Time for Balrog to return to Middle Earth.

I’ve enjoyed the company over the last year; thanks to all who are making a difference in this country.

We will miss you. I hope you aren’t leaving for any sad reasons or misunderstandings, if so please talk with us? You are an important part of our community.

Please come back when you can.

hey kirk! better day at the office today?

Hi punaise!

Thanks for asking … ;) and today was good.

Just about every day at the clinic is good. I get paid to help people. How cool is that? :)

Some days my LGBT patients’ life stories make me really angry – to an unhealthy extent. No such stories today.

My splashes in the Lake will be happy (and civil) ones.

Thanks for the Mulligan.

Nothing excuses my failure to discern friend from foe (and I had read Glenn’s Christianist piece, so I just blew the pattern recognition. MY bad.).

The only reason I’d like to describe the following is to Firepups with a vignette from the frontlines of the Right’s war on families – otherwise known as the Culture War.

Before moving to San Francisco three years ago, I was ignorant of the City’s role as a national refuge for teens thrown out of their homes for their biology – for being queer.

I remember media before Hate radio, Hate preachers, and Hate TV.

The worst depiction of gay people would be arch jokes about someone like Paul Lynde.

How scared could we be of a Hollywood Square?

What could he do to us – erase our “X” and “O”?

Lots of my disowned patients grew up learning they were queer and watching their parents learning to hate queer people.

Their parents were watching and listening to the Reich Wing’s Hate Media – wholly owned subsidiaries of the Mighty Wurlitzer.

So the cynical preachers and pundits doing meth with rentboys and underage Dominicans don’t believe the LGBT-bashing rhetoric, but the audience does.

And they toss out their kids, who come to SF as soon as they can and show up in clinic as adults.

Internally displaced refugees of the “Culture War” – a shiny object devised to divert attention from the global megacorps’ takeover of our media, government, and resources.

So my patients – and their credulous parents and riven families – were just collateral damage in the pillage of America’s democracy and wealth.

Some clinic days, the stories are too much.

(but I’ll defer my Lake dips on those days ’til I’m out of the stories’ grip.)

TeddySanFran @
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Hayduke @
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Oklahoma kiddo @ 85

Gingrich is once again a power in the Republican Party to be reckoned with.

He doesn’t even hold an office! Dude is just a windbag. He has no chance of winning the nomination, he’s just looking to hear himself talk and up his fees after a Presidential bid.

He’s setting himself up as BigTime’s replacement, if needed. Junja won’t feel threatened, and Newtie knows the Hill. Could work.

W, after the inevitable Gingrich betrayal: “Et tu, Newtus?”

hee-hee

Hayduke @
97

Oklahoma kiddo @ 85

Gingrich is once again a power in the Republican Party to be reckoned with.

He doesn’t even hold an office! Dude is just a windbag. He has no chance of winning the nomination, he’s just looking to hear himself talk and up his fees after a Presidential bid.

He’s setting himself up as BigTime’s replacement, if needed. Junja won’t feel threatened, and Newtie knows the Hill. Could work.

W, after the inevitable Gingrich betrayal: “Et tu, Newtus?”

Oklahoma kiddo @ 85

Gingrich is once again a power in the Republican Party to be reckoned with.

He doesn’t even hold an office! Dude is just a windbag. He has no chance of winning the nomination, he’s just looking to hear himself talk and up his fees after a Presidential bid.

He’s setting himself up as BigTime’s replacement, if needed. Junja won’t feel threatened, and Newtie knows the Hill. Could work.

Most recent low: $2.196 on November 7, 2006

heh.

positively brobdingnagian