8:47am Shared 6 links on Google Reader. (Hide Details)

• Trapped in a Mormon Gulag
• US Prosecutes for Torture
• Analysis: Bush’s personality shapes his legacy
• It’s Not Too Late: Demand Obama Investigate Bush’s War Crimes
• Torture and the Crime of Aggressive War
• Jeff Schweitzer: The Extremism of Bobby Jindal

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Here are some of the people writing about some of the stuff I wish I had time to write about, for December 11th through January 5th:

• Torture and the Crime of Aggressive War -
• Analysis: Bush’s personality shapes his legacy -
• It’s Not Too Late: Demand Obama Investigate Bush’s War Crimes -
• Don’t Let Them Get Away With It -
• Ex-Iraq PM: Bush policies a ‘failure’ -
• Talking While Brown: A Look at Racism in U.S. Airports -
• The Problem with “Feeling Creative” -
• What I will miss about the Bush administration -

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Not the best way to kick off the new year, but I won’t be posting anything today. I’ve got a few things I’m working on, so there will be more to come. No matter how frustrating it is not to have time to make writing a priority, I cant give it up. Writing is as necessary to me as breathing. So, like a drowning man, I keep struggling to the surface… ...

I admit it. I’m a bit disappointed not to be among the nominees for the Best LGBT Blog in the 2008 Weblog Awards, but I blog a lot less often than I used to.  Hell, I’m probably have the blogger I used to be. But at least some of the blogs I write for (when I write) have been nominated: The Bilerico Project and Pam’s House Blend. Blabbeando, another great blog, is also nominated. Check them out, and cast your vote. ...

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Governor Bill Richardson has withdrawn as the nominee for Secretary of Commerce. As of yet there is no openly gay cabinet appointee by Obama. Many in our community are pissed at him for inviting Rick Warren to give the invocation... ...

If you haven’t seen it yet, check the episode schedule and make sure you don’t miss the History Channel’s “Crash: The Next Great Depression?”. This one-hour special looks at the current economic meltdown in the US and compares and contrasts it with what led up to the Great Depression, the 1929 Crash, its immediate aftermath and what helped to bring us out of the Depression. Threading first person accounts with expert interviews, the special lets viewers understand how much history is repeating itself and what does history tell us about our future? Tonight, it followed (appropriately enough) the ...

9:50pm Updated status on Facebook. Terrance is glad the kids are in bed, and the laundry folded. Now what was it that I wanted to do today?… ...

Thanks in part to you, the readers of this blog, equal immigration rights for same-sex couples finished in 2nd place among all immigration-related proposals in voting on Change.org: Pass the DREAM Act: 2,219 votes Equal immigration rights for same-sex couples:... ...

12:36am Bookmarked a link on Delicious. Who was Ponzi — what the heck was his scheme? - CNN.com ...

“If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.” - Harvey Milk, November 1977 I was probably sleeping at 1:20 a.m. on June, 28, 1969, when police raided the Stonewall Inn, in Greenwich Village, setting off several days and nights of riots now credited with launching the modern gay rights movement. I was four months old. Too young to know what was happening in New York or its significance to me, or that I would be among the beneficiaries of the fight started that night. I was probably more concerned with mastering the art of ...

• Who was Ponzi — what the heck was his scheme? - CNN.com (tags: ponzi)

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I just checked Obama's new interactive web page Open for Questions to see how the voting is going on LGBT issues. When you search for questions that have the words gay or lesbian in them, the question getting the most... ...

We're off to see DSO in Baltimore tonight. Here's a repost from 1/1/05. I've added links where you can stream these shows in their entirety. I'll get back to new content next week.------New Year's Eve is always a big disappointment to me. It very rarely lives up to the hype, and it usually turns out to be more of a drag than it is fun. I think maybe I've set the bar too high though. I've had 4 incredible New Year's Eves. 12-31-88/89/90/99.The first 3 involved me going to see The Grateful Dead in Oakland, CA.12-31-88. There ...

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Throughout the outcry over Barack Obama's selection of Rick Warren to give the invocation at his inauguration, I have taken a lot of heat for defending the megachurch pastor against claims he considers gay relationships the "equivalent" of incest and... ...

Calling all activists - now is your opportunity to influence president-elect Barack Obama's thinking on gay issues (actually all issues). It has become very much easier to submit a question to his transition team as well as vote on other... ...

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Here are the five biggest stories from Gay News Watch over the last week: Bush refuses to back historic U.N. gay rights measure: QUICK LOOK: An unprecedented declaration seeking to decriminalize homosexuality won the support of 66 countries in the... ...

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