Posts Tagged ‘Barack Obama’
In which The Gay Recluse mixes pleasure and politics. Today — in what we can now confirm was the biggest day ever at The Gay Recluse (from a traffic-whore perspective) — we had the pleasure of having Dan Savage link to our smokin’ hot gay-statue contest. We encourage you to check out the full post […]
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Tags: Barack Obama, Dan Savage, Geraldine Ferraro, Hillary Clinton, Hot Gay Statues, Janice Dickinson, Vice President
In which The Gay Recluse scores selected opinion pieces in The Times. Paul Krugman/Deliverance or Diversion The Short Version: Why did Obama have to come along and wreck everything? In his words: “Some progressives are appalled by the direction their party seems to have taken: they wanted another F.D.R., yet feel that they’re getting an […]
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Tags: Barack Obama, Electability, Hillary Clinton, Kenya, Kofi Annan, Paul Krugman, Roger Cohen, William Buckley, William Kristol
In which The Gay Recluse scores selected opinion pieces in The Times. Frank Rich/McCain Channels His Inner Hillary The Short Version: Like Clinton, McCain cannot escape his support of the Iraq war, which is a losing proposition with the electorate. In his words: “The good news for the Democrats so far is that whatever Mr. […]
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Tags: Abyei, Barack Obama, Frank Rich, Hillary Clinton, Iraq, John McCain, Maureen Dowd, Nicholas Kristoff, Sudan, The New York Times
In which The Gay Recluse scores selected opinion pieces in The Times. Bob Herbert/A Nominee? Or a Debacle? The Short Version: Tuesday’s Democratic primaries could either determine the nominee or not. In his words: “That would also cause bad feelings that would be difficult to assuage.” The Score: C-(Customary) This is a good piece for […]
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Tags: Barack Obama, Bob Herbert, Gail Collins, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Mitt Romney, The New York Times
In which The Gay Recluse scores selected opinion pieces in The Times. Gail Collins/Hillary, Buckeye Girl The Short Version: Hillary can’t compete against Barack’s charm. (This may help her in Ohio.) In her words: “If Hillary is stumbling, it may be because there just isn’t any good path to take. ” Score: B (Benign) This […]
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Tags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Gail Collins, Hawks, Hillary Clinton, NATO, Nicholas Kristof, Ohio, Roger Cohen, Sudan
On Our Secret Longing for Janice Dickinson To Run Unopposed for President of the United States
In which The Gay Recluse becomes fatigued with the general election before it’s even started. We begin by admitting that we came extremely late to the Janice Dickinson party, having only just caught up in the last few weeks with seasons two and three of her reality television show on Oxygen, “The Janice Dickinson Modeling […]
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Tags: Barack Obama, Grace Jones, Hillary Clinton, Janice Dickinson, John McCain, Oxygen, The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency
In which The Gay Recluse ponders a sampling of recent search terms used to find the very pages you are now reading. Note: All search terms listed are in the exact form provided by WordPress.com, which is the host (at least for a while) of this blog. Hyperlinks to relevant posts included. Search: two headed […]
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Tags: Barack Obama, Edwardian, Gay Bears, Gay Modern Love, General Electric, Geraldine Ferraro, Grant Hart, Hüsker Dü, Henry James, Jesus, John McCain, Modern Love, No Exit, Pets, Pittsburgh, Retirement Pleasures, Shadows, Spacemen 3, Steelers, Two-headed cats
In which The Gay Recluse ponders a sampling of recent search terms used to find the very pages you are now reading. Note: All search terms listed are in the exact form provided by WordPress.com, which is the host (at least for a while) of this blog. Hyperlinks to relevant posts included. Search: the winter […]
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Tags: Audubon Terrace, Barack Obama, Blue Atlas Cedar, Denton Welch, Edwardian Architecture, Endorsement, Gay Sex in the Seventies, Gentrification, Grant Hart, Hüsker Dü, In the Mood for Love, Jack Nicholson, Parking Garage, Ruins, Snow, Super Bowl, Sweetie Clementines, Vacant Shells, Washington Heights
