Gore Vidal’s State of the Union: “This is an unpatriotic government. This is a government that deals openly in illegalities, whether it is attacking a country which has done us no harm, two countries — Iraq and Afghanistan — because we now believe, not in declaring war through Congress as the Constitution requires, but through the President. ‘Well, I think there are some terrorists over there, and I think we got to bomb them, huh? We’ll bomb them.’ Now, we’ve had idiots as presidents before. He’s not unique. But he’s certainly the most active idiot that we have ever had.”
The last day of Hallam Tennyson. At the end of December, I posted about the brutal murder of the gay great grandson of one of England’s most lauded poets, Alfred Lord Tennyson. One suspect was questioned and released without charges. Police are trying to piece together events leading up to his murder and have found two images of Tennyson in North London tube stations on the day of his death. There is no word on how the images might affect the investigation into his death, but authorities are saying they just want to put together as many pieces as possible.
In October I wrote about the brutal killing of barman Jody Dobrowski on London’s Clapham Common. The two men whom police held in connection with Jody’s killing yesterday gave “not guilty” pleas at the Old Bailey today. Dobrowski’s body had been beaten so badly that it was beyond recognition and had to be identified through fingerprints.
Anderson Cooper as leather daddy? See it and believe.
Photographer Lewis Payton will be appearing on tonight’s On Q Live for those of you who get the network.
Jeffrey Graham talks to Erasure’s Andy Bell.