in a big way. We do not let this issue go until Karl Rove resigns. There IS no other issue in town, until Karl Rove resigns.

If Ken Mehlman wants to have a public debate about who's a bigger man, then let's have it. And we'll start by talking about the President who just killed 1700 Americans in Iraq for a lie, and still hasn't bothered to attend a single funeral of one of the soldiers he killed. Read the rest of this post...

Peter Daou eviscerates Karl Rove

From the Daou Report:

I'm devoting much of today's report to Karl Rove's vile comments denigrating half of the American public. My office overlooks Ground Zero, and I'm looking at the gaping footprint as I write this. My wife and I were in New York that day, on our way to the WTC for a morning meeting. A chance phone call dragged on a few minutes too long and most likely saved our lives. I lost friends in the towers, and when I walk past the site, as I do almost every evening, the pain is as real as it was on September 11th, 2001.

I spent my youth in Beirut during the height of Lebanon's civil war, and I fought the Syrian presence in Lebanon long before the "Cedar Revolution." I watched young boys give their lives and mothers cradle their dying children in blood-soaked arms. I've seen more bloodshed, war, and violence, and shot more guns than most of the 101st Fighting Keyboardists combined. I wouldn't presume to question the strength or dignity of a stranger, and I pity those who blithely push the right=strong, left=weak rhetoric. It says far more about their inadequacies than it does about the target of their scorn. Today, Karl Rove took that rhetoric to a new, filthy low.

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Open Thread

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George Bush and Karl Rove: Most Americans Are Traitors

Rove's comments -- backed up 100% by George Bush -- didn't just attack Democrats. Rove and Bush attacked and demonized any American who dares to disagree with them or just thinks they're doing a lousy job. 57% of Americans think Bush is doing a terrible job in Iraq. George Bush says that makes them traitors. Half of all Americans who voted in the last election didn't vote for George Bush. He says that makes them traitors. Anyone who thinks torture is a bad idea? Traitor.

Look at the last few days. George Bush's numbers are collapsing. He couldn't get a "Fridays Off" law passed in Congress and the American people are increasingly worried about our troops in Iraq (maybe because they still aren't properly equipped?). So what does Bush do? First he attacks gays. Then he pushes the flag burning amendment. And today he attacks the majority of Americans who think he's doing a lousy job and calls them traitors.

It's very simple: George Bush has had almost four years to hunt down and kill Osama Bin Laden. He's failed miserably. Since George Bush is too weak to attack Bin Laden, he's attacking Americans. Read the rest of this post...

Why Does General Abizaid Hate our troops and want to put them in greater danger

General John Abizaid, the top US military officer in the Persian Gulf, must hate our troops. He said the Iraqi insurgency is still strong according to AP:

The top American commander in the Persian Gulf told Congress on Thursday that the Iraqi insurgency has not grown weaker over the past six months, despite a claim by Vice President Dick Cheney that it was in its "last throes."

When will we hear Karl Rove say: Has there ever been a more revealing moment this year? Let me just put this in fairly simple terms: Al Jazeera now broadcasts the words of General Abizaid to the Mideast, certainly putting our troops in greater danger. No more needs to be said about the motives of liberal generals.

Of course, the amazing thing is that the General told the truth at all. Probably a demotion in his future. Read the rest of this post...

Reporters take on the WH over Rove's insanity

It's very clear the White House is standing by Rove's comments. Great that the reporter at the bottom asked if this is about Bush's sinking polls. Bill Schneider just said something similar on CNN. Yikes. The media gets it. E&P; has the entire transcript

Q So will the President ask Karl Rove to apologize?

MR. McCLELLAN: Of course not, Jessica. This is simply talking about different philosophies and different approaches. And I think you have to look at it in that context. If people want to try to engage in personal attacks instead of defending their philosophy, that's their business. But it's important to point out the different approaches when it comes to winning the war on terrorism. And that's all he was doing....

Q What I'm talking about is word choice.

MR. McCLELLAN: Well, I think that they are just trying to engage in partisan attacks. Karl was simply talking about different philosophies, and we should be talking about what we stand for and how we want to move forward. We should be talking about what the different visions are and what the different ideas are, and that's what he was doing....

