Who's Responsible for What they Say?

When 59-year-old Jim Adkisson stormed into the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Church on July 27 as an angry unemployed engineer, fatally shooting two adults, most of us were shocked.

      When 51-year-old Timothy Dale Johnson, fearing he'd been canned by Target, barged into the Arkansas Democratic Headquarters on Aug. 13, asked to speak personally to the state party chairman, and shot him three times fatally, we were shocked.

Batting 100% 

Is it winter yet? Please God, bring the winter on! My buds and I can't handle anymore emergency repairs or "honey do's." We are exhausted and we're not exactly batting 100%.

            Last week we were laughing ourselves silly because one of my bros had changed the tires on his wife's car. The next morning she called him at work saying the car wouldn't move. His femme explained how the car started fine, but no matter how hard she pushed the gas pedal it wouldn't move an inch.

 

Dorothy's Review of Brideshead Revisited

Rated PG-13 for some sexual content                   

Dorothy's rating: 2 triangles

      Perhaps anyone who saw the Brideshead BBC series dramatization in 1982 would be disappointed with this version. It was a hard blow for me to see it changed so much. But even without having the early masterpiece for comparison, this version, written by Andrew Davies and Jeremy Brock and directed by Julian Jarrold, can easily be found lacking.

      Based on the novel by Evelyn Waugh, which I've never read and probably won't now, the drama is one of those "between wars" classics about England's transition from a strict, overt class society to a kinder, gentler, fuzzier class society.

 

By Sheryl LeSage 

I received for review a copy of the Giant Book o' Dykes to Watch Out For (that's not really its title, but it conveys the contents pretty well), and I've been happily re-reading the cartoons in it for the last couple of weeks. I'll review it in detail next month, but I mention it because it contains a common theme, or at least a theme I used to hear all the time and now rarely seem to.

            The theme is this: gay and lesbian people are different. We're queer, in more ways than the obvious one. To protect ourselves and fully develop our communities, we should band together, live together (in the same neighborhoods, sure, but maybe even in group or communal houses). We must keep pushing for a complete upheaval of the System that wants to continue to marginalize us and deny us our rights, but we should not push for the right to serve openly in the military or to get legally married (because the military is imperialistic, and marriage is oppressive no matter who does it).