A Positive Morsel

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When it feels as though there's bad news everywhere—like a spreading war in the Middle East and continued conflict in Ukraine and Sudan—it's sometimes helpful to find a pinch of good news.

Here you go:  Thailand has legalized same-sex marriage. Recently the king approved a law passed by parliament that makes Thailand the first nation in Southeast Asia to take this step. It joins Taiwan and Nepal as the three Asian countries allowing gay nuptials.

Now, for at least a couple of minutes, I can block out the bad and indulge in a Thai high.

This Week's Quote

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Extraordinary for JD Vance to invoke a friend who needed an abortion, while appearing on behalf of the president who ended American women’s right to choose.

Pete Buttigieg

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Civic Duty

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If you're a regular reader, you know I love my women's basketball.

This evening, though, I tore myself away from the WNBA semifinals to watch all two hours of the vice presidential debate.

Such sacrifice cries out for the Congressional Medal of Honor.

Gender Contender

 

Dame Maggie

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The great British actor Maggie Smith died today at 89.

New York Times critic Frank Rich once praised her as "the stylized classicist who can italicize a line as prosaic as 'Have you no marmalade?' until it sounds like a freshly minted epigram by Coward or Wilde."

In other words, she was a gay man.

This Week's Quote

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Republican men are coming for our reproductive rights, they are coming for IVF, they are coming for gay marriage. You know who's coming for them? Not their wives... I'm sure of it.

Dana Goldberg

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The Woman For Me Is a Man

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An hour ago I'd finished pumping gas into my car when I heard a male voice comment on my Sue Bird t-shirt. I responded cautiously, even though this is liberal Seattle, in case the middle-aged fella aimed to go down a sexist or homophobic path.

It turned out he knew what Bird's number had been when she played for the WNBA's Seattle Storm. And he attends all Seattle Reign women's soccer games with his young daughter, and his favorite soccer player of all time, male or female, is Megan Rapinoe. He said he doesn't care if his daughter plays a sport, his main concern is that she be equipped with self-esteem. He went on to reference his growing up as "a straight white male."

At this point I'm looking around the gas station for cameras, because this guy is too good to be true and I must've landed in a prank-the-liberal show.

Eventually we got onto the topic of Ani DiFranco, the bisexual alt-rock trailblazer, and he said he'd just bought tickets for her upcoming show and contributes to her independent record label. 

That's when I wondered if I could convince him to become a lesbian.