Q Can I ask it in this way, Scott? Then if this is an issue, is this an expression in some manner that the White House is concerned that with the popularity of the war diminishing, the anti-war liberalism is beginning to take hold so the President and Karl are confronting it directly?

MR. McCLELLAN: No, he was speaking to the New York Conservative Party, and he was talking about different philosophies -- the conservative philosophy and the liberal philosophy and how we're approaching different priorities for the American people. That's all it is.

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Whife House Chief of Staff Andy Card says a lot of people agree with Karl Rove

Son of a bitch. Andy Card just said this on CNN:

"Karl Rove's speech was a speech that I think reflected some of the rhetoric that a lot of people feel."

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Media keeps missing OTHER part of Karl Rove story

All the media is reporting on Rove's hideous comments about how Democrats don't "get" 9/11. But the part of the story they keep missing and not mentioning is what ELSE Rove said. And I quote:

"Has there ever been a more revealing moment this year?" Mr. Rove asked. "Let me just put this in fairly simple terms: Al Jazeera now broadcasts the words of Senator Durbin to the Mideast, certainly putting our troops in greater danger. No more needs to be said about the motives of liberals."

The MOTIVES of liberals. I.e., liberals aren't just recklessly getting our troops killed, it's apparently OUR MOTIVE to actually GET THEM KILLED. Read the rest of this post...

Senator McCarthy, Meet Karl Rove

More on the Rove scandal, from The Moderate Voice:

20th century McCarthyism seems to have been replaced by 21st century Rove-ism.

And Kos:

"Liberals saw what happened to us and said we must understand our enemies."

He's right. We want to understand.

We want to understand why Osama Bin Laden hasn't been captured? Why did the administration take its eyes off Al Qaida to invade Iraq? I mean, Al Qaida is the enemy Rove himself said we had to defeat. But we haven't.

Instead of defeating our enemies, we went to war against an impotent enemy -- Saddam. And yes, we want to understand. Like, why did they lie to go to war in Iraq? Why is that war still going, unabated? Why are we no closer to victory now, than we were in when Bush declared "mission accomplished"? Why don't our troops have proper ammo? Why aren't there enough boots on the ground in Iraq? Why are we still dying in Afghanistan?

He's right. I want to understand. I don't understand why the administration hasn't called for sacrifice. Why won't war supporters enlist? Why won't they encourage their circle of influence to enlist? Why won't they level with the American people, and give an honest assessment of what's going on in Iraq and Afghanistan?

I don't understand how our nation, always the good guys, is now perceived as the "bad guy" the world over. I don't understand how torture has become a commonplace occurance inside facilities that bear the stars and stripes.

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Fire Karl

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GOP House member says Dems have declared war on our troops

Time to tell them all to shut the fuck up. Do NOT back down from this one, gang. Read the rest of this post...

White House stands by Rove's comments about Democrats and 9/11

AP:

The White House defended Rove's remarks and accused Democrats of engaging in partisan attacks. Rove, said spokesman Scott McClellan, "was talking about the different philosophies and our different approaches when it comes to winning the war on terrorism."

That's it, game over. The White House has confirmed what we already knew, that Rove was talking about different philosophies and different approaches to the war on terror. The Democrat approach, according to the White House, is to not consider 9/11 a savage attack, and to be motivated by a desire to kill our own troops. McClellan just stood by the comments and basically explained that Rove was IN FACT talking about the differences between our two parties.

Fire him. Read the rest of this post...

Rove story hits the wires. Hillary and Schumer reportedly doing press conference at 1:15 EST

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Here's Karl Roves' White House phone number. Have fun

(202) 456-2369 Read the rest of this post...

Call your members of Congress and ask them if they agree with Karl Rove

Find your House member and your two Senators.

Call them, tell them that Karl Rove just said last night in New York City that liberals want our troops to die, and that liberals "don't get" September 11, we didn't think it was savage or any big deal. Then ask them if they agree with Karl Rove. Finally, if you agree, tell them to publicly demand that Karl Rove resign NOW. Read the rest of this post...

Rove also said that liberals want our troops to die!

Good fucking God. Fire this man, now.

