Teddy Partridge

This year's SF Pride parade led off with veterans of the Stonewall bar police raid, followed by youth LGBT organizers promoting "Stonewall 2.0" -- the new, activist, online organizing that has sprung up nationwide since Prop 8 passed. But Saturday night, early Sunday morning really, on the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, patrons of a brand-new gay bar in Fort Worth, Texas, were treated to a real life re-enactment of the police riot of forty years ago that rang all too true.

Mark Sanford worked hard to pass South Carolina's discriminatory constitutional amendment banning recognition of relationships that aren't between one man and one woman. So, can The State (newspaper) provide an accurate count, please, of the number of women in his marriage?

In an amazing display of Conventional Wisdom regurgitation about how politicians are lagging indicators in American political culture, the NYT's Adam Nagourney uses many words, some of them big, to define why DeeCee won't move as quickly as America to acknowledge LGBT rights.

The time has come for President Barack Obama to recognize the important accomplishments of Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut. He should appoint Joe Lieberman to, well, just about anything. Surely there are some ambassadorships still available to loyal "with us on everything but the war" Senators like Joe Lieberman.

Premier California state blog Calitics joined the Firedoglake whip of the House of Representatives today, exhorting their readers and members to contact California's congressional delegation to ask for a promise to vote against any health care package that excludes a public option.

Seventy-seven Members of Congress, writing to President Barack Obama, have asked that he direct the Defense Department to stop implementation and execution of orders under Don't-Ask-Don't-Tell while Congress begins efforts to actually repeal the law underlying the policy. The Palm Center agrees that the President has this power and can move unilaterally.

Bill Maher, skating ever closer to the commentary that got him exiled from our televisions after 9/11, tries to explain how constructive criticism of the President we elected, urging him to BE the President we elected, doesn't mean we're breaking up with him. And Bill also asks, where's the rational, non-money American political party that reflects the views of a majority of Americans, anyway?

In addition to violating his membership in Promise Keepers, Senator John Ensign (R-Hypocritical Adulterer) has resigned his position as head of the Senate Republican Conference, the number four job in the Senate GOP. But -- has he reported his employee's attempted extortion to the authorities?

Clarifying his remarks yesterday that many thought played "hot potato" on Don't-Ask-Don't-Tell repeal with the White House, Senate Majority Leader took an opportunity to clarify his remarks in a statement to ThinkProgress.

Maureen Dowd went to the eye doctor this week, shopped for makeup, and chatted with her MSNBC buddies about making HDTV promotional adverts. Norah O'Donnell had baby-spitup on her dress that no one but the HDTV camera could see. And David Shuster took off his pants.