01/17/2006
Andrew Sullivan relaunches his blog at Time.com.
Colorado Dems to ask voters to legalize same-sex domestic partnerships.
It's a horse of a different color: Prada introduces zebra fur helmets for fall.
Reverend Ken Hutcherson, the pastor that caused Microsoft to drop its support for a gay rights bill in Washington last year (they later pulled a Ford and apologized, reiterating their "commitment" to gay causes) has called for a boycott of Microsoft and Hewlett Packard which he intends to issue on the wingnut radio show Focus on the Family.
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales arrives at Larry King to smear Al Gore and lie about the Clinton administration after Gore's impressive speech yesterday.
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Blame Clinton!
Posted by: brent | Jan 17, 2006 10:12:32 AM
There is nothing of redeeming value about those zebra skin helmets
1) simply ugly
2) provide no extra protection or real measurable warmth
tasteless and TACKY!!!!!!!!!
On the wingnut thing. Who are they goign to tell their sheep to buy computers from then? Apple the only real competition to microsoft has supported gay prtner benefits since the beggining..............
I guess the wingnuts are going to have to resort to abecuses and stone tablets for their computing needs
Posted by: jimmyboyo | Jan 17, 2006 10:28:58 AM
I love that the right wing thinks they can get along in the modern world without any Microsoft or HP products. The very idea of a boycott of something like that shows how hopelessly backward Focus on the Family is. Perhaps they should focus on their own families and leave ours alone.
Posted by: Brian | Jan 17, 2006 10:36:58 AM
Note to Wingnuts: The Rapture will NOT be available for download via your abacus.
Re: Gore's speech: NBC Nightly News last night gave a few precious minutes to the speech, including the part where Al said W is breaking the law. I nearly choked on my Pinot. I never expected to see and hear that on mainstream media (and the screen didn't go dark afterwards, either!).
Posted by: Liam | Jan 17, 2006 10:40:10 AM
Should they also boycott the polio vaccine? I read somewhere that Salk was kind of left-wing.
Posted by: Myackie | Jan 17, 2006 11:10:07 AM
Myackie, if only they would.
I'm hoping the Rapture comes any day now. Good riddance to extremely bad rubbish.
I can see it now, there's a major outbreak of bird flu and the fundies go all nuts and call it the Rapture. You heard it here first.
Oh, and to the traditional media (please don't call them mainstream, because they really aren't), thanks for repeating the same speech Bush has given over and over in full, but not giving us on the left any airtime. We know that your allegiance lies in the pocket of the right. You're marginalizing yourself. No wonder no one trusts the traditional media. It's all actors pretending to deliver news.
Posted by: Tread | Jan 17, 2006 11:29:59 AM
Boycott Microsoft and HP?! Haaahaahaa! Oh man, that's hilarious. Apple is already a huge supporter of gay rights. What are they going to use? Linux? Let's see them try to figure that out! LOL
Posted by: Ian | Jan 17, 2006 11:50:17 AM
Honestly, there's almost no such thing as a major technology or computer company that isn't supportive of gay rights. The industry was built on meritocracy, only concerning itself with innovation and discovery.
Posted by: RDiggy | Jan 17, 2006 12:55:05 PM
I caught those snippets of Al Gores' speech yesterday, and it dawned on me; who is he in the political environment today? Unless he's declaring that he's running in 2008 and getting a start NOW, he's nobody and nothing greater than a Washington pundit, which in my humble opinion, are a dime a dozen. Come on, Al, start the campaign!
The converse is the incessant coverage of The Idiots (Dubya) "town hall meeting" where, after 6 years in office, he still needs filtered and screened audiences (much like his upcoming State of the Union). I dare him to hold an OPEN forum.
As for the wing nuts (and I like that term); so long as there is 24 hour cable access, satellite radio and the Internet, this Prodigal Scum will remain in our faces. When will our society realize that the likes of "Focus on Family" are our American terrorists? They want to do to our country exactly what every hegomonic dictator ever did throughout history; impose their perverse moral beliefs on the larger group of people to the point of persecuting those who do not meet their ideals? Terrorists. That's what they are.
Posted by: Rad | Jan 17, 2006 1:22:19 PM
Sullivan? I've said it before, I'll say it again: "Shit floats." Gonzalez? Puta Por Bush.
As for Focus on the Family: they are easy to mock, but know that they have a $140 million a year budget—more than all national gay groups combined—and have been major players in every one of our defeats in the past decade, and have just begun. I urge everyone to go to Colorado Springs in July for the second demonstration by the group Soulforce at the door of this fascist TAX EXEMPT group. Unlike the namby-pamby approach by HRC et al., Soulforce is challenging them directly. For more information, go to http://www.soulforce.org/
While these PC boycotts are absurd, remember that Hutcherson apparently single-handedly got Microsoft to stay out of the vote for gay rights in Washington state, thus contributing to its defeat. Sure, they were slapped back to their senses afterwards, but.... And, the American Family Association, the cracker version of FOF, briefly had Ford's balls in their pocket. And, again, while Ford reclaimed them, there are still plenty of companies of various sizes that don't have LGBT benefits, protections, or advertise in gay media.
Posted by: Leland | Jan 17, 2006 1:34:36 PM
Oh, Al. You were the only hope in a landscape otherwise filled by the hound-dog blandness of Kerry. Oh, Al. Too late, now, to be the man we needed you to be back then, damn it.
Posted by: Jacko | Jan 17, 2006 4:46:00 PM
Is Andrew Sullivan still gay? Just wondering since we're in a new year now.
Anyway, a boycott of Microsoft and Hewlett Packard? LOL
Posted by: Chad Hanging | Jan 18, 2006 12:11:50 AM
How can you not admire ALGORE? After all, he invented the Internet, and engineered the Clinton years in the White House.
I find him very impressive.
Posted by: Jay Croce | Jan 18, 2006 1:05:36 AM
I hope the wingnuts realize that boycotts have never actually worked. Besides, let them boycott if they want. They won't have any computers or software and will become disconnected from our society and consequently marginalized. I hope Dr. Dobson demands an end to the use of all Microsoft and HP related products. Apple and Apache Server Technology too for that matter. They'll be forced to take down their highly offensive website immediately. That I could handle.
Posted by: Robert In WeHo | Jan 18, 2006 1:50:49 AM
If boycotts don't work why do we use them?
Posted by: Chad Hanging | Jan 19, 2006 12:25:16 AM