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|Packers | Richard Rodgers starter over Jared Cook?
Thu, 21 Jul 2016 16:44:40 -0700
Green Bay Packers TE Richard Rodgers is expected to start over TE Jared Cook, not just in 2016, but for the next few seasons, according to Bob McGinn of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. An advantage Rodgers has this season is that he is in better shape after weighing up to 272 pounds last year.
Fantasy Tip: The tight end position has been fairly underwhelming in Green Bay for a few years now. Rodgers and Cook could very well play as a committee together when all is said and done. Neither should be drafted as a starting fantasy tight end.
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|Packers | Richard Rodgers embracing Jared Cook
Sat, 02 Jul 2016 18:05:58 -0700
Green Bay Packers TE Richard Rodgers said he is working to improve as an all-around player, and he views the addition of TE Jared Cook as an opportunity to learn from a veteran.
Fantasy Tip: Rodgers caught eight touchdowns last year, but a healthy Jordy Nelson will push him down the pecking order in the passing game. At best, he is a backup fantasy tight end.
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|Packers | Eddie Lacy, Richard Rodgers probable
Fri, 15 Jan 2016 11:16:38 -0800
Green Bay Packers RB Eddie Lacy (rib) and TE Richard Rodgers (hip) are both probable to face the Arizona Cardinals in the divisional round Saturday, Jan. 16. Lacy practiced in full Friday, Jan. 15, while Rodgers was a limited participant.
Fantasy Tip: The Cardinals present a tough matchup for Lacy ($5,700, 11.4% of cap), but the Packers will likely lean on him often if they don't fall behind early. You could do much worse than him on FantasyScore. Rodgers ($6,000, 12.0% of cap) could be relied on more as a safety blanket with Davante Adams out.
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|Packers | Richard Rodgers still limited
Thu, 14 Jan 2016 15:11:44 -0800
Green Bay Packers TE Richard Rodgers (hip) was limited in practice Thursday, Jan. 14.
Fantasy Tip: Rodgers ($6,000, 12.0% of cap) is coming off a stellar outing in the wild-card round of the playoffs last week. He could have another solid outing this weekend, especially with more targets possibly coming his way with Davante Adams expected to sit. Plus, the Arizona Cardinals were mediocre at best against the tight end position this season.
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|Packers | Eddie Lacy, Richard Rodgers limited
Wed, 13 Jan 2016 14:19:37 -0800
Green Bay Packers RB Eddie Lacy (ribs) and TE Richard Rodgers (hip) were limited in practice Wednesday, Jan. 13.
Fantasy Tip: Lacy ($5,700, 11.4% of cap) did very little with his 13 carries versus the Washington Redskins last week, gaining just 34 yards on the ground. He added two catches for seven yards, but he's just too risky be seriously consider starting this week against the Arizona Cardinals, who were not accommodating at all to running backs this season. As for Rodgers ($6,000, 12.0%), he had a great game last week, tallying seven catches for 59 yards and a score. That line broke him out of a three-game slump, and he's not a bad play this week either.
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|Packers | Richard Rodgers disappears
Sun, 10 Jan 2016 18:36:59 -0800
Green Bay Packers TE Richard Rodgers posted two catches for just 11 yards in the NFC Wild Card Game Sunday, Jan. 10, against the Washington Redskins. He was targeted four times.
Fantasy Tip: Rodgers posted underwhelming numbers in the final quarter of the regular season, and it carried over into the postseason. He was limited to one grab for two yards on three targets in Week 16 against the Arizona Cardinals, next week's opponent.
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|Packers | Richard Rodgers post 59 yards, TD
Sun, 03 Jan 2016 22:55:16 -0800
Green Bay Packers TE Richard Rodgers posted a game-high seven receptions with 59 yards and a touchdown in the Week 17 game against the Minnesota Vikings. He was targeted eight times.
Fantasy Tip: Rodgers has scored three touchdowns over the past five games, but he had just three receptions for 12 yards and a score in his past three games entering play. Still, now that the playoffs start next week Rodgers will be a solid mid-tier FantasyScore option.
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|Packers | Richard Rodgers disappears
Sun, 27 Dec 2015 20:43:05 -0800
Green Bay Packers TE Richard Rodgers had just one reception for two yards in the Week 16 game against the Arizona Cardinals. He was targeted three times.
Fantasy Tip: Rodgers posted 146 yards with that Hail Mary touchdown miracle Dec. 3 against the Detroit Lions. In the next three games he has just one reception in each game, totaling three catches for 12 yards and a touchdown. Ouch.
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|Packers | Richard Rodgers posts 146 yards
Thu, 03 Dec 2015 22:39:10 -0800
Green Bay Packers TE Richard Rodgers caught eight passes for 146 yards and one touchdown against the Detroit Lions in Week 13.
Fantasy Tip: Rodgers has not done much this season but had a breakout game in Week 13. He has caught at least four receptions in four of his last five games but probably is not a great fantasy option moving forward.
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|Packers | GB offense lacking speed
Wed, 11 Nov 2015 09:10:25 -0800
The Green Bay Packers have the slowest team in the league when it comes to skill positions in the passing game. The combined average 40-yard dash time of WRs Randall Cobb (4.55 seconds), Davante Adams (4.56), James Jones (4.6) plus TE Richard Rodgers (4.87) ranks as a league-worst 4.65 seconds. One of the biggest reasons the Packers receivers can't get open consistently this year is because of their lack of speed, according to an NFL scout. The loss of WR Jordy Nelson and his 4.51-second 40-yard dash has slowed this offense down. WRs Jeff Janis and Ty Montgomery are much faster, but neither is a top three receiver for the team right now, and Montgomery has missed the last two games with an ankle injury.
Fantasy Tip: As Demovsky notes, the biggest thing hurting this aerial game is the absence of Nelson as one of Aaron Rodgers' ($8,800, 17.6% of cap) favorite go-to targets. Rodgers will stay afloat but shouldn't be considered an elite QB1 week in and week out. This weekend against the Detroit Lions he should at least be able to put up respectable numbers for those that pay up for him on FantasyScore.
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Digital comics | To celebrate One Piece's new Guinness World Record, Shueisha's Shonen Jump+ digital manga app has released the entire July 1997 issue of Weekly Shonen Jump for free. That's the issue that launched Eiichiro Oda's wildly successful fantasy adventure. The publisher has also unveiled a One Piece app (in Japanese only) that updates daily with a new chapter in color, starting from the very beginning of the series. [Anime News Network]
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DC Comics has provided ROBOT 6 at an exclusive first look at Green Lantern #38, by Robert Venditti and Admira Wijaya.
Although the third act of the "Godhead" crossover is still playing across the Green Lantern books, this issue finds Hal Jordan returning to Earth for some rest and relaxation. However, judging by the solicitation text — to say nothing of history — he likely has little chance of finding either.
The issue, which features covers by Billy Tan and Doug Mahnke, goes on sale Jan. 7.
Following DC Comics' solicitations over the past few months has been fairly intriguing. The company's West Coast move in early 2015 looms over all its actions, and makes it hard to gauge whether a new series or new creative team is a long-term commitment or a brief burst of experimentation. Moreover, that makes it tempting to say that anything you don't like — or, for that matter, anything you do like — might be gone by April.
Oh, well. A little paranoia can't hurt, but we're not here to talk about that. Open a window to the November solicits and read along!
November brings new creative teams for Wonder Woman (the Finches and Richard Friend), Superman/Wonder Woman (Peter Tomasi and Doug Mahnke) and Supergirl (Mike Johnson, Kate Perkins and Emanuela Lupacchino). I'm still in wait-and-see mode on the Finches. However, after several years of reading Tomasi and Mahnke's work, I feel like I know what's coming from them. S/WW should look great, as Mahnke is no stranger to either Superman or Wonder Woman, having drawn JLA and various issues of the New 52 Justice League. I suppose I'm cautiously optimistic about Tomasi, because this is the sort of book that plays to his strengths. He's good at reconciling and unifying different perspectives on characters, and that's pretty much what S/WW has always had to overcome. Ironically, it'll probably be less of a concern in the absence of Azzarello and Chiang, but I suspect Tomasi will keep those elements around.
This week DC Comics released four more annuals, three of which are set in the past and one of which is a big, bridging chapter in an ongoing plot line. All are penned by the regular writers of their series, and are $4.99 for 38 pages. What else do you need to know?
Oh, who made them, what they're about and whether they're any good? Oh, sure, I can tell you that …
Batwoman Vol. 3: World's Finest (DC Comics): It's difficult to talk about this comic without also discussing the announced departure of its creative team which, like several others that have worked on DC's New 52, left amid quite public complaints of editorial interference.
