Sometimes when I come in on the middle of a fight I think I should probably just shut up, but…

Political bloggers Matt Yglesias, Glenn Greenwald, and Kevin Drum are apparently having an argument over whether sexual orientation is “anyone’s business.” That is, is it a legitimate question for debate?

Brett & Kate McKay’s attempt to define the meaning of “manliness” left me feeling that they’d painted themselves into a rhetorical corner. I’ll let you read it for yourselves, but the upshot is this: manliness is exhibiting all the virtues of adulthood (resiliency, self-reliance, integrity, and so forth) but in a manly manner. [...]

To save the turtle we must ban gay marriage.

Rod Dreher says this:

“If homosexuality is legitimized — as distinct from being tolerated, which I generally support — then it represents the culmination of the sexual revolution, the goal of which was to make individual desire the sole legitimate [...]

Interesting. Just before we move to Blacksburg, it’s announced that “Girls Gone Wild” intends to film there. Opposition is intense, as it should be, and I’m hoping they get run out of town.

Folks like GGW founder Joe Francis make things difficult for those of us who don’t normally have issues with sexual [...]

Susie Bright has noticed an interesting change in our political discourse, probably brought about by the (rather large) number of virulently anti-gay voices outed as gay1.

1 See: Ed Shrock, Ted Haggert, Paul Barnes, David Drier, Jim West

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