Redefine Happiness

MeShell Ndegeocello was there before, if not first. This video is from 1996. Bronski Beat, of course, was there a decade earlier. (This post is actually from about two weeks ago, but I fiddled with it and am posting it now.)Some people I know are a bit excited because President Obama posted a video to the It Gets Better Project channel at Youtube. (First link is to the White House website,

Redefine Happiness

MeShell Ndegeocello was there before, if not first. This video is from 1996. Bronski Beat, of course, was there a decade earlier. (This post is actually from about two weeks ago, but I fiddled with it and am posting it now.)Some people I know are a bit excited because President Obama posted a video to the It Gets Better Project channel at Youtube. (First link is to the White House website,

I Need a Dump Truck, Baby, to Unload My Head

Okay, I don't know where to begin so let's just open up my head and see what tumbles out.The matter I'm probably most conscious of not having written about here sooner is the spate of attention given recently to the suicides of several young men -- some in their early teens -- who'd been bullied as fags, whether they were actually gay or not. (That's something that needs to be noticed more, just

I Need a Dump Truck, Baby, to Unload My Head

Okay, I don't know where to begin so let's just open up my head and see what tumbles out.The matter I'm probably most conscious of not having written about here sooner is the spate of attention given recently to the suicides of several young men -- some in their early teens -- who'd been bullied as fags, whether they were actually gay or not. (That's something that needs to be noticed more, just