As an auteur-driven book starring a relatively new character that's barely been drawn by anyone other than artist and co-writer J.H. Williams III, the whole affair strikes me as strange, as Williams seems to be at least as big a factor in the book's continued existence as the word "Bat" in its title. And it's stranger still he and co-writer W. Haden Blackman are only now reaching the breaking point, as from a reader's perspective, DC appeared to have pretty much left them alone to do their own thing; like Grant Morrison's Batman Incorporated and the Geoff Johns-written portions of Green Lantern, this book seems set in its own universe and is sort of impossible to integrate into the New 52 if one thinks about it for too long (with "too long" being "about 45 seconds").
Regularly cited as one of the best of DC's current crop of comics, Batwoman is definitely the company's best-looking, and most intricately, even baroquely designed and illustrated. As for the word half of the story equation, I found Batwoman — and this volume in particular — to be extremely strange, even weird, more than I found it to be good.
The first part of "Trinity War" (in last week's Justice League #22) relied rather significantly on the changes the New 52 relaunch facilitated: Superman, Wonder Woman, and Billy Batson/Shazam (hereinafter "Billy/Shazam," or maybe just "Captain Marvel") each acted in ways incompatible with long relationships.
In the old days, Superman and Wonder Woman would have been close friends, Superman and Captain Marvel would have had a unique (almost mentor-protegé) relationship, and Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel would at least have had some Greek mythology in common. However, the main conflicts of "TW" Part 1 depended on Wonder Woman being more of a warrior than an ambassador, Superman trusting her hostility, and Billy/Shazam not knowing either of them that well. As such, it appeared to exemplify the freedom a relaunch confers, specifically to ignore the restrictions of previous developments to put these characters quickly on opposing sides.
In other words, one might reasonably have seen Part 1 as a) realizing the New 52 allowed for a particular Shocking Event and b) working backward to create the conditions that would lead to said Event. "Because we can do this, how do we do it?"
Hello everyone, Happy Memorial Day weekend to America, and welcome one and all to What Are You Reading? This week we are joined by special guests Brandon Montclare and Amy Reeder, the creative team behind Halloween Eve and the upcoming Rocket Girl. I spoke to them earlier this month about Rocket Girl, which surpassed its Kickstarter goal but you still have some time to get in on the action and rewards.
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Who's your Green Lantern writer?
If you started reading the series in the '60s, odds are it was John Broome. He didn't write every Green Lantern story of Hal Jordan's first decade, but he was there for the character's introduction (in September-October 1959's Showcase #22), and he lasted until March 1970's Green Lantern #75.
If you joined the Corps in the the '70s, your Green Lantern writer was Denny O'Neil, who had already written a few GL stories before getting the regular gig with the landmark Issue 76. He guided the feature through some rocky patches — including the book's cancellation, its time as a backup feature in The Flash and its 1976 relaunch — before finally taking a bow with June 1980's Issue 129.
The '80s saw a parade of writers, including Marv Wolfman, Mike Barr, Len Wein and Steve Englehart (and in GL's time as an Action Comics Weekly feature, Jim Owsley/Christopher Priest and Peter David). Each made his own contribution, be it Hal's exile from Earth, John Stewart's star turn, the Guardians' sabbatical, or the enigmatic Lord Malvolio. The early '90s belonged to the neo-Silver Age stylings of Gerard Jones, and the balance of the decade was all Ron Marz and Kyle Rayner. Starting in 2000, Judd Winick took on Kyle for three years, then Ben Raab wrote a few issues, and Marz came back for one last crack at his creation.
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More than three months after teasing that he and his Green Lantern collaborator would reteam on "a new project later this year," this morning Geoff Johns made it official: Artist Doug Mahnke will join him on Justice League of America.
The announcement arrives in a farewell message from the writer in today's Green Lantern #20, which marks the end of a nine-year run that began with 2004's Green Lantern: Rebirth. After praising artists Ethan Van Sciver, Ivan Reis and Joe Prado, Johns continues, "And Doug Mahnke … he's the current superstar I work with every month on Green Lantern and have for years now. Doug, you're one of the most amazing and unique artists in the business. Your power, grit and sense of wonder can be seen at its very best in Green Lantern #20. I'm fortunate to continue working with Doug as we head over to Justice League of America."
Lately I've been pretty complimentary of Geoff Johns and Doug Mahnke's work on Green Lantern. Honestly, this is something of a shock. It's not that I don't like Johns, Mahnke, or GL — far from it — but the book has sneaked up on me, going from a nice habit to a must-read, and the new Lantern has a lot to do with it.
Green Lantern Simon Baz debuted in September's Issue 0 as an Arab-American caught up in various schemes, who of course demonstrated the ability to overcome great fear. He wears a ring containing messages from the dead-ish Hal Jordan and Sinestro, but he carries a gun in case the ring fails him; the first fellow Lantern he encounters is B'dg, the extraterrestrial squirrel. Simon endures it all with courage and spirit, and in short order he's kicked GL into another gear.
Simon's introductory arc concludes this week — sort of, SPOILERS FOLLOW — with Green Lantern Corps Annual #1, the final installment of "Rise of the Third Army." However, this just paves the way for "Wrath of the First Lantern," which goes for the next couple of months. After that, April's Lantern titles may not be part of an overarching story — at least, not one with a "_____ of the [Numbered] _____" title — but these plot threads apparently won't be resolved before then, either.
Hello and welcome to What Are You Reading?, where the Robot 6 crew shares their picks for the Royal Rumble … I mean, talks about what comics we've read recently. Today our special guest is Landry Walker, writer of Danger Club, Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures in the Eighth Grade, Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Little Gloomy, Tron and more.
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Happy Veterans Day and welcome to What Are You Reading?, our weekly look at the comics, books and other things we've been perusing of late. Today our special guest is Brady Sullivan, the writer of Death Springs, a free weekly webcomic with artist JC Grande (Image's Johnny Monster). He also has several print projects currently out or hitting the shelves soon, including the recently released action/satire Revolution Aisle 9.
To see what Brady and the Robot 6 crew have been reading, click below …
Happy Mother's Day and welcome to another edition of What Are You Reading? Today our special guest is Ryan Ferrier, who I spoke to a couple of weeks ago about his comic Tiger Lawyer and recently kicked off an Indie GoGo project to fund the second issue.
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dude, it's fake, just like their CEO "dying" (which they had to admit to the SEC was also fake)
Don't you dare apologize. Or stop. People need to feel the horror, and the hypocrisy.
Dan, your having a child has brought out great things in you.
Dan, You're missing the word out in the Texas link.
This is a terrible story and proof you should need more testing to be a parent than a driver.
I have no problem with your "mother and father" posts. That said, you might want to find an unpaid proofreading intern to review posts. I know you're busy and all, but...
Damn right Dan.
Most murderers, rapists, child molesters, serial killers, frat boy drunkards, bad parents and homicidal U.S. Presidents are heterosexual. The vast majority of such creeps, in the Western World anyway, are heterosexual white males. The very notion that gay people have a lock on immortality is such utter nonsense. Keep the stories coming, and I wish you Godspeed in striking your target.
Don't apologize. The clincher for me is that the other side wouldn't think twice about howling bloody murder should a gay parent do anything even remotely this bad.
Keep 'em coming. With Paris and Celebrity Gossip the cornerstone of corporate news, this blog (and others) keep my faith in journalism afloat.
The quirks and obsessions of Slog writers (e.g. your daily exposition on child abuse, Mudede's obsession with rectangular forms, ECB's bike nazi posts) is what keeps me coming back. Don't ever change.
Don't succumb to the playa hatas!
Great post Dan! And @4, I have never understood why you we test for everything except for having kids. Some of the shit that Dan has posted makes me favor a license before you can have kids.
Whatever else you might need to apologize for, these posts aren't among 'em.
Your points are right on, and when you want to, you articulate them well. But again, pointing out murderers and child-abusers and drawing the link to your argument, makes you look as ridiculous as those you hate so much. You could convince people to see things your way, if you took the high road. You have a large audience across the country, and could reach and influence a lot of people. But you don't, because of this stupid shit.
It's just the same 20 Seattle homos that post ass-kissing comments in your shitty little slog. Get over yourself.
