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Time for some silliness…

Problem with Gus van Sant’s “Milk”

While I loved “Milk,” I’ve felt like there was some things missing from the story. Harvey was more radical sexually and socially. And the riots that took place after his killer was given a light sentence would have added to the history in the film. I think leaving things out may have been necessary in order to boil the final years of Harvey’s life into a single-film biopic, but the film’s castration of our hero does relieve present-day film goers dusgust from understanding Milk’s sexual radicalism and the reality gay male relationships.

So why did it happen? Why is the closet-busting film about Harvey Milk so fearful when it comes to its subject’s own sex life? Well, partly because even gay saints need to be shown exercising some sexual restraint. But the main reason undoubtedly is that bundling themselves back into the closet is exactly what today’s US gay-rights campaigners are doing in their campaign for gay marriage. In order to try and persuade an unconvinced American public to support gay marriage under the rubric of equality, gay male relationships are being presented, rather disingenuously, as “just the same” as male-female ones.

via There’s one problem with Gus van Sant’s Milk: it castrates its hero | Film | guardian.co.uk

Obama says what many of us from snow areas think

Those of us from snowy areas (I grew up at the southern tip of the Ohio “snow belt”) are amazed how DC closes down at  the hint of inclement weather.

The president, joking with reporters before a meeting he’s having right now with business leaders at the White House, said he was amazed this morning to hear that his daughters’ school (the private Sidwell Friends) is closed today because of icy streets and sidewalks in the nation’s capital.

“My children’s school was canceled today, because of what … some ice?”

via Obama is amused that his daughters’ school closed today – The Oval: Tracking the Obama presidency.