House Majority Leader Eric Cantor will be giving a speech on income inequality at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management Friday between 12:15 and 1:00 pm. And several Chicago area Occupy groups will greet him. In the wake of that announcement, at least four groups are planning coordinated protests Friday,

(Frederick Douglass mural, Falls Road, Belfast, Northern Ireland) The controversy surrounding the participation of Irish LGBT groups in New York City’s St Patrick’s Day Parade, recurring thoughts of the marriage equality debacle in Maryland, and Rev. Irene Monroe’s Bilerico post connecting the St Patrick’s Parade to the Black Church sent

This episode of Maude is as important today as when it first aired in the 1970’s.

It seems that marriage equality opponents in Maryland may have already begun to collect signatures in anticipation of an upcoming referendum on the state’s marriage equality bill. Supporters of traditional marriage are not waiting for state delegates or Gov. Martin O’Malley to approve the gay marriage legislation before preparing for

I was killing some time earlier today doing some genealogical research of online records that originated in my father’s hometown of Henderson, Kentucky. That search lead me to the website the Henderson local newspaper The Gleaner (that search also led me to finding out a couple of things about Dad’s

To Pam, Kate, Lurleen, Alvin, Louise, and all the baristas. And Happy New Year to all the commenters that keep conversation in this particular coffee house interesting. Yes, even you, SciFi Geek.

Here’s the headline of a diary over at The Great Orange Satan. Gays Disproportionately Moved to the GOP on Tuesday while over at The Huffington Post: Gay Voters’ Support for Republicans Doubled From 2008

Historically, the party of the president in power almost always loses seats in the midterm elections. And sometimes, as in 1946 and in 1994 power changes hands in Congress. Now who’s being the petulant, whiny babies? Yes, a new chapter of American history did begin on November 4, 2008 but

Politics in the Land of Lincoln is getting nasty. First, there’s Mark Kirk being caught on camera w about nigg…oops, I mean jiggering the vote in Chicago’s black communities. I guess Kirk wants black folks in Chicago to be more (ahem!) niggardly with their votes. The tool. Then there’s the

Apparently to Baltimore Sun reader Carol N. Shaw, I am probably “unbelievably arrogant and patronizing.” Why would she say such a thing? Because there is at least one instance in the Blend where I used the word “limn.” The “I need more gangsta sh!t” side and the “What’s wrong with