Until now we’ve been careful not to endorse either of the leading Democratic candidates — preferring to hold out for Geraldine Ferraro — but with the New York State primary upon us, we have decided to end our prevarication and officially endorse Barack Obama. Our decision is not based on any particular issue — for […]
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Tags: Barack Obama, Endorsement, Geraldine Ferraro, Hillary Clinton, Modern Lovers, R.E.M., Ventures
In which The Gay Recluse writes about the Democratic primaries in highly attenuated metaphors. Regular readers of The Gay Recluse know that we have reported on the fierce and unsettled debate over which Clementine — the Sweetie® from Mulholland Citrus or Cuties® from Sun Pacific — provides the most delightful and refreshing citrus “experience.” Initially […]
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Tags: Barack Obama, Clementines, Cuties, Democratic Primaries, Fresh Direct, Hillary Clinton, Juicy, Mulholland Citrus, Sun Pacific, Sweetie Clementines, Work
In which The Gay Recluse writes in highly attenuated metaphors about the Democratic primaries in Michigan. Regular readers of The Gay Recluse may remember when — a long time ago, perhaps even as many as ten days — we wrote about our preference for Sweetie® Clementines from Mulholland Citrus after a high-stakes “taste-off” with Cuties® […]
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Tags: Barack Obama, Clementines, Cuties, Democratic Primaries, Hillary Clinton, Michigan, Mulholland Citrus, Sun Pacific, Sweetie Clementines
[Note: Click here for our review and revised analysis from opening night.] In musical terms, Friday night’s final dress rehearsal of Die Walküre (and with the understanding that it was just that, i.e., a rehearsal) at the Met seemed problematic; first Jim Morris (Wotan) canceled, which when announced sent the expected sigh of disappointment across […]
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Tags: Adrianne Pieczonka, Arthur Schopenhauer, Barack Obama, Clifton Forbis, Die Walküre, James Morris, Lisa Gasteen, Lorin Maazel, Mike Huckabee, Richard Wagner, Stephanie Blythe, The Metropolitan Opera
In which The Gay Recluse writes in highly attenuated metaphors (but with uncharacteristic optimism) about the Democratic election results in Iowa. In the past month, we were given the opportunity to engage in a high-stakes “taste-off” between upstart Sweetie® Clementines from Mulholland Citrus and longstanding front-runner Cuties® California Clementines from Sun Pacific. As we all […]
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Tags: Barack Obama, Cuties, Hillary Clinton, Mulholland Citrus, Sun Pacific, Sweetie Clementines, Zipper Skin
With the official debut of the presidential primaries this week in Iowa, we would like to offer — after careful consideration of each candidate and his or her respective platform — our endorsement of the one we think would best be suited to run the United States beginning in January, 2009. Those familiar with The […]
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Tags: Barack Obama, Election 2008, Geraldine Ferraro, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, John McCain, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Presidential Primaries, Ron Paul, Rudy Giuliani
Joining Frank Rich today in what can only be described as a Mike Huckabee orgy currently taking place in the editorial pages of the New York Times is David Brooks, who calls Huckabee “socially conservative, but not a partisan culture warrior.” In “Blogging Heads: Politics as Unusual” (The Times’ new — and horribly stilted — […]
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Tags: AIDS, Barack Obama, David Brooks, Frank Rich, Gay Rights, George W. Bush, Homosexuality, Mike Huckabee, The New York Times
Of all the political columnists at The New York Times, Frank Rich has always seemed the most comfortable — or perhaps we should say the least oblivious — writing about political and social issues from what could be called a gay perspective. After all Rich, who was perhaps the most feared theater critic in the […]
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Tags: AIDS, Andrew Sullivan, Barack Obama, David Brooks, Donnie McClurkin, Fascism, Frank Rich, Gail Collins, Maureen Dowd, Mike Huckabee, Nick Kristoff, Paul Krugman, The New York Times, Thomas Friedman
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