Thanks to a tip from my friend Phil Attey, a great, well-written opinions piece from Friday’s Washington Post that has the audacity to suggest that factual information should trump hysteria birthed fiction when it comes to repealing and rewriting the American policy on gays serving openly in the military. John M. Shalikashvili is a retired Army general and former Chief of Staff who writes with remarkable reason that the evidence is should determine what changes are needed and when those changes should be implemented.
Often, Canada is thought to be a mythical progressive utopia, where hate, homophobia, and intolerance are nearly non-existent, and of course the conceit could not be further from the truth. Meet Patricia and Alexander Harrison, who, along with their charming seventeen year old son, who bandied together to harass Rod Boggs and Bill Hart, a couple of over thirty years who moved into the same “upscale” complex as the Harrisons and were promptly forced to endure constant torment, between June, 2006 and October, 2008. The Harrisons, who were taken to the British Columbia Supreme court, where they were each fined seven thousand, five-hundred dollars in damages to be paid to the two men. Ah, the Harrisons – I am thankful just to breathe the same rarefied air.
Hillary Rodham Clinton is reportedly recovering from “successful surgery” to her right elbow, the former First Lady and current Secretary of State undergoing the operation Friday morning at the George Washington Hospital, in Washington, D.C.
The Obama’s released the first official portrait of Bo, the First Family’s Portuguese water dog, designed, by the way, as a baseball card.
It is unfortunate, but understandable nonetheless, that reigning Wimbledon champion Rafael Nadal has, owing to tendentious in his knees, made the decision to withdraw from this year’s tournament, set to begin Monday.
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