Your argument for the means sums up to 'the ends really justify the means.' I agree with the ends. Kids deserve good parents, and I don't know how someone's twisted thoughts on religion manage to cloud that obvious truth. You'll keep posting these stories, but I don't think they convince anyone any more than AIDS rates among hetros would convince some religious nut that gay sex was okay. The fact that there are bad straight parents out there doing horrendous things is not going to convince anyone who thinks that gay couples can't be parents. I think it would be much more convincing to post stories about unwanted kids waiting for adoption or suffering in foster care. Equally upsetting, but a lot more to the point that kids are being denied good parents by someone foisting their religious beliefs where they're not wanted (and probably constitutionally not allowed).
As you say, it's just distressing to read these stories about kids your child's age. In the end, you're convinced that it's effective and warranted. I guess I hope that you're right, but I feel as though it just feeds into this repulsive cable news phenomenon of Nancy Grace taking the high moral ground while making a fortune regaling on the details of the murders of pregnant woman. You are not some ghoul profiting off these stories, but she would similarly find a justification for what she's doing if she were ever required to defend her slimeball 'journalism'.
The power of Christ compels you!
I dunno, kinda sucks having to be scarred with that shit just because you want to keep up what's going on around town. Like you say, we're all with you anyway. I don't think it's worth bringing us down.
Yesterday, I learned that guitarist Rod Poole was murdered in LA. A man stabbed him outside of some burger place, then the stabber's girlfriend kicked Poole in the head after he'd collapsed, all in front of their 4-year-old son...after finishing their Mother's Day meal.
Yet another recent story about some really shitty parents, with a long history of violence:
@12 - "I think it would be much more convincing to post stories about unwanted kids waiting for adoption or suffering in foster care. Equally upsetting, but a lot more to the point that kids are being denied good parents by someone foisting their religious beliefs where they're not wanted (and probably constitutionally not allowed)."
I think this statement is right on the money. You could find stories that inform people about gay parenting and cast it in a good light, instead of trying to cast hetero parenting in a bad light. You'll never win anyone over with these gruesome and tragic posts.
I fully sympathize with your goals with the ECDAMAF series, but it concerns me a little that hyping stories like this is indirectly helping nurture our nation's collective case of Mean World Syndrome. This nation is already entirely too prone to moral panic over this or that due to media overexposure of gruesome tabloid crime.
By all means please keep posting the "Every Child Needs...." articles.
I am collecting them all to show to homophobes and other bigots when they spew their lies about queer parents.
No post. That judge should be removed for incompetence.
as the parent of a 7 month old I know the personal raw shock that these news items bring.
keep posting them till the system changes. America is a nation based on equality. If the system keeps denying this, if citizens need it shoved down their throats, so be it.
I love you Dan. You're an important voice.
(one of the 20 seattle homos).
Dan, keep 'em coming. You are right on - so long as we hear how bad gay parents are for children, we need to keep getting these stories out and in context. Don't give in to the whiners on here who are afraid of being "scarred" by reading about the harsh reality of the world.
Dan, I accept your apology -- sort of. I still don't agree with your tactics, and I agree with 12 that they won't get anywhere with the people who need to hear about good gay parents. But I am glad to hear you acknowledge the painful side of this. And like I've heard so many times before, it's your blog and you'll post what you want to.
So many of these stories are about domestic violence. Can we have a simultaneous PSA about DV to go along with the one about straight sexual orientation not being a prescription for good parenting? That would be relevant, too.
For now, if you're reading this in WA and feeling unsafe or controlled in your relationship, you can call the DV hotline at 800-562-6025. You don't have to be ready to leave, just talk about how to keep yourself and your children safe and alive. Nationally, the hotline is 800-799-7233. Good luck.
I'm going to have to give up Slog because of these posts. It's not you, it's me -- I'm eight months pregnant and the hormones are doing a number on me, and *every single time* I run across one of your "every child" posts it sends me into a weeping fit and a tailspin that lasts most of the day. Of course there's no reason you should tailor your content to the needs of crazy pregnant ladies, but I'm sorry to lose this blog, which I have otherwise enjoyed.
I do think the relentless assault of gruesome horror that all of us face from the daily news is not at all good for our collective psyche, and I wonder if maybe you would consider dialing it back a notch, like maybe not putting the most horrifying details right up front but instead behind a cut? (I can't just skip the post because you tend to put the worst parts in boldface type, and my eye is involuntarily drawn there.) The one about the girl who was literally boiled alive still wakes me up at night, and it seems really unnecessary to force these things on your readers. I don't believe a person (even a non-crazy-pregnant-lady) can read about child torture every single freaking day and not come out a little harmed by the experience.
I think both are needed. Dan's more visceral approach and some kind of similar list saying what gay parents are doing right. Attack on two sides...
Yeah, Shannon, ignorance sure is bliss.
I'd like to mention that I'm a straight Canadian--I've never even been to Seattle--and I'd be thrilled if the rest of my days might be spent kissing Dan's ass through comments on the Slog.
These posts are important--they matter. They mean that instead of just getting that sick feeling in our collective stomach when we read the details we think about the real implications of the hateful rhetoric being spewed out daily, and further, we think about what must be done starting now. It isn't enough to tear up. It isn't enough to hug your children tighter.
Dan, your words are so encouraging. You put ol' lady Landers to shame. Thank you for your column. Thank you for your blog. Thank you for standing up to say what the world needs to hear. You give me hope.
Now, you see Dan. You're scaring off your readers and tormenting innocent pregnant ladies with this garbage.
But at least your cult of "20 Seattle homos" has another opportunity to stroke you off. And that's really the whole point of your Slog, isn't it Dan?
I don't always agree with your tactics, Dan, but on this one I do. No one else calls them out. You seem to be the only one countering the ECNAMAF rant. You may be preaching to the choir on here but the choir is then forwarding to their "head in the sand" Christian friends and family who only say privately "they give Christians a bad name, we're not all like that" and say nothing publicly.
So I say keep it up. And to those who don't like the posts I say... It's not like they aren't clearly titled. If you don't like it then when you see "Every Child, etc" by Dan Savage you know not to keep reading. Enjoy your sand. Hope you're able to breath down there.
Uh...dude. I can't believe people are talking about a "license to have children" in response to THIS post, of all things!
Get your heads out of the sand and look at the world around you! If the right to raise children was regulated, do you know who would be guaranteed to NOT qualify? GAYS AND LESBIANS. And probably non-Christians, next. Oh, and those pesky people of color.
Jesus. Why do people express such blind faith in the system with the same breath they're using to complain about the evils it's perpetrating?
So you'll keep preachin' to the choir as long as there are assholes. You'll keep feeding the hate-wank against straight people, and Christians, as long as there are backwards ignant stupid judges.
Sounds like an endless war of terror to me.
(There I go with that hot-button over the top rhetoric. Darn effective, innit?)
@12 has it right. I've said it before and I'll say it again (to no one's surprise): These posts do not prove the point you are trying to make Dan. The stories in them are NOT related to the issue.
If you were arguing that stupid, violent, crack-addicted rednecks should not be allowed to have kids, then you'd be on track. But there is nothing in these stories that says if gay people were allowed to be parents in all states by all people and laws, microwaved babies would be a thing of the past.
Tell us please, what is the connection between fucked up rednecks who boil babies and the idea that gay people can be good parents? It seems to me that your posts are more likely to be arguing that Hets can not not be good parents.
In short, you're making a specious argument with these posts. Anyone who believes that gay people should not be allowed to be parents can poke holes in it big enough to drive a mac truck through because the content is not related to the debate. You'd serve your cause SO MUCH MORE if (as suggested above) you highlighted stories of kids who want to be adopted but aren't next to stories of loving, stable gay people who desperately want to be parents but are getting turned away.
Basically Dan, I think you're getting sidetracked by your feelings when you see these terrible stories. As you say, you imagine awful things happening to your kid (god forbid) and stop thinking clearly... Take a moment and step back from these posts and the argument you're making... really examine what you are trying to say and then look at how you're saying it. You're a smart guy, you edit a newspaper, I bet you'll see that you're not telling the story you pitched.
Hmm...in addition, allow me to add my voice to those protesting the inclusion of gruesome horrors in the Slog. Ahem:
Dan, I don't like that there are bad things in the world. Since we all know that ignoring them is the best way to deal with them and make them go away, stop making it hard for us to do that.
Have to agree with the devil here. Your arguments are about as effective as the baseball team you've got out there, Dan. Go back to the dildos and chocolate anus posts.
Charlie, you're a dumbass. An emotional argument like this is one of the most effective that can be made against the idea that straight parents are somehow intrinsically better for kids than gay ones. You're trying to poke holes in it because it bothered you for some reason, you're just being too much of a pussy to say why. Are you disturbed by the images, or is your "straight pride" somehow offended?
