Shamrockr
Published Letters: 7
As a gay American, I too felt the joy the day Newsom passed his legislation. It was palatable, even to the nether regions of a small town in Mississippi. It was inevitable, and yet, just because something is inevitable, doesn't mean the timing is right.
It was an election year. Anyone cognizant of the events happening after 9/11 could have predicted what would happen leaading to the gulf wars. Whereas gay assimiliation is an eventuality, the war that we are presently engaged in, begun by George Bush, and handed to the Republicans on a silver platter by Newsom, couldn't have come at a worse time. We blindly were led into war with rhetoric...with four years behind us, and the proper leadership, (and with a President, Al Gore, not in bed with the Saudis), war would not have been an eventuality. It was preventable. I blame the war completely on Newsom.
I do not feel that the joy and release, that would have come eventually, was worth the thousands of souls, gay and straight, we have lost in an asinine war. Newsom has blood on his hands. I guess his wife pretty much thought the same...she didn't stick around him very long after that either. Being a journalist, she could forsee what perhaps others couldn't. Congrats to you, the now ex Mrs. Newsom, on having the wisdom to leave an idiot.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
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