New Haven Independent

Posted by: Lance | November 14, 2008 11:02 AM

The only problem I have with same sex partners is that they give their kids names like "Willow". The sixties are over damn it!

Great job on the Chris Dodd thing Paul. I hope you continue to sniff out sketchy dealings by both political parties.

Posted by: cedarhillresident | November 14, 2008 3:09 PM

I love you Paul!

Posted by: aint love grand | November 14, 2008 11:13 PM

Paul

You need to get over this....a lovely ceremony?

What is this world coming to? In fact, what is Connecticut coming to when we embrace a concept that California finds too liberal?

Considering the loosening of the defination of marriage, my wife and I are drawing up plans to divorce soon so that I can marry my cat and she can marry the coffe table.

Posted by: Corinne Blackmer | November 15, 2008 4:01 PM

Dear Paul,

What a mensch you are! Pilar and I loved the job you've done covering gay and lesbian marriage and since I, too, have spent a lot of time crying in joy this week, I understand. Marriage between loving and enlightened partners--a thing of splendor. By the way, the coverage on Dodd was fantastic, and I am hoping there might be some consideration of Joe.

Posted by: Mr. Stephen Peter Ross | November 17, 2008 1:44 PM

"Considering the loosening of the defination [sic] of marriage, my wife and I are drawing up plans to divorce soon so that I can marry my cat and she can marry the coffe [sic] table."

Then let me be the first to congratulate your wife and to express my sympathies for the cat.

Posted by: Carole | November 17, 2008 3:42 PM

Lance,

"The only problem I have with same sex partners is that they give their kids names like 'Willow.' The sixties are over damn it!"

What are your feelings about the Palin family's choice of names (Willow, Bristol, Trig, etc.)? Maybe that's what the ex-VP nominee meant during the debate when she said her family is very "diverse"?

When I was little (back in the '60s), one of my elderly relatives complained about the "movie star names" chosen for some of my second cousins -- names like Dale, Kirk and Bart. Do you think "Lance" qualifies? ;-)

Posted by: Chris Gray | November 18, 2008 12:28 AM

Too bad going to the comment page wiped out the modem download, I would have loved to have listened a third time after reading the comments.

I'm so glad that the viral nature of the Internet is trumping the censorship power of the big media monopolies, though David E. Kelley slammed all the bloggers of the world as half-baked, un-credentialed pseudo-journalists tonight in his James Spader closing it is a good thing that the a new generation of Studs Terkel's has been unleashed all across this land telling real stories of real people with real questions to be answered.

This was why I was an early enthusiast for video equipment and public access television and I jumped right into it when the Coalition for People invited me to train on what I believe was the Ethernet, just prior to the Internet. I informally met and worked with the Obamas in D,C. at another event sponsored by the group that gave the training. They were serious and nice people, leaders both!

I've always been a sort of pirate activist/journalist, as you know, so I have always crossed lines where others would certainly never go and just as often I have been wildly wrong in my perception of things, but I have always fought for opening up our community, state, national and international dialogue to a wider set of voices than our business model for media allows.

It is fun to watch it subverted!

Meanwhile, I too cherish love despite being somewhat the un-marrying kind, myself. I sure do love my family, helping to raise children, and enjoy most weddings, even briefly my one. The one in Montreal between my niece, Zoe, and her wife, Linda, was sublime. I was even able to dance again, albeit in my Mom's wheelchair! We await the birth of their daughter, in Australia, in about December.

Since we're on the subject, could we win the gay marriage struggle without drawing in a Democratic President into to doom? We can win with this on our own. Remember what "ask don't tell" did to Clinton. Let's focus, lovingly. The kids already get it.

Keep up the good work. I always knew that you would break the shackles that working for some your past employers must have placed upon you and you are furthering the same cause I fought for even more effectively than I ever could, now. Thanks.

Posted by: Chris Gray | November 18, 2008 1:56 AM

Now I can't believe I didn't save that before I submitted and have to wait to read it again. That's what steroids (I'm being treated for a relapse of my MS) can do to your mind.

Don't try this at home, kids, or without a doctor's (and in my case luckily a sister's and niece's - who are nurses) supervision!

What people will do to themselves when they're not even sick! Glad there isn't any rage for me.