Friday Fish Wrap: May 28, 2010

This afternoon, I was driving up to Nevada Outdoors for some pecan chips to put into my amazing homemade electric backyard smoker - today doing Asian 12 spice chicken with a raspberry mango sauce  - while thinking that I should also stop off and buy some more mascara. It occurred to me that there was quite a yin-yang thing going on between the girly-girl me and the more testosterone me.

This got me going on the wonderful world of gender roles as we know it today. It has certainly changed.

This ain’t my momma’s rigidly gender specific world.

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Right gets their wish: Military buy-in on DADT

From reported comments by Conservative leaders regarding the ‘Don’t Ask. Don’t Tell’ policy that encouraged military gays and lesbians to stay in the closet:

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said in October 2009 that for a reversal of DADT to be successful, there would have to be a “buy-in by the military.”

“They should be included in this,” said Graham. “I am open-minded to what the military may suggest, but I can tell you, I’m not going to make policy based on a campaign rally.”

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