@33 - My objection has to do not with a desire to ignore gruesome horrors, but with the fact that they receive disproportionate media attention already. We're already assaulted endlessly with stories like this in the media, such that Americans perceive the world around them as being far more hostile and gruesome than it really is. It becomes unhealthy in huge doses. Dan's using sensationalism to sell a political point - a good one, IMHO - but the effects of this kind of media treatment don't end there.
Dude, you're missing the point in a big way. You don't get the connection? (Yes, that is sort of obvious.)
You're trying to see some grande parallel but you're failing to connect the dots.
This is the point:
1. Children need more than a mother and a father.
2. The capacity to raise children /= one parent has a penis and the other a vagina.
3. Worthy gay couples are denied the right to raise children by virtue of the fact that they are gay, while criminally unworthy straight couples are granted the right by virtue of the fact that they are straight.
4. This is insane logic.
5. Children need more than a mother and a father. Children need love.
The point is that this is wrong, what is happening is wrong, and the conservative/fundamentalist rhetoric would have you believe that being a good parent is somehow inherent in heterosexuals and not possible in homosexuals. That's all. How is that not clear?
I am neither a resident of Seattle, nor a homo, but I have become addicted to reading SLOG - especially you, Dan. I wish your voice was included in mainstream news. I'd love to watch you kick CNN's ass.
These stories are horrific, but it makes me wonder: Has this brutality always happened or do we just hear about it more often now? I grew up in the secrecy of my parents' generation and not even the doctor who treated me on several occasions ever reported the obvious abuse. I don't know if reporting these stories will do anything to change the "seemingly normal, happy, married, traditional, straight" men & women who perpetrate murder and abuse but I'm grateful to you, Dan, for printing them and for all the good you do. I wish there were more people like you running this country.
Lee - "hate wank" against straight people? Boy, are you missing the point. Dan's perfectly respectful of straight people - which is quite a big thing considering how much crap gay people have to take from certain straight people. He's just decided to point out that if they wanted to, gays COULD fight with the same dirty tactics that anti-gay hatemongers use.
The good side always needs more assholes if it's going to win. Thanks, Dan, for being good, honest, brave, and a complete sonofabitch.
You're right, and yet you're so wrong. Gruesome news is covered disproportionately, and it is done in a disgusting, fear-mongering fashion that only seems to promote this voyeuristic 24/hr news culture. That said, that isn't what is happening here. Dan is using these stories to make a point (albeit with a heavy hand) and, more importantly, to deconstruct the idiotic argument that heterosexuals are capable parents because they are heterosexual. Crucify Nancy Grace, write a stern letter to Fox, but don't hold Dan accountable for a crime he isn't committing.
In the 80's, homosexuality was underground, and homophobia was pretty much taken for granted. In the 90's, gays were suddently everywhere - on tv, in the military, at our workplaces, playing guitar for The Who - and mainstream attitudes softened.
Visibility is the most effective weapon you have. It's a lot easier to persecute a faceless abstraction than a an actual human being. Accordingly, Dan, I think your book and articles about parenting help the cause more than this series. So do news articles about gay dads(complete with cute pictures) like the one you linked to.
Maybe you should start a series called "Gay Family of the Week".
Do NOT apologize. If people want to remain blissfully ignorant, they can scroll right past these posts. But these posts NEED to be made.
Of course these posts don't support the point--and who cares? I still find them highly entertaining. Of course, I really don't like children. Or parents.
Now, if we could get some posts about torturing cats, and how that proves the superiority of dogs, I'd really be over the moon with happiness.
"Tormenting pregnant women"? Wow. I'm so glad to see patriarchal frail women stereotypes perpetuated on this blog.
If you, as a woman, are having so much trouble with your hormones that you can't stop crying at the drop of a hat, you have one of several choices: talk to your doctor, change your lifestyle and avoid "trigger" factors until your chemicals are back to normal, or just accept that this is how you're going to be. I experience this problem myself and I sympathize, but I know that it's not the responsibility of the world to censor itself for my sake. I'm a fucking adult and I take responsibility for myself.
There you go, Dan - "Gay Family of the Week". Though, I suspect something like that isn't quite sesationalistic enough for you. It also doesn't do much for the little "pissed-off homo" niche you've carved for yourself.
Goober - so, you find posts about murdered children amusing because you don't like kids? Congratulations on being the biggest fucktard posting here. I hope you lose your testicles in a freak liquid nitrogen freezing accident.
"Congratulations on being the biggest fucktard posting here."
Yes, Lauren from Seattle. Yes you are.
Oh, wait....you were talking about someone else....nevermind. Carry on.
Dan makes a point with these posts of his and anyways, top level SLOG posts are is playground... Dan, keep fighting the Good Fight with the weapons you have, not with the weapons some readers with more delicate sensibilities wish you had.
Lauren @44:
Lighten up. The nice pregnant lady explicitly says that it's her personal problem, and she doesn't expect the posts to stop on her account, and that she is avoiding Slog precisely because these posts are a trigger for her. Having some hormone issues yourself perhaps?
""Pissed-off homo' niche'"? My god, you're an entitled little asshole! Last time I checked, the homos had DAMNED GOOD REASON to be pissed off!
You're just jealous because you don't get to be a member of an oppressed group. Kinda like the kid who's jealous of the attention his cancer-patient sibling is getting.
Do the world a favor: go see a shrink and sort out your mommy-didn't-pay-attention-to-me issues before you think you have some business ridiculing someone for fighting for their rights.
1. I wasn't replying to the pregnant woman. I was replying to the brave knight who fancied himself her defender.
2. Even though I wasn't replying to her, she clearly felt Dan should feel compelled to tone it down or she wouldn't have bothered to complain, would she?
Wait a minute -- there are only 20 Seattle homos?
So I finally! get the reasons that Christians hate The Devil: He's an asshat moron.
And for the record, Dan is beloved in Seattle (and many other places, obviously...) by all types of people you backward ass fuck.
I just want someone, somewhere, to find me an example of a gay family who adopted their children and then slew them all in a fit of murder/suicide. I have yet to ever hear of such a case. Yet, in nice, "normal", heterosexual families, that happens so goddam often that it barely even rates a bit in the local news.
People who go to the lengths that a gay couple - particularly men - have to go to to become parents rarely seem to treat their children like used Kleenex. On the other hand, for those for whom popping out pups is a routine yearly occurrence, might as well toss 'em in the microwave when they're not little and cute anymore.
Having been reared by lesbians back in the Very Closeted Era - and having turned out basically fine despite not having had that all-important Daddy Figure - I appreciate these posts, myself, because they point out the cognitive dissonance of those who truly believe that having an odd number of innies and outies is the only qualification parents require.
Hey, you can't talk to me like that - I'm the devil damn it! And how do you know if I'm oppressed anyways?
Just because Dan's a homo doesn't mean he needs to act like a dramatic crybaby all the time. But the original point was that these posts detract from his argument and are just plain ignorant. They just are. Hammering out 20 comments in this thread won't change that, Lauren.
"Congratulations on being the biggest fucktard posting here."
Yes, Lauren from Seattle. Yes you are.
Oh, wait....you were talking about someone else....nevermind. Carry on.
Well, this is the most pathetic and hamhanded attempt at a clever turn-around insult I've seen in at least a month. Got anything else?
I don't much care what a asshole like Goober thinks of me or himself. What I do care about is the fact that we live in a world where someone can make a statement like that and not get called on it.
I was waiting for one of you to bring up the Benoit story, one of the saddest, sickest tales in the history of a sad, sick wrestling business (and that's coming from a guy who grew up a fan!)... and it sucks to me that it's only perceived place on Slog is as exhibit A in discussing the merits of Every Child Needs a Mother and Father.
One of the wrestling business' hardest working and supposedly honorable men (in a business is dishonorable, dirty bastards) went home and killed his son and wife before hanging himself, right before a major show, literally out of nowhere. Can we discuss that a little bit, plz?
I have no problem with these posts. They get the point across that "heterosxuality doesn't guarentee good parenting". If you want to get across the point that "gay parents are just as good (if not better) than hetero parents", do something like the gay family of the week idea.
I personally think the latter would do more towards changing opinions, but it's probably a moot point anyways on this blog since you are preaching to the choir.
You don't hear about gay parents slaughtering their children because nearly all parents are heterosexual. Seriously, outside of Seattle and San Fran, what do you think the overall percentage of gay parents is? Probably somewhere between zero and one percent.
