Mike Tidmus

A redesign of the California State Flag worth bringing back. Click on the flag for a larger version. (Graphic: mine) Harvey Milk once said to Allan Baird, the local Teamsters Union representative and director of the Coors Beer boycott in California, who had asked Harvey to support the union’s strike against six major beer distributors, [...]

The Beast has taken a big old bite out of a whole bunch of really distasteful people who made its 50 Most Loathsome People in America, 2008 list. I could easily have come up with several substitutes! Bounce on over and find out who made Numero Uno, you might be surprised because he/she/it doesn’t rhyme with [...]

I know some folks have issues with the Reverend Al Sharpton, but he’s a true friend of the equality movement. I happen to be a great admirer of the man, because when Reverend Al hits one out of the park, he tears the hide off the ball! My buddy Andy at UK Gay News pointed [...]

Good riddance Mr Bush (Graphic: from the Tidmus Archives) Poetic comeuppance as only the amazing Mad Kane can dish it: An Alpha-Political Farewell to Bush and Cheney Back in 2004 I summed up George Bush’s first term in my Alpha Politics. So it seems only appropriate to do the same for the Bush-Cheney second term. (Most of [...]

Dallas County, Texas has driven another nail in the coffin of the radical religious right’s faith-based, abstinence-only anti-gay genocide scam. John Wright, writing for the Dallas Voice, is reporting that Dallas County has overturned a 14-year-old ban on incorporating the distribution of condoms as part of its AIDS/HIV prevention programs: From The Dallas Voice: Dallas [...]