‘Standing with Barack Obama’ on LGBT Issues: Really?

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Monday May 28, 2012 · 7:16 PM PDT

2012/05/28 · 19:16

Really?

I’m seeing the ads everywhere, for barackobama.com. My Facebook page is positively infested with them. And every time I see one, my blood pressure ratchets up another notch.

I’m pleased that Obama has spoken out in support of marriage equality, really I am. But let’s get something straight.

Barack Obama is standing with me. Not the other way around.

Mehitabel9 for Team DFH

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Friday March 18, 2011 · 5:00 PM PDT

2011/03/18 · 17:00

Welcome to the Team DFH Friday Night Music Cabal. Because Team DFH operates more or less like a herd of cats, this diary series doesn’t actually have a formal name (last time it was “Friday Night Feel Good Music", but somehow that just doesn’t work with tonight’s offering) but we’re here on Friday Nights to let our hair down, maybe light up a fattie, and get some groovy on.

Mehitabel9

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Friday December 24, 2010 · 8:09 PM PST

2010/12/24 · 20:09

I write this tonight as my mother is sleeping fitfully in her room, a few steps down the hall. I'll just be dozing tonight as I'll have to be getting up to check on her every few hours. I brought her home from the hospital about four hours ago. As I start this essay, I have no idea where it's going to end up. I just have things on my mind and I want to get them out of my head and onto this screen; a nice little Christmas Eve exorcism, if you will. The past few days have been, for me, like a trip through the looking glass into a place that I simply cannot wrap my head around; an example -- just one example, I assume of many thousands or even millions of examples -- of just how badly broken the health care system is in this country. And this is probably one of the more mild examples, because at least in this one, nobody died...

Every word you will read here is true. There are no fabrications. There aren't even any exaggerations. There don't need to be.

Mehitabel9

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Wednesday December 22, 2010 · 9:37 AM PST

2010/12/22 · 09:37

This is a re-post of a diary I put up around this time last year.

I am a snob. A really specific kind of snob.

I have rather highbrow taste in Christmas music -- I like it old and I like it a capella. I listen to Palestrina, Tomas Luis de Victoria, Thomas Tallis, Josquin Desprez, Gregorian chant. Facebook friends post YouTube videos of Madonna singing "Santa Baby" and Elvis singing "Blue Christmas" - or even Bing Crosby or Perry Como, thinking, in their adorable little misinformed way that Bing and Perry Christmas recordings are "classics" -- and I cringe and crank up my iTunes, which features easy-to-dance-to tunes like the ones over the fold.

Mehitabel9

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Tuesday December 21, 2010 · 1:43 PM PST

2010/12/21 · 13:43

I'm dusting off my annual Solstice diary and reposting it today. It's not long, but it's heartfelt.

Although I am not there now, for a lot of years I lived in the Pacific Northwest.

Of all of the meanings that have been assigned to the winter holidays -- be they Christian, Jewish, cultural, pagan, secular, whatever -- what has come to be, for me, the most meaningful aspect of this season is the solstice.

Mehitabel9

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Monday December 13, 2010 · 7:43 AM PST

2010/12/13 · 07:43

Are you?

Or is DK once again just going to be an echo chamber of people wringing their hands over this godforsaken, stupid, corrupt tax deal and moaning about how awful it all is?

Personally, I vote for the former.

Mehitabel9

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Friday December 10, 2010 · 7:48 AM PST

2010/12/10 · 07:48

He made a Facebook post about ten minutes ago:

You can call what I am doing today whatever you want, you it call it a filibuster, you can call it a very long speech. I'm not here to set any great records or to make a spectacle. I am simply here today to take as long as I can to explain to the American people the fact that we have got to do a lot better than this agreement provides.
(from the Senate floor)

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Liveblog #7 (final one!)

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Thank You, Wendell Potter

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Thursday November 25, 2010 · 10:01 AM PST

2010/11/25 · 10:01

Hi, Wendell. I don't know if you'll read this, but I feel like writing it today, so follow me over the flip.

Mehitabel9

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Tuesday November 23, 2010 · 8:47 AM PST

2010/11/23 · 08:47

Going out in today's mail.

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How I'm Observing 9/11 - Please Join Me

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Saturday September 11, 2010 · 7:23 AM PDT

2010/09/11 · 07:23

September 11, 2001 was a big day in my life. From 3,000 miles away, I watched the planes crash and the towers collapse. I went into shock, I think -- I can remember that, despite it being a picture-perfect, sunny day in Seattle, I spent the day shivering because I was so cold. I went to work sometime in the late morning, because I simply could not think of anything else to do. Nothing was done there that day -- my co-workers and I were all in a complete fog. One of my clear memories of the day, and I don't have many, is sitting with my boss. We simply looked blankly at each other for a while, and then she said "You realize that nothing is ever going to be the same again, don't you?" "Yeah," I replied. There didn't seem to be much else to say about it.

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Monday September 06, 2010 · 7:47 PM PDT

2010/09/06 · 19:47

I spent the afternoon at the Hotel Del Coronado, same as I've done almost every weekend all summer, listening to these guys.

More over the flip.

Mehitabel9

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Saturday August 28, 2010 · 10:38 AM PDT

2010/08/28 · 10:38

Let me just start this little rant by saying that Glenn Beck is a snake-oil salesman. He's a jerk, a wacko, an opportunist, and a liar.

He's also smart. Smarter than we are, apparently.

Why do I say this? Because he's co-opted the concept of honor -- specifically, American honor -- and he's getting away with it.

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