On another note, have you ever wondered if all that rain in Seattle is really God pissing on all of you?
(in a business OF dishonorable...)
What the hell is with all my typos lately?
It pisses me off that I once say an "every child" post that referenced the pain of the family who birthed premature babies who were dying...and it was implied they were bad parents because of their unwillingness to abort.
1. It was a cheap shot at a tragic situation.
2. If people want to wave their pro-choice flags they have to realize it means everyone has a choice, no matter what that choice is.
3. The intent of the parents was not to do harm.
I know it wasn't a post with your byline, but it was your agenda being borrowed by another on the slog.
I think there is a great deal of hyprocrisy in the world and I think it's great that you point these things out. I think situations are sickeningly tragic and sad. I hope that more is done about them sooner rather than later.
But I walked away with a very bad taste that day and I haven't been able to shake that one.
I think Goober was indulging in something called "morbid humour." Cancer jokes, anyone? If not, hey, I'm sorry. But we all crack terrible, tasteless, tasteless jokes sometimes. Or often. Or .... constantly.
Hey, you can't talk to me like that - I'm the devil damn it! And how do you know if I'm oppressed anyways?
Just because Dan's a homo doesn't mean he needs to act like a dramatic crybaby all the time. But the original point was that these posts detract from his argument and are just plain ignorant. They just are. Hammering out 20 comments in this thread won't change that, Lauren.
Well, that insult is an improvement. Good for you. For the record, I'm hammering out 20 posts because I'm unemployed, pathetic and bored. Have fun with that. If you need more fodder, I'm also passive-aggressive, have bad foot odor and a recurring facial skin condition, and I bite my nails.
Maybe you are a member of an oppressed group. I'm just guessing that if you were, we'd be seeing some form of argument as to why your oppressed group is more oppressed than the gays. Perhaps we still will.
Dan doesn't act like a dramatic crybaby. He's got a good lot in life and he knows it. That doesn't make his cause any less important.
And these posts don't detract from his argument. What they detract from is polite discourse. They should. I'm sick of people thinking that being impolite is the greatest of sins and that being nice is somehow synonymous with being affective.
He's simply telling the truth as he experiences it. Are you a parent? Can you imagine what it feels like to have that kind of devotion to a child? Can you also imagine what it feels like to be told, over and over again, that you are unfit to raise your child while being bombarded with media examples of the "fit" class of parents doing things to their kids that chill your blood to even think about?
"I think Goober was indulging in something called "morbid humour." Cancer jokes, anyone? If not, hey, I'm sorry. But we all crack terrible, tasteless, tasteless jokes sometimes. Or often. Or .... constantly."
In that case, I was obviously doing the same when I suggested he should get his balls frozen off.
Have a sense of humor.
@35, Lauren, you couldn't be more wrong about my argument.... I don't need to try and poke holes in Dan's argument, it is just one big whole. Yeah, reading about people killing babies bothers me. Dam right it fucking bothers me, but that's not why I am trying to stop this line of reasoning.
Since you asked so politely, I want Dan to stop posting these kinds of stories as an argument for allowing gay people to parent because it is a dumb reason that has no relation to the debate and I think Dan's platform could be used to advance actual sensible arguments for gays to be parents. That clear enough for you? Or are you going to continue insulting me now and putting words in my mouth? Anything else I need to explain or do you think you can find someone else to try and intimidate by calling them names?
@37.... yeah, you're absolutely fucking right. the system is wrong. Insanely fucking wrong. I could not agree more. the point should be made that gays should be allowed to be parents. But Dan is NOT making that point. He is making the point that there is a fucked up system in place for protecting children from abusive, insane parents.
My question is: How does 500 children killed by parents in het relationships make the point that loving gay couples should be allowed to adopt? The two are different issues.
Yes, kids need loving parents and that does not mean male and female parents. But saying that one kind of parental structure CAN be bad doesn't mean that another kind WILL be good.
@54 - Just wait. One day when gay parenting is normal and accepted, and it'll happen, these fucking things will be done by dykes and queers as well as hets. People are fucked up. Plain and simple... that's one of the reasons I think this is an idiotic argument for Dan to make.... There are less stories in the media about gay parents boiling babies than straight parents because there are fewer gay parents. Duh.
mmmmm....foot odor. Is it an aged cheese aroma, or more of a fishy stink. I've been writing in to Dan about my foot odor fetish for years now, but he never wanted to address it. Maybe he was too busy with these slog rants.
At any rate, I understand where Dan is coming from and his points are good ones. But this is the wrong way to address these issues. It is not about who is right or who is wrong. It is simply a matter of bad communication.
Geni @ 54:
I just want someone, somewhere, to find me an example of a gay family who adopted their children and then slew them all in a fit of murder/suicide. I have yet to ever hear of such a case. Yet, in nice, "normal", heterosexual families, that happens so goddam often that it barely even rates a bit in the local news.
This is the crux of why these posts are important. As someone else stated way above, all you need is one gay couple doing any of these things to their children, or even less than this (say, verbally abusing their children but not injuring them) and the Christianists would hold it up as a shining example of why gays shouldn't be parents. So I view this as a pre-emptive turnabout.
Why are we even discussing this crap? Dan is pointing these stories out to debunk the myth that mother/father parented families are inherently pure compared to LGBT parented families. What is so wrong about pointing out hypocrisy and blatant falsehood?
Yes, these need to be posted, until bigots quit with their nonsense about how gay/lesbian parents are somehow unfit and that a heterosexual couple is somehow inherently fit to raise kids.
So can we stop bickering about it, and focus some more on the respected niche entertainer who cancelled an important appearance at an important show so he could go home, strangle his wife, smother his son and then hang himself without any sort of explanation or warning signs?
Keep up the posts Dan, it raises awareness. And no, I'm not one of the "20 Seattle homos kissing Dan's ass." I'm straight, live in Orange County, California and I love Dan Savage.
You're right on the money in the first two paragraphs.
Your final point is way off base, though. His wife filed a restraining order and began divorce proceedings saying explicitly that she feared for her own and the minor child's safety. She later retracted the court filings. Based on this knowledge and the resulting situation, one can only assume that this is a classic case of spousal abuse. Those are your warning signs. As far as explanations go--does it really matter? Are explanations of any value now? They're all dead. It would be nice, however, if the niche market to which you refer (and in which he worked) would stop eulogizing him like he was a fucking war hero.
Steroids make you do crazy shit, Gomez. Does that story really sound all that unbelievable to you?
But you're right, let's get back to discussing the important shit...like Lauren's foot odor. So, hey, what do you say we hook up some time Lauren? And maybe you can refrain from washing those aromatic tootsies between now and then, eh? :p
Ryno @ 7 says, "Don't apologize. The clincher for me is that the other side wouldn't think twice about howling bloody murder should a gay parent do anything even remotely this bad."
Being a dreaded hetero, I guess I must be "the other side" in this little equation Ryno has cooked up. Gee, there's no divisive behavior there, eh?
Regardless of that, I howl just as loudly as gay parents when true equality is being hindered or trounced by mainstream society, when abuse is perpetrated against innocents. Does my voice count for less, Ryno? Would you rather that heteros just not join you in your quest for equality? Because right about now I'm thinking you, whether straight or gay, should not be raising ANYbody's children if that's your perspective.
Would still love to see a few successful gay parenting stories in the Slog, Dan.
@59: It rains here to keep people like you out. *Oh no! Not water! Waaaaahhh!*
And if anything, the rain is tears from Zeus, crying cause no one worships his imaginary ass anymore.
One of the main principles of minority influence is the minority disrupts the established norm and produces doubt and uncertainty in the mind of the majority. These posts do this - they draw attention to what happens to some children with a mother and father, disrupting the white bread fantasy of a nice mom and dad raising good kids and no one ever getting hurt.
These posts may not answer the questions, and they may not explain *why* gay parents should be afforded the same rights as straight, but they do question a misconception of the majority. That is the point. This isn't the only thing Dan is doing to advance the cause, it's just one facet of it - yes, it's the loud, shocking facet that doesn't get invited to parties, but it plays a role.
CNN headline:
"Steroids found at wrestler's house of death"
I agree with @65. The point is that you are losing when your argument is that the end supports any means. That's the logic of these horrible people who go to military funerals with 'God hates fags' signs. The stunt becomes the point and the meaning is completely lost.
I guess if the argument against gays as parents is that they are going to slaughter their kids, then these are valid posts. If the argument is that the won't be good parent, then I think it would be more effective to focus on loving families and kids who are suffering waiting to be in a family like that or suffering abuse due to ignorance. For me, that's where these religious fuckwads are so obviously exposed as frauds who really have no genuine concern for the interests of kids. Who, as always, are simply using religion to collect and wield power.
