Mike Tidmus

I just received an email from David Byrne. You remember David … the head Talking Head, one of the geniuses behind My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, etc. I thought, on election eve, and although sent to many of David’s and Brian Eno’s fans, his email was worth passing along: Pardon the bulk mailing. [...]

Reverend Fred Phelps hates marriage equality too! (Graphic: mine) You have to give the Reverend Fred (god-hates-fags) Phelps credit for one thing: Fred always says right out loud what’s festering in the minds of the leadership of the radical religious right, but which they are reluctant, at least in public, to say aloud. Still, the Yes-on-8 [...]

A few weeks ago Protect Marriage/Yes-on-Prop-8 revised their marketing tag line from “protect marriage” to “protect traditional marriage.” One assumes they believe the inclusion of the word traditional carries some additional weight or somehow adds enhanced credibility to their arguments in favor of limiting marriage to mixed-sex couples in the state of California. This revised [...]

Divisive (Video: No on Prop 8, via YouTube) Last week the false-witness-bearers behind Prop 8 sent out a deceptive mailer featuring Senator Barack Obama. The piece was clearly intended to give the impression that the Democratic presidential candidate backs their determined effort to write their divisive discrimination into the California Constitution. We know for a fact [...]