The Supreme Court narrowly upheld the Voting Rights Act today, proving that agreement on significant civil rights issues is possible, even across lines of sharp ideological divides.
The ruling should be a neat lesson for that middle-of-the-road milquetoast elected president in the name of progressive politics last fall. Gays supported Obama in droves, based [...]
Entries from June 2009
June 23, 2009
Supreme Frustration
June 7, 2009
Hen Fights at the XX Corral
I tried to like Slate’s new Double X site. For one thing, they got some genuine feminists to write for their inaugural postings, including Latoya Peterson and Linda Hirschmann, and they seemed poised to acknowledge a difference between the sorts of issues that fill up the pages of Ladies’ Home Journal and actual feminist [...]
June 2, 2009
An Odd Week for Gay Rights
To be sure it was an odd week for me: I got a sunburn taking pictures in San Francisco the day the Prop 8 ruling dropped—I don’t know why awful things happen so often on atypically beautiful days.
I spent the night in Fresno Saturday, after the Meet in the Middle March, to spend money at [...]