I just think that any means necessary is a slippery slope to a lot of misinformation and bigotry. I realize these events happened, but when the 'news' falls into the category of idle gossip and out of the realm of usuable and actionable, then it's just sensational and gross (i.e., Nancy Grace).
Chris Benoit, like just about every other wrestler that came before him, has been doing heavy amounts of steroids since the 90's. Why didn't he do something like this before now? Why aren't there many more horrific incidents like these?
It's too easy of a copout to say, 'Oh, steroids, okay, nm.' There has to be at least one other unique factor at play.
I've changed my mind.
At first, I was upset at you, because it seemed you were gloating. But you are right--we need to show people that a loving gay couple beats a fucked up straight couple any day.
Keep them coming. I may not be able to read them, but keep them coming. But also forward them to these prejudiced judges.
70. Well, there you go, that would probably explain it.
And yes, the eulogies aren't very tactful given the news, but keep in mind a lot of these guys making these eulogies have idolized this guy for 15-20 years. It's kinda hard to do a 180 in a day after 15-20 years of thinking a guy is awesome.... not that it makes it acceptable, but I can see why they say what they say.
"In that case, I was obviously doing the same when I suggested he should get his balls frozen off.
Have a sense of humor."
Well, good to know we're on the same hilarious page then.
Don't stop posting these, Dan. They're also a great illustration of the plank/splinter story from the christian big book of fairy tales. (apologies to fairies everywhere)
I'm with you, Dan. Altough I'd recommend that you limit these tales to cases of abuse by heteros who are married, since if they aren't married the religowackos can say it was because they were living in sin.
Thanks Gloria.
Lauren: you're a vacuous, empty-headed, humorless cunt. And I'm quite happy in the certainty that you turn that rage inward on yourself, as well you should.
Well, if it counts for anything, I was raised by a couple of batshit crazy Christians in the Midwest in the 70s and 80s and I would have killed for other parents, especially when they have the kind of love for Dan has for his kid and not getting the shit beat out of you for looking guilty.
As it is, while I believe these posts do have a negative reinforcement value, there should also be positive reinforcement with stories that add to the pro-gay parent argument. Conditioning is more effective with positive reinforcement, after all.
Dan, I can't say I know how much this issue bothers you. Because I'm straight, and nobody's ever reflexively dismissed my validity as a parent merely because of what I do in my own bed. But I have to say that
(a) I still believe that reading details of rape and torture and murder every day does not make us more sensitive, it makes us less, and
(b) You are preaching to the choir: everybody at Slog already believes that gay parents aren't any better or worse than straight parents, and
(c) if you are going to "keep posting these horrifying stories so long as asshole judges... asshole presidential candidates... asshole religious groups... etc etc etc" then you will be posting these horrifying stories until the end of time. Ask black people if they're not still targets 40 years after the civil rights act.
Lauren: I'm having trouble understanding your condescending attitude toward those of us who don't want to read these posts. You seem to think that there is some sort of virtue in "staying informed". Why? Do you imagine that sating your curiosity is in some way helpful to the victims? You accuse us of choosing "ignorance"--do you really imagine that we live in a la-la-unicornland where the reality of child abuse never touches us? I'd ask you to consider for a moment that those most likely to find these posts "triggering", as you say, would be the large percentage of Americans who are themselves survivors of abuse. And the truth is that whether you choose to read or not is a morally neutral decision; neither does jack to make the world a better place.
To clarify, I don't think Dan should quit making these posts just to accomodate those of us with delicate sensibilities. I *do* think putting the most gruesome details behind a cut, instead of in boldface type, is an ideal solution that would keep everybody happy. Right now those of us who for whatever reason cannot deal with these posts have only one choice: stop reading Slog. If the gory descriptions were after the jump, then we could easily skip them, while those of you who enjoy them would lose nothing. It seems to me like a very easy compromise.
I would like to second Shannon's suggestion of asking Dan and his minions to adopt a policy of putting the details behind a cut. I really, really don't want to stop reading the Slog.
Let's try one more analogy. I'd agree with Andrew Sullivan that amazing strides were made on the issue of gay marriage, which seemed like a pipe dream 5 years ago. It's not over, but there's been progress.
I would guess that most people were won over by stories of committed relationships and what can happen when one doesn't have rights as a surviving beneficiary. I may be wrong, but I haven't heard anyone crediting the posting of stories of domestic abuse and murder in straight marriages. That's not to say that the divorce rate and people's experience with wedded bliss didn't factor in. Spousal abuse is pervasive, but did it prove to anyone that gay couples should be granted the right to get married?
They're getting the right because it's patently unfair to deny it, not because they're equally qualified to do it badly. People have problems, and all that's being proven here is that. Not that straight people have problems. Not that gay people don't. Just that some people are monsters. A daily dose of that lesson in the name of equal rights under the law.
I'm not sensitive, I just don't enjoy the exploitation of the pain of others for entertainment purposes. No matter what the end is, that's all that's going on here. Add whatever b.s. moralizing message, it is what it is.
While the logic might be faulty, the point remains the same. And who says this is an argument governed by logic, anyway?
After all, right-wingers claim all the time that children raised by same-sex couples are inherently fucked up, just because they are. The importance of love, respect and fairness rarely comes into play, and the gender of the parents looms large.
If these posts make the claim that children raised by hetero parents are endangered just because they are, then it's taking a page from the same illogical book.
Should these posts stop? Nope. It's important to bring attention to child murder and abuse, because our collective outrage can be powerful and mobilizing. Should the het = bad equation stop? Well, until those dykes and queers have the same opportunity to deep-fry their own bio or adopted offspring, who's to say Dan doesn't have a point?
The vetting process for adoption is thorough, including psych exams. The application for biopregnancy is a penis and a vagina. No application. No interview. No statement of intent. Just regular, God-lovin', hetero sex.
There are lots of great, straight parents out there, but children still sometimes are borne to terrible, fucked-up hets. There are a lot of great, queer parents out there...and the fucked-up, terrible queers are eliminated from the adoption process right quick.
Keep posting these. The argument against queer parents is nonsensical, the headlines get people reading, and the point of the whole experiment is to push people's acceptance of the status quo.
"My question is: How does 500 children killed by parents in het relationships make the point that loving gay couples should be allowed to adopt?"
It doesn't make that point.
The argument that there are children mistreated by straight parents is not an argument for gays to be parents.
Pointing out the many examples of children maltreated by straight parents, destroys the justification most frequently given to prevent gays from being parents. Shattering the justification is just one of many useful approaches to the real issue.
The statement "every child needs a mom and a dad" is used as a bludgeon to prevent gays from being parents. It doesn't admit of any other requirement (loving, intelligent, capable family? nope... just straight parents, one of each gender).
The real issue isn't just that gays should be allowed to adopt, but that it's kids that are important. They need a loving, thoughtful, and capable support structure to grow up well. The specific configuration of gender and orientation in that structure is substantially irrelevant.
There is no compelling argument for restricting the upbringing children to exactly one mother and one father. That argument made alone, is dangerous and exposed as shoddy thinking by the scary examples that Dan is pointing out.
"Every child needs a mom and a dad" is a distraction, mean spirited and small. Once that distraction can be put aside, we can get to creating a rational societal and governmental support structure for families.
Just to clarify things, I'm a straight, celibate Canadian, who loves Dan Savage's news media.
The man is engaged in a non violent battle for his rights in fairly hostile environment (remember I come from a land where gay marriage was legalized by the Federal Government and was left to die as an issue by the "right wingers" of the country, whereas in your country, you have Ann (fucking dumb bitchwad) Coulter...). As such, some fire, irrational and potentially non-sensical as it may be, is required in the fight.
That said, in the long run (sometimes a rather longer run than we would like) Americans seem to get it right.
Dan doesn't just get stroked by homos in Seattle and thanks to the web, his voice, which would otherwise be smothered is heard everywhere where anyone cares to listen.
Carry on brave Crusader!
The Wet One
Ann "Fucking Dump Bitchwad" Coulter, I like it.
Oy. "Dumb," even.
I think the tally is something like:
give-me-more-dead-baby-stories - 50
stop-the-sensationalism-and-focus-on-good-gay-parents - 20
you-wanna-fight-I'll-give-you-a-fight (what were we talking about, again -- feet?) - 19
complete non-sequiters - 5
So who's winning? Oh, right, the gay parents.
