I love these patriotic posters created by satirical site The White House. Heaps more here! via Popbitch

Tom of WellUrban has a fascinating analysis of Wellington election booths by immorality - a recommended read! He also kindly provided a link to the booth-by-booth analysis of the election results. Having perused the results for the booth I voted at, I am pleased to report the following info from Wellington South Salvation Army Hall [...]

We had a great weekend. Friday night Max very kindly gave me a ticket to Fly My Pretties at the Paramount. I was gutted that the shows had sold out so was very happy to join Max, Jake, Rupert and Helen at the gig. And it was a fantastic show. Sam was the highlight of [...]

Here is a very worrying account by two paramedics that were in New Orleans attending a conference when the hurricane struck.
As we approached the bridge, armed Gretna sheriffs formed a line across the foot of the bridge. Before we were close enough to speak, they began firing their weapons over our heads. This sent the [...]

Wynton Marsalis was on CNN last night, playing “St. James Infirmary” over pictures of the Katrina disaster, and it got me quite emotional. The scale of the human tragedy and the sadness of that beautiful city with such a vibrant culture is really overwhelming. Salon has some great articles:
Johnny White’s, located on the corner of [...]

I am sad as I visited New Orleans a few years ago and it was a beautiful, astounding, atmospheric city and one of my favourite places in the USA. Not to mention its lovely people. Incredible that it is now 80% under water. It struck me as quite an impoverished city in certain areas and [...]

Today’s Garrick Tremain cartoon from the Stuff website.

The Relationships (Statutory References) Bill was passed yesterday by the NZ Parliament. This is the piece of legislation that changes all existing laws to give civil unions (mostly) equality with marriage. There are still some gaps in the “equality” though, the right to adoption has not been extended and also civil union partners of NZ [...]

Just did my political compass via Asher.
Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -7.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.08
No surpises, I am a lefty libertarian lesbian.
The L Words strike again!

I’ve been trying to think of what to say about what appears to be the enormous success the Republicans had in using gay couples’ rights to gain critical votes in key states. In eight more states now, gay couples have no relationship rights at all. Their legal ability to visit a spouse in hospital, to [...]