After a whirwind tour of our nation's capital, we are back here in not-so-sunny Pittsburgh and glad to be home.  We visited my alma mater, stopped by the National Zoo to see the pandas (only saw the papa), toured the Museum of American Indians (wow) and strolled through Georgetown and Chinatown.  Ledcat went to the Holocaust Memorial which I've seen several times while I was at my workshop.  We stayed in a ridiculously overpriced hotel -- the most significant difference between this one and a regularly overpriced hotel seemed to be the down comforters.  ...

But back to the homo news from here and around the globe ...

First, a follow up.  You may recall the fine upstanding Philadelphia couple, Joseph J. Catto and Shawnita Armonstrong Catto, who wrote in to their local paper expressing their disgust that homo-marriage is compared with interracial marriage.  Just a quick mention that a fellow reader, Vanessa Burk of Medford, NJ, took a few moments to slap down the Armstrong-Catto hypocrisy:

It's sickening to know that even a couple of interracial status cannot understand that all minorities are in the same boat and should work together.

Who are they to judge anyone, seeing as if they were to have fallen in love in 1940, they would have had a very difficult time trying to live for love. Do not judge other people's feelings. The two of you getting married was a choice you made, being gay is not.

Here, here Vanessa.  The mighty-white wingnuts have done an excellent job sowing discord among American minorities.  Its sad how frequently we step on each other in our scramble to reach the pinnacle of acceptance among the MWW.  The sooner we realize their agenda and work together for human rights, the sooner we might realize they ain't ceding an inch of ground to anyone outside of their club.

Some good news from the Bush Administration ....the Prez signed the Pension Protection Act which includes provisions protecting two aspects of the financial interests of same-sex partners.  Check out the Advocate for more details. 

A gay porn star is heading to Israel to provide a live sex entertainment show for the Israeli troops ... how is it possible that they object to Gay Pride, but permit a live gay sex show????

A New York women's wrongful death case dismissed because she has no legal standing as a spouse.  Even after 18 years together and coparenting two children.  Sigh.

Cincinnati gays will be protected from discrimination in housing and employment now that their homegrown hate group has withdrawn its petition to force a voter referendum on the matter (the non-discrimination policy was previously passed by city council).  Or more precisely, now that the gay-affirming residents have proven that the referendum petition was fraudulent, containing hundreds of false signatures.  Ha!

Well, that's it for this morning .... off to try out my new coffee grinder and unpack.  Uggg.