Mr. Rove also said American armed forces overseas were in more jeopardy as a result of remarks last week by Senator Richard J. Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, who compared American mistreatment of detainees to the acts of "Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime - Pol Pot or others."

"Has there ever been a more revealing moment this year?" Mr. Rove asked. "Let me just put this in fairly simple terms: Al Jazeera now broadcasts the words of Senator Durbin to the Mideast, certainly putting our troops in greater danger. No more needs to be said about the motives of liberals."

Get it? Our "motives" are to "put our troops in danger." No other way to read that. Fire this asshole, now. Read the rest of this post...

Senator Reid says Karl Rove must apologize or resign

Screw apologies. We're in resignation territory now.

You can read the background on this issue here. And here's Reid's statement:

“I am deeply disturbed and disappointed that the Bush White House would continue to use the national tragedy of September 11th to try and divide the country. The lesson our country learned on that terrible morning is that we are strongest when we unite together, that America’s power is in its common spirit of democracy and freedom.

“Karl Rove should immediately and fully apologize for his remarks or he should resign. The lesson of September 11th is not different for conservatives, liberals or moderates. It is equally shared and was repeatedly demonstrated in the weeks and months following this tragedy as Americans of all backgrounds and their elected representatives rallied behind the victims and their families, united in our common determination to bring to justice those responsible for these terrible attacks.

“It is time to stop using September 11th as a political wedge issue. Dividing our country for political gain is an insult to all Americans and to the common memory we all carry with us from that day. When it comes to standing up to terrorists, there are no Republicans or Democrats, only Americans. The Administration should be focused on uniting Americans behind our troops and providing them a strategy for success in the war on terror and the conflict in Iraq. I hope the president will join me in repudiating these remarks and urge Mr. Rove to take appropriate action to right this terrible wrong.”

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White House says liberals don't care about September 11th

Karl Rove must resign, now.

This has got to be the most offensive thing yet to come from the White House.

Karl Rove, the White House chief political adviser, said last night in Manhattan only a few miles from Ground Zero that liberals didn't get 9/11. We didn't see the attacks as "savage." We didn't want to defeat our enemies. We simply wanted to give Osama bin Laden and the 19 hijackers "therapy."

Karl Rove can kiss my God damn ass.

I sat in my Washington, DC apartment on September 11, less than 2 miles from the White House, and watched the Pentagon burn outside my window. I sat in my apartment, alone, wondering if I was going to die, if my country was at war, and what the fuck was happening to the world. My liberal friends on the Hill had to evacuate while I was on the phone with them because there was a report that a plane was coming in. My friend liberal friend David was exposed to Anthrax. My liberal friend in California lost his friend in one of those airplanes. I interviewed the victims of September 11 and their families. I know the pain of September 11, and I don't need a God damn lecture from some White House operative about how I just didn't get it.

How fucking dare Karl Rove and the White House go to New York City, stand within miles of the World Trade Center remains, where nearly 3,000 Americans and foreigners of all political persuasions are forever buried, and say that liberals don't think September 11 was any big deal.

It's bad enough to have Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh and their ilk say that liberals hate America, and it's bad enough that Republicans pull this "liberals hate the military crap," but when the White House says that we don't "get" September 11, that we didn't think the murder of 3,000 innocents on that horrible day was "savage," that we simply wanted to give Osama bin Laden "therapy."

I have fucking had it with this White House. This is a story that we do NOT let die, people. Karl Rove's sorry ass needs to leave that White House or the Democrats in Congress shouldn't let ONE PIECE OF REPUBLICAN LEGISLATION ADVANCE, EVER AGAIN.

It's time to draw the line in the sand. Do our Democratic allies have the balls and self-respect to finally do it? Karl Rove must go.

"Liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers," Rove said. "Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 and the attacks and prepared for war.... Conservatives saw what happened to us on 9/11 and said we will defeat our enemies. Liberals saw what happened to us and said we must understand our enemies.... No more needs to be said about the motives of liberals," Rove said.

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For the record, the RNC does NOT condone lynching - phew

THIS is the kind of quote from the RNC that people pay big bucks for. Imagine them having to even say this. Why don't you guys ever jump on these issues?

Tara Wall, an RNC official responsible for minority outreach, accused Democrats of exploiting a non-issue for political gain.

