Today’s march was reportedly uneventful.
Politically Incorrect Gay Pride March in Sweden Today
29 JulThursday’s recommended reading – gays and muslims and tigers and bears oh my!
23 JulWisconsin activists targeted by government tell their story (WallStreetJournal)
Liberal says: American uniforms “trigger” Muslims (DC Gazette)
Protest Obama inaction on Iranian hostages (SmartGirlPolitics)
Crony capitalism at the Sierra Club (WashingtonTimes)
More threats to Libertarian Presidential candidate – Trump may run 3rd party (DailyBeast)
John Hospers anniversary for gay pride month – first gay candidate to receive an Electoral College vote
8 JunJohn Hospers, an academic philosopher and author on aesthetics, was the first Libertarian Party candidate for president in 1972.
Though the Libertarians were on very few ballots he received an Electoral College vote, becoming the first openly gay man (by 1972 standards anyway) to do so. His running mate, Tonie Nathan, became the first Jewish American and the first woman to receive an Electoral College vote as well.
Monday’s recommended reading
1 JunAre you cold, dearie? Another study the Feds could do while playing Keystone cops with Ebola….
16 OctToday I biked to the office just after dawn and passed my favorite Chinese owned bagel place at 22nd and P Streets NW in Dupont Circle. (They make a delicious bagel with creme cheese and bacon, just like in Tel Aviv. Ask for the “number 4” which is that plus coffee and an orange juice.)
A cute-enough-to-look gay guy, thin, full head of short gray hair, sort of a Wallace Langham (an actor who is amazingly not gay, though he played Peter Thiel in The Social Network), was sitting outside in a hoodie zipped up with arms and legs crossed.
You can find discussions on line of whether male leg crossing is “gay.” But is it really something else?
One can find lots of studies that show that gay men are neuro-endocrinologically more like women than are most men. And one can find studies that women really are more sensitive to and uncomfortable with cold than are men.
So the research question is: Are gay men also less comfortable with the cold? Or more sensitive to temperature? Is this why they cross their legs, and even their arms? Is it because they are thinner than other men? Or because they have a more female nervous system related to temperature sensitivity? (For years in churches and schools in cold classrooms, back when I didn’t carry a few spare pounds, I used to sit with my hands under my thighs to keep them warm.)
Recently the often fact challenged gay blog Towelrod (and where does that go?), which almost always shills for the Democratic Party establishment, lied to do a smackdown on RedState‘s Erick Erickson. Erickson had written a blog post entitled“Fat lesbians got all the ebola dollars but blame the gop.” I suppose it is an ambiguous title; you could think he is saying that the fat lesbians are blaming the GOP. I read it as an injunction: even though a silly study of obesity among lesbians received research dollars that would have better gone to an ebola vaccine, you (Democratic hacks) should blame the GOP. It’s clearly a post that blames central planners, not gays and lesbians, for misusing tax dollars on silly research schemes instead of cures and treatments people actually want. And Towelrod lies about that, as usual.
But I’ll play along. I want my federal check now to begin my survey of gay and straight men on whether they think the room is too cold. Then we will finally know if that is why we gay men like to cross our legs. or if we are just trying to show off our new Ferragamos.
Check your privilege, white boy?
21 JunJust asking: This is what I don’t get…we have trannies who say they don’t want to be the way they were born and that’s celebrated…we aren’t bound by our genetics. But on the other hand, any gay man that decides he does not want to be gay and be bound by his genetics, that’s horrible self hate. Why aren’t people who want to change genders also labeled as people with self hatred?
Of course boys who want to be girls and girls who want to be boys are simply fighting through the oppressive socialization of patriarchal heteronormativity while gays who don’t want to be gays are oppressed by the false consciousness of repressive conservative Christianity. Catechism and ritual are very comforting, unlike thinking or questioning or uncertainty.
Last night I was at a libertarian birthday party where there were many “progressive” friends of the libertarian and his truly lovely liberal spouse. One insisted that DC was being wrecked by gentrification and wanted there to be some plan or control to prevent people from moving to and changing neighborhoods, at least “too” rapidly. (Leaving aside that DC is being gentrified because the federal government imports a thousand lawyers, lobbyists and bureaucrats – at 6 figure salaries – monthly to DC, and severely regulates and restricts increasing the supply of housing, forbidding the erection of apartment buildings over 10 stories.)
I asked the obvious questions about whether Jews should be free to move to the Middle East, or Central Americans to the United States. That was different of course, because they don’t have “privilege.” If you have money or education etc. then your choices and freedom of movement should be regulated. If you don’t have them you should be free to move. That’s apparently equal opportunity.
Making babies – Some questions for libertarian futurists/transhumanists
9 OctIf gene therapy could do the following, should it be legal:
1) Eliminate a child’s inherited disorders
2) Allow a mother to eliminate or re-code the DNA contributed by a biological father who was her rapist
3) Allow a parent to eliminate or re-code the DNA contributed by a former spouse who had given up parental rights
4) Allow gay or lesbian couples to re-code DNA contributed by a donor to be more similar to that of their partner who was not a biological parent
5) Allow parents to shift their child’s appearance – hair, skin, eyes, nose, height, talents, mannerisms – to assimilate them to their society’s dominant or more successful ethnic groups
6) Allow adoption agencies, orphanages, or adoptive parents to make parentless children more desirable to those willing to adopt, including shifting their appearance to be more like the parents, even recoding their DNA to be that of the adoptive parents. This could include shifting their ethnic identity.
Currently there is a surplus of never-going-to-be adopted babies of color. Indeed, upper middle class left-liberal “anti-racist” Americans routinely fly to Russia, China, Latin America, to adopt non-black babies, rather than adopt black American orphans. I’ve sold at least two houses to lovely people in DC who exactly fit that stereotype, one of whom runs a major leftover political group.
Incidentally, to return to the Boudreaux essay, black critics of current adoption regulations say they discriminate against prospective adoptive parents who are black. Of course, economic theory tells us when markets aren’t free people discriminate on bigotry instead of price; black would-be parents can’t afford the monopoly adoption fees. Perhaps if black moms could sell their parental rights and choose to sell them only to black parents, at the lower prices in a freer market, the glut of unadopted black babies would be reduced.