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The neocons want us to stay in Iraq, Al Qaeda wants us to stay, most conservatives want us to stay. But the majority of the American people agree with the Democrats, progressives, independents, and want out. It's pretty simple: You're either with us or you're with the terrorists.

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Fags take over the Gray Lady

Gay Art: A Movement, or at Least a Moment
By GUY TREBAY

MAYBE it doesn’t signal the arrival of a major arts movement and maybe it is just a symptom of another consumer-driven microtrend, but it would seem that something is afoot in the contemporary art world and it concerns what you could call, for lack of more comprehensive terminology, a burgeoning of gay male art. More

Gay Photography

A Young Man With an Eye, and Friends Up a Tree
By PHILIP GEFTER

IN the beginning Ryan McGinley was known for pictures of his young downtown Manhattan friends. By day he photographed them running, skateboarding, moving, always in motion. By night they were partying, having sex, taking drugs, living fast.

“For me the reason to go out to a party was to photograph,” Mr. McGinley said about those early pictures, which are as playful as they are voyeuristic, straddling a line between exuberance and disorientation. More

Getting a Get from Gay ExHusband
An Ancient Coda to My 21st-Century Divorce
By CINDY CHUPACK

I WAS finally getting married. That’s what I kept telling people. I didn’t say I was finally getting married “again,” because bringing up a first marriage during the planning of a second is a major buzz kill for everyone involved.

It reminds the bride and groom, at a time when their biggest worry should be butter cream versus spun sugar, that love does not always conquer all. And I didn’t want to hang that cloud over my fiancé, Ian, because this was his first wedding (another term I didn’t like, because it implied he may have a second). So we tried not to talk about first or second anythings until our meeting with the rabbi.

Ian called our rabbi “the hot rabbi” because she was young and hip and, well, hot. I didn’t mind his calling her hot. In fact, I found it reassuring, because it was yet another indication that Ian was not gay. Above all, I wanted to avoid publicly declaring my love for someone only to have him later realize he’s gay. Again. More

Bishops & Pawns

U.S. Bishop, Making It Official, Throws in Lot With African Churchman
By NEELA BANERJEE

WOODBRIDGE, Va. May 5 — The Anglican archbishop of Nigeria, Peter J. Akinola, on Saturday installed Bishop Martyn Minns of Virginia as the new leader of a diocese that would take in congregations around the country that want to leave the Episcopal Church. In doing so, Archbishop Akinola rejected requests by leaders of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the Episcopal Church to refrain from taking part in the ceremony. More

Followed, of course, by Dick at the Gray Lady

A Prince of Pulp, Legit at Last
By CHARLES McGRATH

ALL his life the science fiction writer Philip K. Dick yearned for what he called the mainstream. He wanted to be a serious literary writer, not a sci-fi hack whose audience consisted, he once said, of “trolls and wackos.” But Mr. Dick, who popped as many as 1,000 amphetamine pills a week, was also more than a little paranoid. In the early ’70s, when he had finally achieved some standing among academic critics and literary theorists — most notably the Polish writer Stanislaw Lem — he narced on them all, writing a letter to the F.B.I. in which he claimed they were K.G.B. agents trying to take over American science fiction.

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The books aren’t just trippy, though. The best of them are visionary or surreal in a way that American literature, so rooted in reality and observation, seldom is. Critics have often compared Mr. Dick to Borges, Kafka, Calvino. To come up with an American analogue you have to think of someone like Emerson, but nobody would ever dream of looking to him for movie ideas. Emerson was all brain, no pulp. More

Just One More Friedman...

Boehner Acknowledges GOP Nervous on Iraq
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 11:04 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House Republican leader said Sunday that GOP support could waver if President Bush's Iraq war policy does not succeed by the fall.

But first, the president's troop increase deserves a shot, Minority Leader John Boehner said.

''We don't even have all of the 30,000 additional troops in Iraq yet, so we're supporting the president. We want this plan to have a chance of succeeding,'' said Boehner, R-Ohio.

''Over the course of the next three to four months, we'll have some idea how well the plan's working. Early signs are indicating there is clearly some success on a number of fronts,'' he said.

But, he added, ''By the time we get to September or October, members are going to want to know how well this is working, and if it isn't, what's Plan B?''

Thus far, Republicans have stood behind the president's increasingly unpopular war policies, including the troop increase and an open-ended war commitment. More

I can just hear Johnson saying that; not so much FDR...

WooT! Hamel on Kids and Politics & Baghdad

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sparagmos
• noun [mass noun] the dismemberment of a victim, forming a part of some ancient rituals and represented in Greek myths and tragedies.
— origin Greek, literally ‘tearing’.
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Slashing with a box cutter and running just doesn't cut it anymore...

The Valet

Caught The Valet at the Uptown this afternoon. It's a very well done French farce. Laughed my head off.