"What I can say is that absolutely we absolutely don't condone lynching," she said.

Actually, this is quite an excellent article from WashingtonPost.com. Read on:

At least one longtime black Republican activist, who thinks all Republicans should have signed on, is not afraid to put his name on the record.

Harold Doley Jr., who became the first African American to own a seat on the New York Stock Exchange 32 years ago, fired off an angry e-mail to the RNC this week. He told me that Frist personally called him on Wednesday to assure him that support for the resolution was unanimous and that the party was committed to diversity.

"I would have liked it if all of these senators had sponsored the bill," said Doley, from New York, where he runs Doley Securities, one of the nation's oldest black-owned investment banks. "But that's not the case, and I understand it's not the case for various reasons."

Doley said he was already upset that after meeting with House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Majority Leader Tom DeLay a few years ago about increasing black personnel in key RNC and congressional staff positions, little has been done in that regard, even after he personally forwarded top Republican officials dozens of potential candidates at their requests.

Wow, and this:

Symbolic politics is the most powerful. Symbolic politics is about messaging. It's about code words. It's how a politician sends subtle cues about priorities and whose interests he or she is there to protect.

Symbolic politics is Ronald Reagan launching his presidential re-election campaign by extolling the virtues of states rights in Philadelphia, Miss., where Ku Klux Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen killed three civil rights workers in 1964.

Symbolic politics is the "white hands" ad that former senator Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) ran against African American opponent Harvey Gantt in 1990. Symbolic politics is George W. Bush going to speak at Bob Jones University in the 2000 presidential election campaign.

From those symbolic events, black people ask, if you can't respect my history how can you protect my interest in Washington?

Frist has said repeatedly that none of his colleagues asked him to schedule a roll call vote. But in news reports, aides to Landrieu and Allen contradicted him.

And now for the big question: Why does article appear to be only online and not in the "real" Washington Post, i.e., the print edition? A little symbolic lynching going on at the Wash Post as well? Just asking... Read the rest of this post...

So when Republicans talk about Gulags it's ok...

Uh huh.

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Okay, have we learned a lesson????

Lynn Sweet writes a column in today's The Hill that analyzes the role Mayor Daley's criticism had in the whole Durbin affair:

The mayor did not understand that his comments gave the right-wing Internet websites, radio and cable shows the opening they were looking for and undermined Durbin. It also did not help Durbin that the criticism came from one of the nation’s leading Democrats who happened to be the mayor of the largest city in Durbin’s state.

That any Democratic politician or pundit in 2005 does not understand how the right wing media machine operates is beyond me, but it happens over and over.

David Sirota wrote a column yesterday about how Democrats fall in to this trap all the time. The right-wingers love it when someone in the Democratic party establishment criticizes one of their own. They use those words against us all -- very, very effectively. Joe Biden and John Edwards attacking Howard Dean is a classic example.

Probably the reason the Dems. don't get it, is because there is nothing comparable on our side. Well, there is, mainly the liberal blogs, but they don't all want to work with us...and we can't do it alone. It requires an echo chamber. But, bloggers are probably too political. You know how too many Democrats and progressive groups in DC are -- they do policy, not politics.

Wrong. Until you figure out how to win at politics -- and how NOT to play in to the hands of the right wingers -- you're not doing any good policy.

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Gays Win Some And Lose...Actually, They Mostly Lose Some This Time

The Times of London reports that the Anglican Church is closer than ever to a genuine schism over the North American wings' decisions to ordain gay people as bishops and encourage others to lead devout, monogamous lives. (How unChristian of them!) The US and Canada churches are effectively expulsed until 2008, for what amounts to an Anglican timeout. Then they have to renounce their wicked ways of treating gays with dignity and respect or there will be hell to pay. Frankly, the only acceptable gay people to most of the church around the world are eunuchs and most of the people complaining still haven't recovered from seeing women treated as equal to men and capable of leading a flock.

The US Church, as made clear in its Tuesday presentation, has been developing its theology in favour of ordinations of homosexuals for 40 years and regards itself as a pioneer.

To the Africans, Asians and other fast-growing churches of the “Global South”, the issue of homosexual rights represents not liberation but the threat of another enslavement, to decadent Western liberalism.

