fiction and musings from a gay black dude with delusions above his station
New York makes it legal. What a sweet victory. The thing that likely pushed it over the finished line was the “get out of jail free” card added to the bill that exempted religious institutes from having to conduct or condone same-sex unions in their hallowed halls against their will. And I’m totally fine with…
Young black kids are killing and dying in the streets. Gun fire echoes on quiet nights, on busy streets, in daylight — bodies fall to the ground. Killers stand over the fallen triumphantly and pump in more and more. Then they run away. But it’s not OK to snitch. Young black kids trying to get…
Don’t mean to get down on his ass, especially since he’s not doing too well at the moment, but the more that comes out about Mr. Weiner, the more I’m beginning to think that his resignation would not be a bad thing. Steve Kornacki at Salon.com wrote a story describing how Weiner broke into elected…
Audie Bock is not a household name. Only California based political nerds like myself even remember her. She was, for a brief moment, the highest ranking Green party politician in the country. Happenstance got her into that position. Ron Dellums’ retirement from the US Congress in 1998 started a daisy chain of special elections. Then-State…
