A most powerful and moving response to “Hell NO you can’t!”
Yes, We Can
March 27, 2010
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Add Another World Renowned Name To The List “Gay American”
March 21, 2010
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The website “For Good Reason” hosts a discussion with James Randi, a renowned skeptic and rational thinker, where Mr. Randi comes out as gay. Now 81, Mr. Randi discusses his reasons for remaining in the closet until now, his concerns about how it may affect his work, and how his detractors may use this announcement against him. Check it out at “For Good Reason”.
Mr. Randi’s own site, the James Randi Educational Foundation has the esteemed writer/speaker/skeptic’s own words here.
Cross posted at QueerVisalia.com, QueerFresno,Tulare County Atheists, and The Visalia Times Delta.
The Love That Dare Not Speak It’s Name
February 7, 2010
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Proposition 22. Proposition 8. Ballot initiatives in Maine. Almost anywhere there is legal recognition for our relationships, some right-wing religious nutjob is trying to destroy them. In some places, they’re winning, at least for the moment.
But stop and think for a moment. This is what they are fighting against:
Love.
Lord Alfred Douglas, in 1894, called it “The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name”. Things have changed some since then, but there are still people out there that want to shove it back into silence. Force it back into the dark corners and hidden places, remove all mention of it from public discourse. For them, only swift and severe condemnation is acceptable. Any other conversation about the subject is immediately labeled “promoting homosexuality”.
It has bothered me for some time why this is so. Why the rabid response to the issue any time it comes up? I think I’ve figured it out…
Saturday Night in Fresno
January 31, 2010
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A busy night in Fresno last Saturday. I started my evening off at Sequoia Brewery, in the Tower, listening to the folk music of Rob Cox. Some good stuff, you should listen if you get the chance. His stuff is available at his web site, RobCoxMusic.com. I only got to listen to 30 minutes worth, as the
An alternate reality Fox?
January 27, 2010
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Don Imus has surprised me! Someone on Fox that DOESN’T parrot the right wing line! There may be hope for them yet!
How I spent my weekend
December 14, 2009
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Well, an interesting weekend, no doubt. Friday began my three days off pretty slowly. In fact, I really don’t recall exactly what I did, other than be lazy and play on the computer. Oh, wait, it’s coming back to me, now that I think about it a bit. I watched the news, then switched over to ScyFy (damn, I hate that new name) to catch Stargate Universe, and Sanctuary. Unfortunately, SG Universe skipped a week, so it was a repeat of last week’s Sanctuary, then the new episode. Fun seeing Michael Shanks back on the screen, cute crack about Amanda Tapping’s hair. More dinking around online, and some DVDs. Watched Life Free or Die Hard. Again. Not bad.
Saturday was much more interesting. It started off with a bang. Or, more correctly, a crash. I was sitting in my computer room/radio shack when I heard something nearby make a loud crashing noise. I looked out back, thinking the fence the next door neighbor had replaced after it fell in October might have died again, but it seemed OK. I checked out front, but couldn’t find anything, so I wrote it off to some debris settling noisily next door, where they are renovating the house. By this time, Ted had messaged me, inviting my up to Fresno for dinner, then clubbing. Never one to pass on a visit with Ted, I headed up that way. Dinner at Ted and Mychal’s, some tv, and then off to the North Tower Circle in Fresno. They had go-go boys! The picture is not of the guys dancing that night, but it gives you an idea. Two guys, one hispanic, one asian, both very hot. Even a go-go girl, for the ladies. Any straight guy would have thought she was super hot, even I appreciated the scenery! Met some interesting people there, they had quite the crowd. We stayed till closing, then back to Ted’s. It was about 2:30 when we arrived, so I expected to say goodnight and head on home, but for some reason Ted turned on the DVR, and we started watching a Criminal Minds program about FBI profilers. About half-way through, I noticed Ted, Mychal, and the puppies Eva and Jasmine were one big pile, all sound asleep on the couch! Well, they had gotten me wrapped up in the program, so I just sat there watching it until it was done. Then I woke them all up to say good bye, at almost 4am! That’s waaaay past all of their bedtimes! Home again, and bed. Before I went to sleep, though, my cousin, as he was getting up, asked me if I saw where the tree had fallen in the back yard. Sooo…. THAT’s what the crash was! I told him I’d look at it later, as I was going to bed.
Sunday, I got up early, dragged myself out of bed, actually, to get to Tulare by 2pm for a meeting of the Tulare County Atheists. Had a nice chat with a few people. I was expecting more of a turnout, since I had posted a blog on the Visalia Times Delta’s online site, and posted a notice on the TCA’s wordpress blog site. Back home, I pulled the tree off of the fence and cut some limbs off. I took a nap, which I seldom do, and then dinner. The rest of the evening was spent watching Oprah’s Whitehouse special, the news, then a Star Trek movie DVD and doing laundry. Now I’m done, and going to bed!
All in all, not a bad weekend at Casa De Jimbo.
Adam Lambert
December 6, 2009
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Adam has a great voice, and I suspect we’ll be hearing a lot more of him! (and he’s cute, too!)
Edit Jan 4, 2010: The video provider added a commercial to the beginning of the video… it wasn’t there when I first posted it!
Catholic Bishop orders communion withheld
November 22, 2009
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I’ve posted a blog at TulareCountyAtheists.com about Rhode Island’s Bishop Thomas Tobin and his recent order to deny communion to Representative Patrick Kennedy. Kennedy recently voted against the Stupak amendment to the health care bill currently before Congress, and the Bishop decided that this meant Kennedy was supporting abortion in violation of the Church’s orders to Catholic politicians. Read my blog here.




Don’t Hide. Ask. Tell. Be You.
April 10, 2010
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That danger, however, only exists if he is honest. If he lies, either by commission (saying he is heterosexual) or omission (hiding the truth from others who trust him with their lives), then he is perfectly acceptable as a member of the world’s most powerful military machine. If he is honest about himself, then morale is immediately destroyed, good order and discipline disappear, and his unit is no longer a cohesive whole. This, at least according to some, is why homosexuals must not be allowed to serve their country in the military.
Lt. Dan Choi is a perfect example of why that policy should be changed.
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