These stories are quite sad, but they are useful reminders that the anti-gay parent bigots out there are clueless.
I forget if you caught this story or not; it doesn't exactly fit because it's about the tragically stupid behavior of two single mothers in Pittsburgh earlier this month:
Local mothers facing manslaughter charges in the fire deaths of five children.
Completely disgusting.
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updated 01/03/2012 AT 2:55 PM ET
•originally published 01/03/2012 AT 3:00 PM ET
David Beckham isn't saying "au revoir" to L.A. anytime soon.
The Los Angeles Galaxy star, 36, recently turned down an offer to join Paris Saint-Germain's soccer club, leaving the organization's president Nasser al-Khelafi "disappointed."
But Beckham's decision was not a selfish one, as he made the choice based on "family reasons," according to PSG's sporting director, who goes by Leonardo.
"It's a shame," Leonardo was quoted as saying. "But the well-being of his family in Los Angeles and the desire to not change everything in his life weighed heavily."
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Nin, Anaïs, 1903-1977.
Henry and June.
San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, ©1986
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Overview: Drawn from the original, uncensored journals of Anais Nin, Henry and June is an intimate account of a woman's sexual awakening. It covers a single momentous year - from late 1931 to the end of 1932 - during Nin's life in Paris, when she met Henry Miller and his wife, June. She fell in love with June's beauty and Henry's writing and, soon after June's departure for New York, began a fiery affair with Henry, which liberated her sexually and morally but undermined her marriage and led her into psychoanalysis. One question dominated her thoughts: what would happen when June returned to Paris? That event took place in October 1932, leaving Nin trapped between two loves - Henry and June. Drawn from the original, uncensored journals of Anais Nin, this is an intimate account of a woman's sexual awakening.
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I first read this book when I was 14 (and had my father take it back
from me when I had to ask "what's 'urinate' mean, dad?"). Monserrat is
a master at the depiction of men at war - from his extraordinary
technical knowledge to his ability to convey the fatigue, the cross
feelings living in close quarters, the bitterness, the moments of
triumph or relief.
This film does Monserrat justice. This movie is the opposite of the "boys' own adventure" sorts of movies. There are no striking heroics - just the very real feeling of people performing onerous often dangerous duties as well as they're able - which is heroic itself. The movie does not skimp on the danger either - the shocking losses of ships in convoys that the corvette "protects", the extreme difficulty of finding and sinking U-boats, almost gives one the feeling, "what's the point of convoys?" (Imagine all surgeons operating with an average 3% survival rate - well, 3% recovery is better than none - but imagine the wear on the surgeons).
The film is gritty, and just has the feel of the 1940s in its bones. The sounds, the movement, the look of cities and harbors, the clothes - it's as if one's uncles' tales have all come to life.
Jack Hawkins and Donald Sinden are wonderful - almost always (and necessarily in wartime) stiff upper lip. The movie's moral dramas (bearing upon decisions the captain must make) are wonderfully conceived and executed.
This is truly a superb movie - a great credit to all who worked on it - a memorial to many. It's a completely different - and superior - genre to such movies as Pearl Harbor. I even prefer it to its natural rival, In Which We Serve - good though the latter is.
Post British World War II movies helped sustain the ailing British Film
industry in the 1950's. There were some truly awful movies made -
probably so those who were really there could turn to their girls and
say - "you know it wasn't really like that".
The Cruel Sea is an exceptional exception. Firstly it is based on a superb book, secondly it is well cast with Jack Hawkins at the height of his powers playing Captain Ericsson and thirdly it is well abridged. Getting a 500 page novel into 121 mins means that there will be cuts - but they are well done and the narrative thread of the book is not lost. There is also very little "messing with the story" so prevalent in Hollywood.
The Royal Navy obviously thought the movie worth supporting and helped find a real Flower Class corvette. Of all 135 built - 22 had been sunk by the enemy, 13 lost in bad weather and the rest paid off after the war. "Compass Rose" sails across the screen - firing her weapons and throwing her depth charges (you want to see what REAL depth charges are like when they go off - watch this) in beautifully photographed black and white action sequences.
Suspend your historical accuracy regarding true ship detail however - throughout the movie the Flower is in her 1945 paid off configuration with a lantern style radar that wasn't introduced till half way through the war and the continuity switches from moderate weather to flat calm at the flick of a scene as needed when the ship is making turns. Still you want to see heavy weather - there is some real rough stuff with the corvette punching into it and some stock wartime footage very carefully grafted in to give the necessary verisimilitude.
But the real narrative is how the specks of humanity are treated by the war and the cruel sea and it is amply conveyed in the morning after a torpedo'ing. Count how many are INCREDIBLY lucky to be found alive in rafts and remember how many were on the ship that was sunk in the night. It's a grim ratio and a vivid portrayal of the real cost of the Battle of the Atlantic.
Young and upcoming Donald Sinden, Denholm Elliot and Virginia McKenna support this superb movie - it made Donald Sinden.
I hope there is a DVD coming because the photography is clearly good enough to be shown at a higher resolution but this should not stop you watching this now.
"The men are the heroes. The heroines are the ships. The only villain
is the sea, the cruel sea." A truthful statement made by that
accomplished actor, the late Jack Hawkins, as Ericson a merchant navy
captain in peacetime. But in the naval reserve and now appointed
captain of His Majesty's Ship, COMPASS ROSE, a flower class corvette.
In reality is was christened, H.M.S. COREOPSIS (K32).
The first British maritime casualty in The Battle of the Atlantic was the Donaldson Line's ATHENIA, torpedoed and sunk by U-Boat-30, Lt Fritz Lemp commanding, less than 8 or 9 hours after Britain declared war, September 3rd 1939.
The Atlantic battle was the longest fought campaign of the war. Only ending when what was left of the German U-Boat fleet surfaced, wherever they may be, to rendezvous and surrender to ships of the allied navies in May 1945. The story of this lone corvette then, displayed just a small but nevertheless vital role of the Royal Navy's "little ships", as they became known, that took part in this vast oceanic conflict.
Ericson develops a faintly worried facial expression camouflaged with a slight smile when he meets up with two of his recently commissioned "green" young officers, who have just reported aboard ship after only five weeks of training, as she lays at the fitting out dock and nearing completion for sea trials. Lockhart tells Ericson that his only nautical experience was sailing a 5 ton yawl on the Solent. Ferraby, the other officer had done one channel crossing to France on a ferry in peace time. Ericson's first lieutenant, known in naval terms as number one, is Bennett. An overbearing officer; the gold lace on his sleeve having gone to his head. To him it was authority, and let no one ever forget it! Bennett soon lands ashore in the naval hospital with a suspected ulcer.
The first scenes of war at sea; and close up, are sobering and ugly. Shots of rescued survivors from sunken merchantmen. Cold wet and gasping for breath and trying to hang on to life. Coughing and throwing up oil, their lungs full of the smelly black slime. Some of the poor devils make it. Others do not and are committed back to the deep cruel sea....And into the God's care.
The hunt for U-Boats is well filmed. One boat? Maybe a wolf pack lurking out there with deadly intent. COMPASS ROSE manoeuvring, its asdic/sonar equipment working like a bloodhound's nose, sniffing for a kill.
Ericson's stiff upper lip falters when he orders depth charges to be dropped among struggling survivors in the water when he suspects a U-boat lurking under them. Later, alcohol does not really help to salve his conscience. Another poignant scene is of Petty Officer Tallow on shore leave and heading for his sister's house accompanied by Petty Officer Watts. And only to find his sister's house demolished, and his sister killed during a night-time Luftwaffe blitz on Liverpool.
It is the turn of COMPASS ROSE to become a victim of a U-Boat's torpedo. It strikes at night with surprising suddenness. Ten men out of the ship's company survive the ordeal on carley floats to be rescued. Ericson is appointed to command a new class of corvette named, SALTASH CASTLE, along with promotion to full commander. The corvette is ordered to escort duty on the arctic run to Murmansk via the North Cape of Norway. Near the end Ericson can claim a second U-Boat sunk.
In the closing scenes of the film with the war over, SALTASH CASTLE slowly slips by a group of surrendered U-Boats moored together, as she arrives at her anchorage. After anchoring, Ericson's call, "Finished with main engine," gives a nice ring to the final scenes in this film. There is an air of relaxation between Ericson and Lockhart as they reminisce on the ship's bridge. They talk of men who never made it through to the end. Morell, Ferraby, Tallow, Watts and the other crew members. A tiny fraction of the high cost who now lay in a vast watery grave along with other brave men and many fine ships.
