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Saturday, February 09
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Just got back from making my preference heard in the only bizarre way we're allowed to do it in this state -- at a party caucus. I've been to a few of these things before -- often just out of curiosity, but occasionally because I really wanted to cast that vote-like thing. Usually, you see, I've dissatisfied with the likely Democratic nominee and have gone to the caucus hoping to at least be able to register that dissatisfaction even if its a forlorn hope. Four years ago, I went to what turned out to be an enjoyable caucus to vote for anybody but Kerry -- even though it was clear by...
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Friday, December 07
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A series of related stories will sometimes cross the web-wires that we watch for Qnews without any obvious tie-in -- no book tour on the subject, no national news item to provide a hook for the local stories. So it was last weekend when at least three daily papers ran stories about apparently unrelated local events, but with a common theme: gay neighborhoods that flowered in the 70s or 80s are now withering. In Dallas, the Morning News recorded the likely passing at the end of the year of a gay bookstore in the city's Crossroads neighborhood. Opened as a junk store on Dec. 5, 1980, Crossroads...
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