The Grand Alliance. On April 20, a broad assortment of self-styled progressive groups (i.e., the hard Left) will gather in Washington to protest the war on terrorism, and to demand that "the needs of people and the planet are given top priority." Among the participating organizations are the Communist Party USA, the International Socialist Organization, the Young Communist League, and Queers for Racial & Economic Justice. Isn't inclusion grand?
And She's Not Even a Lesbian. According to an AP story, a judge in upstate New York has "ordered a smoker to stop lighting up at home or in her car if she wants continued visitation rights with her 13-year-old son." The judge's 22-page decision said the mother's puffing was not in the boy's "best interests." The father's attorney said the boy "was ashamed that his mother was a smoker," while the mother's attorney claims the boy's father and paternal granparents are behind his smoking complaints.
Dysfunctional family dynamics aside, is this the Northern PC reflection of those Southern judges who won't allow visits by gay or lesbian parents who refuse to hide their sexual orientation from the child? Or, to put it another way, has control over visitation by noncustodial parents become the latest manifestation of the cultural war between Left authoritarians and Right authoritarians?
Nash re-gayed. Advocate.com does a nifty job of going through Sylvia Naser's A Beautiful Mind, the biography of John Forbes Nash Jr. on which the Oscar winning film was based, and showing just how gay he really was -- despite recent protestations by both Nash and Naser.