Ed Koch has an Op Ed in today’s NYTimes wherein he opines that through a series of gaps and ommissions in the NY State Constitution and in the NYS Public officers law, none of which confer upon the governor the right to appoint a Lt. Governor, that by stringing these gaps together, somehow that power materializes.

Jane Cantillon’s documentary The Other Side: A Queer History takes us to a unique Los Angeles place, The Other Side, the last remaining gay piano bar in the city. I first heard about the bar from a spiffy fellow who lived in my condo building years ago. Every Saturday night, he’d be dressed to the nines, with a pocket square that coordinated with his tie, a crisp white shirt under his blue blazer, tasseled oxblood loafers peeking out from his khakis. So one night in the elevator I asked where he was going, and he replied
Oh this piano bar in Silver Lake.

Ross Douthat claims we do not need affirmative action now, because the problems it addresses will be gone twenty years from now.

The House tri-committee bill and the Senate HELP bill would end the era of discrimination against the chronically ill.

The experts who claim to speak for financial markets are like mediums who claim to speak for the dead, except they have less credibility.

Every day Obama’s in the White House, the GOP’s rabid base gets scarier. And he’s only been in office 6 months.

“When I’m invited in to meet with the Speaker or the president,” he said, “I go into those meetings thinking that I don’t need to come around to their opinion — they need to come around.”

ete Stark is in a district with a D+22 PVI.  Why the hell is he palling around with lobbyists and NOT taking the pledge to vote against any bill that doesn’t have a strong public option?

Ask him.  DC:  202-225-5065, Fremont: 510-494-1388.

(h/t lefttown)

This is why the whole idea of “bipartisan” health care reform was always a stupid fantasy.

It’s funny how numbers have a way of changing as the need for different spin arises.