In Spain, meanwhile, everyone protesting madly that the world would come to an end if gay marriages were given the same basic rights as other marriages were trumped by an "academic" who said homosexuality is "a disease."

Professor Polaino told the Senate's Justice Committee that homosexuality was caused by "a hostile, distant, alcoholic or violent father ... or an overprotective, cold and demanding mother". Homosexuals, he said, "did not play games as children ... may have suffered sexual abuse within the family ... are more likely to be promiscuous, take drugs and suffer from schizophrenia".

(Does going to the beach with Malibu Barbie count as playing games?) The silver lining there? Even the people on the right distanced themselves from this nutjob and said his comments were backwards and "from another age." It says something about the times when even people denouncing gays feel obligated not to completely denounce them. Or am I just being too Doris Day-ish about the whole thing? Read the rest of this post...

Gitmo t-shirts

As you may know, the right-wing nuts are selling "I love Gitmo" t-shirts to show their support for, I guess, torture. I had a bit of inspiration this morning, and created my own Gitmo and Torture t-shirts. More are coming. In case you don't know, the design is based on html code, the computer language used to write Web pages. The design basically says "end Gitmo" and "end torture" in Web-ese. Cool and geeky-cool, I hope, and hopefully sends a message as well.

You can check them out and/or buy them here.

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Mike Signorile's open letter to Andrew Sullivan

This is an open letter Michelangelo Signorile wrote to Andrew Sullivan in response to Andrew having written this column for the gay magazine, the Advocate. I'll do my own analysis in a second post, but first, here's Mike's column.

Signorile's latest:

Dear Andrew Sullivan,

I just read your latest column, the one in the Advocate in which you – former New Republic editor and current right-wing blogger -- extol the virtues of having HIV and the wonders of being positive. I must say: Very effective. It was enough to make any young gay man declare, “I gotta go get some of that hot poz seed!” Maybe we can get Fox to create a reality show in which we follow people around as they try to get themselves infected – you can be the host! -- and then watch their lives transformed for the better, while all of those nasty, negative people who warn gay men against getting HIV are shut out of the most chic nightclubs, as their steroid-free bodies shrivel-up. We can call the show, “Getting Pozzed!”

In the Advocate column, titled, "Still Here, So Sorry," you write: “I’m sorry…It’s been almost 12 years since I became infected with HIV, and I haven’t died yet. I haven’t even had the decency to get sick. I am a walking, talking advertisement for why HIV seems not such a big deal to the younger generation—and indeed, many in my own age bracket… HIV transformed my life, made me a better and braver writer, prompted me to write the first big book pushing marriage rights, got me to take better care of my health, improved my sex life, and deepened my spirituality. I’m sorry. I’ll try to do better… I’ve even enjoyed sex more since I became positive—more depth, more intimacy, more appreciation of life itself. Sorry. I look physically and mentally healthier than ever. Sorry again….”

You then opine, sarcastically, about how, “Young negative men need to see more of us keeling over in the streets, or they won’t be scared enough to avoid a disease that may, in the very distant future, kill them off,” telling positives to do their duty and, “Die, damn it.”

Now honestly, Andrew, what is the purpose of this column - beyond you masturbating on your testosterone-fueled self? There is nothing wrong with building self-esteem, for yourself, for others who are HIV positive, or for people who are challenged by any adversity in life. But this is an angry rant in which you’re speaking not to positives but to negatives, about whom you have enormous contempt for what seems like one simple reason: They are still negative.

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Most recent edition of "last throes" - 4 bombings, 23 dead on Wednesday

Thursday in Iraq, 2 more car bombings with 15 dead and 28 injured. Still waiting to hear some kind of retraction on that lie from Bush/Cheney but not expecting it. We have to remember that these guys never have made a mistake. Read the rest of this post...

"Gross extravagance" or "good value"?

I can't even believe such a discussion is happening in 2006 about a the British royal family. I'd say "waste of space" or perhaps "spongers of the nation" or even just plain old "embarrassment" but then again I'm not really into ruling families, whether they be in the UK, US or anywhere. Read the rest of this post...

Ken Mehlman [hearts] Rick Santorum

More, from the world's only known closet heterosexual. Read the rest of this post...