The Personal is Political

Gay rights activists recently lauded President Obama’s extension of hospital visitation rights to LGBTQ couples, strengthening the legal status of same-sex partners in the U.S.

However, a good friend of mine recently brought up an important part of this decision that I hadn’t quite considered previously:

Could this negatively impact the fight for marriage equality?

Between a severe subway bombing in Moscow and Ricky Martin coming out of the closet, how does anyone keep track of what’s going on in the world?

Oh, yeah. We don’t.

Vice President and former Delaware Senator Joe Biden visited Israel this week, promising them “absolute, total, unvarnished commitment to Israel’s security.”

Thus, Biden espoused the same iPod-on-replay rhetoric politicians have been unquestioningly utilizing for the past forty years.

The Associated Press headline explains it all quite vividly: Health Care Summit Ends With No Compromise.

Really? How uncharacteristically shocking!

Although many of us anticipated a swift exchange of ideological cooperation and concrete blueprints for effective health care coverage, we were (surprisingly?) left without any progress whatsoever.