Art Robinson is running as a Republican in Oregon's fourth district, and he is just another of the inmates hoping to run the asylum judging by his kooky appearance on The Rachel Maddow Show. Maddow fairly gives him quotes from his own past and he well, he melts down...after the jump...
Rachel Maddow points out that the next culture war will be over food, thanks to Michelle Obama's campaign for healthy eating and exercise.
Gee, I don't remember liberals bitching when Laura Bush encouraged reading. "Let me be illiterate if I want to, Big Sister!"
All Mrs. Obama is doing is encouraging something that we all know to be true—eating healthy and exercising are good ideas. If everyone ate better and exercised than they do already, we'd be a happier, healthier and wealthier nation.These are facts.
But Republicans do not like reality. Witness the Texas Board of Education.
Rachel Maddow asks what all gay people should ask—why did Elton John perform for Rush Limbaugh? "Elton—call us. Explain it." She's a lot more good-natured about it than I am.
Fresh Maddow
The April 12, 2010, issue of People is chock-full of lesbian-couple representation.
First, there's a meaty article on MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, who's photographed with her partner Susan Mikula at their Massachusetts home. Allegedly, their New York apartment is all of 275 square feet (is this possible for a couple and an English lab?) and they don't have a TV in their Mass. home because both would do nothing but watch it all the time.
The piece is charming, from recounting how they met when Maddow was hired to do yardwork for Mikula in 1999 ("It was very Desperate Housewives") to details like Maddow's affection for comic books. It depoliticizes the highly partisan Maddow, presenting her life—and her life with her partner—as everyday.
The nominees for the 21st Annual GLAAD Media Awards are out here.
The obvious winner for Outstanding Film—Wide Release better be A Single Man. Precious is a fantastic movie, but the gay content of the former is far greater. I've never seen any of the Limited Release nominees and have only heard of one of them.
Rachel Maddow feasts on the brain of ex-gay advocate Richard Cohen of the International Healing Foundation. This slimeball acts as if he's against Uganda's "kill the gays" bill, and yet his "work" has directly led to the legislation he now disavows. Love when he denies that his book says race is a factor in being gay until she forces him to admit that was in his bullshit book.
The rest after the jump...
Marriage-equality foes have launched a new initiative to protect traditional marriage between a man and a woman. Again exposing their stupidity, they've named it Two Million For Marriage, or for short...2M4M.
