Kate and Spencer: reunited at last
“I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I’ve just done what I damn well wanted to and I’ve made enough money to support myself and I ain’t afraid of being alone.”
They don’t make ‘em like that anymore, and I don’t suppose they will again. I’m not exactly a camp old queen (I’ve never managed to sit through All About Eve without nodding off) but Kate was somehow different for me, and the news of her death has made me sad.
Thanks for everything, Ms Hepburn. You were one of the best. Happy trails.
Bitch
Billy, in an email this morning:
“I hope your credibility reconstruction project is coming along well.'’
Like all my distant, acquaintances-never-quite-confirmed-as-friends, he knows too much. Release the dogs!
Justice as she is done
“The Court has taken sides in the culture war, departing from its role of assuring, as neutral observer, that the democratic rules of engagement are observed. Many Americans do not want persons who openly engage in homosexual conduct as partners in their business, as scoutmasters for their children, as teachers in their children’s schools, or as boarders in their home. They view this as protecting themselves and their families from a lifestyle that they believe to be immoral and destructive.”
Justice Scalia speaks out on behalf of America’s scouts, students and boarding-house operators, dissenting in Lawrence et al. v. Texas.
Scalia seems certain that marriage is next. The San Francisco Chronicle agrees, breathlessly:
“The decision overturned the court’s 1986 ruling in Bowers vs. Hardwick, another sodomy case, and laid the groundwork for legal challenges to all laws that discriminate against gays and lesbians, including marriage laws, the “don’t ask, don’t tell” rule on gays in the military and a host of custody, employment and other disputes often based on 13 remaining state sodomy laws and the Bowers decision.”
It is a monumental decision, of course, and a historic moment.
Gay marriage is now just a court challenge or two away, surely. I couldn’t see America’s homos putting up with having to travel to Canada to get married for long.
The (Pre-) Bush Bash
The last hurrah … you’re invited! (Click image to view PDF invite)
Seventh Circle
Level 6 - The City of Dis (Heretics)
You approach Satan’s wretched city where you behold a wide plain surrounded by iron walls. Before you are fields full of distress and torment terrible. Burning tombs are littered about the landscape. Inside these flaming sepulchers suffer the heretics, failing to believe in God and the afterlife, who make themselves audible by doleful sighs. You will join the wicked that lie here, and will be offered no respite. The three infernal Furies stained with blood, with limbs of women and hair of serpents, dwell in this circle of Hell.
The Dante’s Inferno Test has banished me to the Seventh Level of Hell:
| Level | Score |
|---|---|
| Purgatory (Repenting Believers) | Very Low |
| Level 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers) | Very Low |
| Level 2 (Lustful) | Very High |
| Level 3 (Gluttonous) | Moderate |
| Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious) | Very Low |
| Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy) | High |
| Level 6 - The City of Dis (Heretics) | Very High |
| Level 7 (Violent) | Extreme |
| Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers) | Very High |
| Level 9 - Cocytus (Treacherous) | Very High |
Take the Dante’s Divine Comedy Inferno Test
We Have Wheels
Our new baby. She’s a cutie, eh?
I am lunch
“Alright people, it’s 1:55 … back to work!”
And I think to myself…
The ABC reports that our Minister for Immigration, Mr Ruddock, has announced that he will challenge last week’s Family Court ruling which found that it is illegal for the government to keep children in jail, indefinitely, without trial.
The fedferal government ask the High Court to confirm that the Family Court has no power to order the Immigration Department to release children who have committed no crime and who are detained against their will in appalling conditions in remote detention camps in the most remote and inhospitable parts of Australia.
I’m speechless.
Life on the A-list
Last night to the Columbine for the launch of ACON’s new Sexually-Transmitted Infections booklet (glamorous, eh?)
I daresay I drank more than I should have, but the booze was free and I needed something to cushion me in that crowd. I’m getting a little tired of being asked the same questions over and over again (the most common of which, “How are you liking Newcastle?” is somewhat misdirected as I haven’t moved there yet).
Anyhow the Safe Sex Sluts did a fine job of feeding us, Nurse Nancy did her bit, the speeches were mercifully short, the bar tab lasted the distance and we collapsed into bed not too much the worse for wear.
Statistical observation of the evening: I have had all but one of the STIs listed in the ACON booklet, and failed to shag all but one of the Gaydar boys featured in the photographs currently showing on the Columbine wall. Conclusion: those boys need to get out more. 
Good news is that finance for our vehicular purchase was approved yesterday so we can go ahead and buy the ute of our dreams. The grand plan is coming together quite nicely.
Newly Inyerface
Regular visitors (do they exist? I cannot say) will notice some small changes to the site “user interface” (I hate that phrase) this morning. Navigation menu now at top of page in tiny font that anyone over the age of 40 won’t be able to read
Apologies in advance for any bugs. Feedback invited, even from HTML wonks who want to look under the hood and tell me it’s wrong, wrong, all wrong…
Changes to the lefthandsidebar (←over there) are also planned, and will bring the site into minmalist splendour… soon.