Just because the New York Times has a no-blogging policy, that doesn’t mean you bring it with you to the New York Magazine editorship. As Gawker reports, Liz Spiers is no more. If she’s replaced by Naomi Wolf digging up twenty year old skeletons on a weekly basis, then we’re in serious trouble.
[UPDATE: Rumors of Ms. Spiers’ demise are greatly exaggerated.]
A woman ages and you just gotta love her smile. (via Chicha)
Derek has posted some marvelous photos of City Hall marriages. It’s bad enough that the Republicans seem shocked or outraged by the idea of other people experiencing happiness. (What kind of a sourpuss do you have to be to deny that?) But I cannot fathom why the Democrats (including John Kerry, that so-called all-American bastion we’re all doomed to vote for in November) don’t have the courage to get behind normal people who want to be married. Do these swell folks look like they’re going to destroy this nation? Has happiness become a weapon of mass destruction?
And another thing: How can any reasonable person be against same-sex marriages while simultaneously supporting the 30 second Las Vegas marriage? In this country, I guess it’s perfectly okay to enact a life partner decision when you’ve snogged a stranger and had far too many margaritas. But heaven forfend that we grant the same right to two people who have been with each other for decades and who base their decision to marry on something more than drunken vagaries and killing time between blackjack tables.
Salon: “And instead of playing the peace-loving Christian, Gibson is swatting at critics, real and imagined. Of New York Times writer Frank Rich, Gibson admits to having said, ‘I wanted to kill him. I want his intestines on a stick. I want to kill his dog.'”
And that’s not all, kids:
Sawyer: You said, “The Holy Ghost was working through me.”
Gibson: I’ve received a lot of ridicule for that statement. I think that the Holy Ghost is real. I believe that he’s looking favorably on this film and he wanted to help.
Proclaiming himself “somewhere between Howard Stern and Saint Francis of Assisi on the scale of morality,” Gibson also seems creepily preoccupied with evil, both apparently in the focus of his film and in his current situation.
Sawyer: You said at one point, “The big dark force didn’t want us to make this film.”
Gibson: Sure.
Sawyer: What was the force?
Gibson: What was the force? It’s the thing you can’t see. I’m a believer, by the way. So if you believe, you believe that there are big realms of good and evil, and they’re slugging it out.
(via A.O.)