Documentary footage adds to the authentic feel of this film, coupled some of the time with a mournful musical soundtrack, which seems to add a depressing atmosphere to an often dangerous and angry looking ocean. Sailing in a Atlantic gale under wartime conditions, could sink to the level of waterlogged purgatory.
Eric Ambler did a admirable job of adapting Nicholas Monsarrat's fine novel for the screen. Director Charles Friend turned Ambler's work into the best film ever made about the Royal Navy in the Second World War.
I sailed with a Merchant Navy skipper who commanded a Flower class corvette. He said that in stormy conditions they would indulge in some weird antics. "The Flower class corvettes," he said "would have pitched and rolled in a field of wet grass. Let alone a bloody great ocean!"
If my ship were going down, and I had that one last moment to grab a
treasured something, my copy of the book, THE CRUEL SEA by Nicholas
Monsarrat might well be what I choose. (That is supposing I already had my
life vest on.) This book has affected my life deeply since I first came
across it as a teenager. It is why I joined the US Navy. (where I
ironically ended up in the submarine service.) It formed an invaluable
in teaching me what `duty' meant, and `honor.' It is therefore a bit more
difficult for me to judge this motion picture than most. Were it horrid, I
should still love it, I suppose. Fortunately it is not horrid. `The Cruel
Sea is in fact first rate.
It is difficult to translate any full-length novel to the screen. There are too many `moments in time' to get them all in. So the adaptation of a novel by a screenwriter becomes a process of selection. Eric Ambler did his usual excellent job in writing this script, and if he left out some of the better bits, he also got the best bits in. Charles Frend directs it well within the style of the early 1950's. The special effects are above average for the time and not unacceptable by today's standards, although they are not spectacular. The film editing is clean and crisp with little to complain about. The musical score is not intrusive, but not up to the rest of the effort. It would be ten years before the art of Movie Music caught up to the rest, and here the score is no worse any other film of 1953. It is however the acting that gives this movie the push to get it far above the rest.
Jack Hawkins is marvelous in his understated competence as Captain Ericson, and the actors who play his officers (including a very young and very British Denholm Elliot) all turn in workman-like performances. It is however the overall excellence of the entire cast that is impressive. One of the major strengths of British films from the end of the Second World War through the 1970's was the incredibly fine ensemble casting that provided first-rate acting even in the smallest parts. Walter Fitzgerald in his 30 second role as the air raid warden shows true compassion when he says, `Yes, Mister Tallow, that was your house, wasn't it?'
All of the vivid, bloody color that made `Platoon' and `Saving Private Ryan' the two best combat films ever made are absent here. This was a different type of warfare, the blood, all of the color washed away by the cruel sea. The Battle of the North Atlantic was a very British battle. A five and a half year long stoic battle of endurance, of perseverance, of honor and duty. This is the side of the Second Word War that most lived, but few have ever been able to put into words. `The Cruel Sea' is much more than just a history lesson though. It is a very good movie, and it is a beautiful example of what British film could be in 1953. I highly recommend it.
My father served in the Royal Navy for 42 years. He joined in 1914 and retired in 1956 and was in active service throughout both World Wars. He told me that the film 'The Cruel Sea' was the most realistic account of how it was during those terrible times.
Archetypal British WW2 fare which is very clearly a cut above the rest. Jack
Hawkins steers HMS Compass Rose, a small escort ship, through the perils of
convoy duty and the ever present risk of U-boats.
Hawkins excels as the exhausted Captain in this no frills account of men battling against a constant and ruthless enemy - the sea. A melancholic soundtrack and the distinct lack of jingoism create a forlorn atmosphere as the ship's company endures periods of grinding boredom interrupted only by the sudden terror of U-boat attacks. In the tensest of scenes, during a rare heady pursuit, the radar gives Hawkins his firmest ever indication of an enemy submarine. "There are men in the water just there" he murmurs, realising that as Captain he is alone in making an agonising decision - whether to drop depth charges and risk killing a group of British survivors floating ahead of him. The attack is pressed home, killing the defenceless men but failing to hit the U-boat, and leads to a moving scene where Hawkins' resolute professionalism crumbles in a brief but heartfelt show of drunken emotion.
The trips to sea are punctuated by tableaux scenes on shore, where the tribulations of officers and crew are no less fraught with threats and worry. In a country under siege there can be no escape from air-raids or even an adulterous wife. "It's no-ones fault" says Hawkins "It's the war, the whole bloody war." A strong supporting cast, includes 'youngsters' Denholm Elliot, Donald Sinden and Stanley Baker.
This is a film that succeeds in telling how dangerously close to the edge the British came during the Battle of the Atlantic and of the enormous impact it had on ordinary individuals. The closing scene leaves the audience with a real sense of how, after five long years of war, a nation was left exhausted and emotionally drained.
As a study of men thrown into unaccustomed roles, in a time of severe
stress, The Cruel Sea has few peers. You live the lives with these men,
share their emotions, their fears, even their losses. The time of absolute
despair still gives glimpses of the inner strength some men possess, and
others lack, unwilling to be brave enough to face a future, in which they
longer see a role for themselves.
This is a movie worthy of many screenings, and enjoyed for what it is, a
movie that will challenge the viewer to not judge the characters, but to
accept the times, circumstances, and locations were all
The Cruel Sea is one of my favourite films
Fine English war movie of life aboard a convoy escort ship during WWII. It's original B&W format only adds to the overall feel of the movie. Great no-nonsense performances from the cast. The movie is notable in that it is almost free of propaganda and instead concentrates on showing the crews life on board in a realistic way.Jack Hawkins turns in a fine performance.
Tony Cox's review is one of the best I have ever read on Imdb and says it
all with heartfelt passion, accurately describing the drama and characters
motivations in this realistic film of anti U-boat sea warfare throughout
WWII.I won't try to emulate his brilliant narrative but just add a few
thoughts of my own.Jack Hawkins is always very watchable in any of his films
as an actor and seems to inhabit the part of Ericsson, the skipper of
"Compass Rose" and "Saltash Castle".He vividly portrays the professional and
emotional sides of his character, especially when he utters "...its the war,
the bloody war" with tear stained eyes.
One has to disabuse your mind of later Donald Sinden parts and his rather stagey voice and look dispassionatly at his early carrer as he portrays the new No.1 with an interest in learning first aid which inevitably comes in useful when tending the many merchant seaman they meet who have become torpedo victims.Can someone please tell me what "snorkers" are when applied to sausages, as I have never heard this expression, despite living in London all my life.Evidently Stanley Baker loves them!!
This film effectively portrays the whole gamut of wartime emotions from the long Atlantic naval voyage boredom, short moments of high danger and excitement, guilt about not rescuing your own men who need help, sorrow at losing loved ones, training men on new sciences (asdic) and even romance (Viginia McKenna).At the end one feels as though you had actually been on the corvette yourself with the crew.One of the most realistic WWII dramas I have ever seen (and I have all the classics in my library).I rated it 8/10.
The Cruel Sea is a powerful film that puts you in the battle of the Atlantic. The black and white photography unintentionally conveys the gritty reality of a grim war.(Somebody has said that World War II was a war fought in black and white.) And although the special effects are primitive by today's standards, they are still pretty impressive. The film is an prime example of the post war school of British cinema before it was subsumed by Hollywood. It is a fine film, a fine war film and a fine piece of accurate history.
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Women know about our short attention span; it's what makes us men and "them" women. So why should we change? It's nature, right? Wrong. Many of you might not like to hear this, but women do have a point when they complain about us not listening to them. Many things can cause a short attention span; so learn what can be changed and what is simply male nature.
look at your biologyFirst, a short attention span could be a biological problem. But before I go any further, you must recognize common attention problems from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
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low blood sugar levelShort attention could result from a blood sugar problem. Men with hectic schedules sometimes do not eat properly. Bad eating habits can lead to low blood sugar levels, which can consequently lower attention span. This condition is known as hypoglycemia. Dr. Ian J. Deary of the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, states that brain functions slow down causing a shortened attention span when the brain is deprived of its main source of energy, glucose.
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iron deficiencyA study conducted by the US Agricultural Research Service (ARS), led by Mary J. Kretsch et al, discovered that an iron deficiency could lower attention span. Kretsch studied eight healthy males, aged 27 to 47 years, over a period of 20 weeks. Volunteers subjected to a low-iron diet experienced a significant decrease in concentration when asked to perform a hand-to-eye coordination test for six minutes.
Simply eat more iron-rich foods to treat this condition. Clams, cereal, liver, and beans are particularly rich in iron.
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