There are still braids to be braided, after all, culture war or no. (If you’ve got a hankering for some covers of the Sonny & Cher classic, “The Beat Goes On,” check out the cavalcade of Laugh-In coreography in the Italian singer Mina’s version, circa 1968. This one, from All Seeing I,
[Part one of a two-part post.] Last week I hit a nadir about all this Proposition 8 malarkey. It was a bad one, if something like a nadir can be characterized on a relative scale. It was close to noon (Tuesday, actually), and I was in a crazed wind tunnel