Robert Gant, born Robert González, is a fellow Florida boy. He was born 13 July 1968 in Tampa. If you must be gay in Florida, Tampa’s not too bad a place for it, but Robert wisely got the hell out of Florida after high school. He’s best known for playing Ben Bruckner on the American [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Wednesday heat: Robert Gant.
Posted in Wednesday Heat, tagged hot men, Robert Gant on 27 August 2008 | 1 Comment »
“Keep going.”
Posted in Gay Rights, Politics, tagged Harriet Tubman on 26 August 2008 | 2 Comments »
Hillary Clinton quoted one of my heroes tonight: Harriet Tubman. The words she quoted were these:
“If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If they’re shouting after you, keep going. Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.”
Good advice. Good [...]
Thanks, Annie.
Posted in Personal, tagged Anna Kleist on 26 August 2008 | 1 Comment »
Last week I put a difficult client on the “do not serve” list — but she didn’t know she was on the do not serve list. So today she came in, and my boss didn’t want to talk to her; she was going to have me talk to her. (The lady is very combative.) However, [...]
Family album – Anna Kleist.
Posted in Family Album, tagged fishing, Kleist on 26 August 2008 | 3 Comments »
This is one of my favorite photos of my great-grandmother, Anna Kleist (1883-1974). Anna and her husband, Bill, loved camping and fishing. I love this photo because it catches her in a contemplative moment. It’s just her and the river.
This photo was taken in the early 1920s, when Anna was about forty years old. My [...]
The elephant in the room.
Posted in Civil Rights, Politics, tagged Racism on 26 August 2008 | 4 Comments »
We don’t like to talk about race in America — not anymore, not publicly. We like to think we’re past that. Unfortunately, we all know we’re not.
I have many misgivings and reservations about Barack Obama. There are a lot of reasons I think he might not be the president I’d hope to have in the [...]
Hateful, lying scumbags for Jesus.
Posted in Gay Rights, Politics, Religion, tagged California, Catholic, Christina Hirst, Evangelical, gay marriage, High Priest, Jennifer Kerns, Justin Hirst, LDS Church, Mormon, Proposition 8, same-sex marriage on 25 August 2008 | 18 Comments »
Jennifer Kerns, spokeswoman for the Yes on 8 campaign, estimates that 15,000 of her fellow lying scumbags — mostly Catholics, Evangelicals, and Mormons — canvassed voters in California this past weekend, spreading lies and disinformation in the name of Jesus and The Family. These good Christians believe Jesus hates queers as much as they do, [...]
Confederate widow dies.
Posted in Civil War, tagged Alberta Martin, Confederate widow, Maudie Hopkins, William Cantrell on 24 August 2008 | 2 Comments »
When Alberta Martin died in 2004, it was widely reported that she had been the last surviving Confederate widow. It wasn’t true. The very day of Alberta Martin’s funeral, Martha Boltz of the United Daughters of the Confederacy published a story about a Confederate widow who still survived: Maudie Celia Hopkins of Lexa, Arkansas. Mrs. [...]
Sunday sermon.
Posted in Sunday Sermon, tagged Christian right, homophobia, Margaret Cho, republicans on 24 August 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Margaret Cho
Sunday funnies
Posted in Sunday Funnies, tagged Batman and Robin, Calvin & Hobbes, Cyanide and Happiness, Ernestine, James Gregory, Juston McKinney, Lily Tomlin, Urban rodeo on 24 August 2008 | 2 Comments »
Reza Aslan vs. Sam Harris
Posted in Islam, Religion, tagged Sam Harris, Reza Aslan, BookTV, Muslim extremism, Islam, Christianity, Bible, Quran, scripture, atheism, faith and reason, reason on 24 August 2008 | 2 Comments »
The other day, I came across a discussion between Reza Aslan and Sam Harris. The debate took place on 25 January 2007 at the Los Angeles Public Library, and was broadcast on C-Span2’s BookTV.
I’ve enjoyed books by both men. I’ve often recommended Aslan’s No God But God as the best book I’ve read about Islam, [...]
