Obama nation

My dislike of the President and his policies and actions continues.
No surprise.

About the Gates affair, my question is this: why is the Chief Executive
of the Federal Government sticking his nose into a local police matter?
Obviously just because it's got race in it.
So he's the Race Judge in Chief?

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Likely bestseller

With thanks to the author.

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On Islam in Europe

From a New York Times review, no less, Bruce Bawer on the Islamization of the Old Continent.

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LGBT reconsidered

My unhappiness with the LesbianGayBisexualTransgendered thing is clear. I have called it a sexual Yugoslavia, an artificial group created out of parts that do not really belong together.

LGBT produces a Google number of over 11 million. If you put Gay in front of Lesbian, as in GLBT, you get about 6 million hits. Even though lesbians are numerically far fewer than gay men, the PC law requires that, as women, and because they are fewer, they get named first.

And the T thing has bothered me. I have not understood why someone like me, who is more than happy to be a man and who loves other men, should belong to a group with people who hate their physical gender and when they transition, often desire members of the newly opposite sex.

Ever since Jack Donovan (aka Malebranche) wrote Androphilia and rudely pointed out that Gay does not simply mean Happily Homosexual, but seriously implies effeminacy, my natural gender conservatism has been hyperactivated and the girly unmanliness of many, many gay men has become very irritating.

I have noticed how dominant is the assumption that to be a gay man is to be a kind of woman, or at least a womanish man or mixed manwoman. It is virtually inescapeable. I see it in movies and films, in common speech, jokes, etc. And importantly, I see it as much as or more in gay-produced and/or supposedly gay-friendly sources than I do in straight or mainstream sources. I have added the LOGO channel to my TV list and it is dominated by lesbian material and then gay male images that are overwhelmingly effeminate.

I don't have a one-dimensional notion of what it means to be a man. It doesn't require, as a lot of gays think, swaggering, burping and unrelated cluelessness. Or, when they are trying to be "serious", misogyny and violence. But I think it is an important question and although it will likely always be contested, being a man is certainly not a contentless drag routine.

Having said all that...

I am having the perverse and unfriendly notion that, due to the above reflections, the best way to understand the psychology of many male homosexuals is to see gayness precisely as a variant of transgenderism! The TGLB community: people who either physically or psychologically want to be the other sex.

Count me out.

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Malesoul 30

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Because

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Oops

Margaret Atwood's 1985 Handmaid's Tale, which I am now watching in the movie version, describes a fundamentalist Christian dystopia in North America built primarily on the oppression of women. Liberal paranoia about the evil Christian Right, which is always about to take over the country and put homos in camps, etc.

However, it actually describes an Islamic theocracy. Oops.

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Torchwood

Being a fan of Captain Jack, (pictured with "sideman" Ianto and friend Gwen) I have watched the Torchwood miniseries, Children of Earth this week. The trailers led me to believe that it would be a version of Children of the Corn or something equally derivative. I was happily surprised and then pretty horrified by how the plot developed. The writers have quite the dark imagination.

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Couldn't resist, on a couple of levels

The uniquely common

We'll do it all
Everything
On our own

We don't need
Anything
Or anyone

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me
And just forget the world?

I don't quite know
How to say
How I feel

Those three words
Are said too much
They're not enough

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me
And just forget the world?

Forget what we're told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden
That's bursting into life

Let's waste time
Chasing cars
Around our heads

I need your grace
To remind me
To find my own

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me
And just forget the world?

Forget what we're told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden
That's bursting into life

All that I am
All that I ever was
Is here in your perfect eyes
They're all I can see

I don't know where
Confused about how as well
Just know that these things
Will never change for us at all

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me
And just forget the world?