‘EastEnders’ Ballum Beats Everything on American TV

On October 29, 2022October 30, 2022 By Mark PerigardIn TVLeave a comment

American TV shows are rubbish when it comes to depicting gay relationships.

Take, for example, ABC’s “General Hospital.”

The long-running serial features a gay character who appears about once every two months to provide comic relief to his bestie.

The love of his life, his now ex-husband, a legacy character no less, has been working on another floor of the hospital and hasn’t been seen onscreen in two years.

Tokens and time-fillers. That pretty much sums up the wasteland of American TV.

Not so across the pond.

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That Time Batgirl was Almost Killed by a Wig

On August 21, 2022November 9, 2024 By Mark PerigardIn ComicsLeave a comment

In the late ’60s, the mighty maestros of DC Comics had a brainstorm: Spin Robin and Batgirl into solo adventures in the back pages of “Detective Comics.”

If you were a fan of the Bat-sidekicks hoping to see them take on some of Batman’s notorious rogues by themselves or perhaps even develop their own gallery of colorful enemies, you had to be disappointed.

Robin fought campus crime, and the stories were even more boring than this sentence suggests.

Batgirl battled run-of-the-mill thieves and killers.

But there is one Batgirl story that stands out, even after all these years.

It’s a Gotham City-sized crater of stupidity.

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The Supreme Court is Coming for Gays Next

On June 24, 2022June 24, 2022 By Mark PerigardIn Politics2 Comments

As if the Supreme Court’s historic reversal of Roe v. Wade wasn’t enough today, Judge Clarence Thomas, husband of insurrectionist Ginni “Release the Kraken” Thomas, announced in his opinion that the Court should target gays next.

The Supreme Court should revisit such historic decisions as the ones that established the right of gays to privacy in their own homes (Lawrence v. Texas, 2003) and the right to marry (Obergefell v. Hodges, 2015), he stated.

Those rulings “were demonstrably erroneous decisions,” he wrote.

That’s not some careless aside.

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A Life Slipped Through the Cracks

On February 20, 2022February 20, 2022 By Mark PerigardIn Life4 Comments

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I dreamt of Robin, and when I awoke, I knew he was dead.

Robin was a man I knew for a season when I was 19.

We were never friends, though I would have been gladly that, and more, if he had given me the chance.

I hadn’t thought about him in at least twenty years, and here I was, googling him on my desktop first thing in the morning.

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TFG is Having a Bad Month. Why That’s Great for the Country.

On February 7, 2022 By Mark PerigardIn Politics2 Comments

We’re in Year Two of Joe Biden’s presidency, but TFG (The Former Guy) can’t let that election go.

In a recent statement, TFG actually said the quiet, traitorous part aloud:

While repeating his lies about widespread voter fraud, he said that … ‘Mike Pence did have the right to change the outcome … Unfortunately, he didn’t exercise that power. He could have overturned the election!”

You don’t need to be Perry Mason to see this as a confession.

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