The Gay D.A. Bonnie Dumanis, an openly gay Republican, has declared victory in San Diego County's hotly contested district attorney race, becoming the first openly gay person in the country to hold such an office, reports planetout.com. Although the D.A.'s race is officially nonpartisan and candidates don't run on party lines, both Dumanis and her opponent, the incumbent district attorney, identify themselves as Republicans. While planetout got the story right, the New York Times got it wrong, calling Dumanis a Democrat. Guess they"re still having a bit of trouble with the concept of gay Republicans at the Times.
View from South Park Miss Liberty's Film & TV
Update website, compiled by libertarian Jon Osborne, is
frequently worth checking out. Here's the description of tonight's
episode of South Park (a repeat from last season):
10:30PM~COM~South Park~Cripple Fight.
Big Gay Al, troop leader for the South Park kids, is ejected from the Scouts for being gay. It's clearly a bad decision, as Big Gay Al is a good and popular scout leader, and his apparently heterosexual replacement, a macho guy, turns out to be a pedophile. But when Big Gay Al is reinstated via a lawsuit, he declines to accept the reinstatement on the grounds that private organizations should be free to determine their own membership. (In a separate subplot, a new kid steals Timmy's spotlight, hence the title).