D'Anne Witkowski
Creep of the Week: Ted Haggard
Here's a story problem for you. A train carrying a nationally known evangelical pastor leaves the station at 11:23 a.m. traveling 69 miles per hour. If the train travels for approximately three years and stops multiple times to pick up a male [...]
Molly Ivins dead at age 62
Molly Ivins, unabashed liberal newspaper columnist and author, died Jan 31, 2007 in her Austin, Texas home. Ivins had battled breast cancer since 1999. She was 62. A Texas native, Ivins was an expert on Texas politics, which she frequently referred [...]
Creep of the Week: Dick Cheney
Sometimes kids do the most ideologically inconvenient things. Like be a pregnant lesbian when the party you head more or less has taken the position of hating people like her. What's a Dick to do? Bitch slap Wolf Blitzer, that's what. On a Jan. 24, [...]
Creep of the Week: James Rutz
There are plenty of theories out there about what makes kids gay: over bearing mothers or fathers, early exposure to show tunes, letting girls wear pants. Nobody really knows for sure. Nobody, that is, except James Rutz, chairman of Megashift [...]
Creep of the Year:George W. Bush
If there's one thing George W. Bush appreciates it's hard work. At least he claims to on television. I mean, sure the majority of his policies benefit those who live off stock dividends and inheritance instead of those who stand on their feet [...]
Creep of the Week: Focus on the Family
Focus on the Family Think of Focus on the Family as an anti-gay Paul Revere, barreling through town screeching, "The homos are coming, the homos are coming!" The right-wing Christian organization sees the issue of homosexuality in very black and [...]
Creep of the Week: Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist Last week I predicted that lesbian and gay families would be dragged through the mud again as soon as it was politically expedient for Republicans. I'm no Psychic Friend, but it appears I was right. On Feb. 10, [...]
Stupid is as stupid does
Oh, to be young, good looking and stupid. Loïc, the character at the center of the film "Garon Stupide" is all three. He's also uncircumcised, a fact the film gives you multiple opportunities to discover. "Garçon Stupide," the cinematic baby of [...]
Hear Me OUT May, 2005
Superstars: #1 Hits Remixed (SONY BMG Strategic Marketing Group) I'll admit it. I love this album. I dare you to listen to it without smiling and dancing. "Superstars: #1 Hits Remixed" is the ultimate summer album. Together in one place for the [...]
APM does the Time Warp again
DETROIT – AIDS Partnership Michigan's 15th annual Time Warp fundraising event saw smaller numbers in attendance and funds raised even as the organization is grappling with budget cuts from state and federal funding sources. Time Warp 2005: Carnaval [...]
Creep of the Week: Vice President Dick Cheney
Vice President Dick Cheney Let's hear it for this week's Creep, Vice President Dick Cheney for yet again demonstrating that Bush administration politics trump his lesbian daughter Mary every time. Cheney's steely exterior may have seemed [...]
Pull up a chair
There's a scene in the movie "High Fidelity" where John Cusack's character, a record store owner, puts on the song "Dry The Rain" by The Beta Band and says, "I will now sell four copies of 'The Three EPs' by The Beta Band." Immediately customers [...]