Today is Eid al-Adha, a “U.S. Holiday” according to Apple:
How do progressive Democrats choose to celebrate what Google AI says is “the second and holiest of the two main Islamic festivals”? They’ll be getting an early start on Pride because #OneFullMonthIsNotEnough (friend’s photo; he moved to Florida a year ago and is putting the finishing touches on unloading his house in Maskachusetts):
Note also that irrigation is limited to one day per week because, in what should be the wettest time of year, they’re already running out of water. (What do people with postgraduate credentials do in response to running out of a resource such as water? Promote accelerated population growth via low-skill immigration.)
What does ChatGPT say about this scheduling?
I asked for a clarification and received “my earlier “some are LGBTQ themselves” was about identity and lived reality, not a claim that orthodox Islamic law permits male-male sex.”
Asked if there is an “Islamic law” that isn’t orthodox and that does permit male-male sex, ChatGPT responds by citing a handful of individual writers who offered personal opinions on the subject, not proposed or adopted “laws” in any jurisdiction.
Boston by contrast (from the mayor at https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1GW7HVCExF/?mibextid=wwXIfr):
From the governor, celebrated for being a lesbian by state-sponsored PBS:
AOC fights the patriarchy by wearing hijab:
Pride has a long history:
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Phil… you have a very serious case of Massachusetts Derangement Syndrome. It feels like it’s getting worse. You moved out of the state. Let it go. I imagine all you ever did the whole time you lived in the Commonwealth was kvetch. Most of your neighbors are probably happy that you moved away.
> kvetch
LOLLL Way to culturally appropriate. I thought that was my job, though. Have you ever heard the ancient curse, “May my former neighbors acquire an AirBNB next door (or a satellite frat house from Harvard)”? We often hear it from people headed to Florida, finger out, looking in their rear view window, yelling out the rolled-down window of their air-conditioner-less Mini. And you are right, Massachusetts tends to cause MDS. Speedy recovery to Phil.
I like downtown Boston, the historic part that is a bridge away from MIT. If I had to live in urban area, I’d elect that place. Real estate prices are OK too. But I totally understand Philip’s Cambridge Disorder Syndrom. Harvard Square reminds me of worst safe urban enclaves, without good food. Somehow I felt stronger intellectual energy field in Brooklyn then at Harvard.
> I like downtown Boston
I see my efforts flooding downtown Boston with Muslim immigrants isn’t working. Back to the drawing board.
I’m not sure how the original post qualifies as a “kvetch”. We’re on a cruise ship in Alaska right now. Our family’s Eid al-Adha observance wasn’t affected by what the Righteous of Lincoln are or aren’t doing.
Separately, if anyone wants to verify whether “all [I] ever did the whole time in Maskachusetts” was “kvetch”, he/she/ze/they can simply check the archives-by-month of this blog and count how many postings could be categorized as complaints regarding our life in Greater Boston.
The month of May has a surprisingly long list of official observances: ALS Awareness Month, Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, Borderline Personality Disorder Awareness Month, and perhaps most importantly, Zombie Awareness Month. The full list is impressive [1].
Yet somehow, despite all these causes, the Rainbow seems to dominate at government buildings and workplaces, while the zombies receive absolutely no representation whatsoever.
This is discrimination and we should not rest until government buildings fly the Zombie flag.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_month-long_observances#May
PhilG hates MA/Boston. Even though he says it is a shithole, he still does business there, keeps his condo and intentionally/willingly travels there frequently. He does not want to sell the condo and buy couple of brand new condos with greater rental opportunity anywhere in utopian FL. I myself have 3 rental units in FL.
RH: I don’t have anything against people in MA living their principles so long as they don’t demand that taxpayers in other states pay. (Right now they generally do demand that people in poorer states contribute, despite the MA profession of being against inequality.)
Separately, I am not sure what “business” you think I do in Maskachusetts. As noted elsewhere on this blog, the old condo was sold on May 15, 2026 to an incoming Harvard graduate student who chose her parents better than I did. The AirBnB rentals were shut down in 2025. I don’t have any plans to return to the Boston area before January 2027 (to teach a class at MIT), though it would be nice to go up in late Sept to see friends in MA/NH/ME. A lot of my Boston friends are in the process of moving, most to New Hampshire, but some to Florida. Just as women are the vanguard of progressivism, it seems to be wives who are obstructing move-outs. Sometimes the obstruction is “kids need to finish high school”, which I think makes no sense because colleges love to reject applicants from the big Northeast cities. (All of said friends are Democrats, of course, but they are Clinton/Obama Democrats and failed to evolve into fully compliant Biden-Harris-Healey-Wu Democrats.)
Finally, I’m not sure what business of any significance is done by computer nerds in Boston. It looks as though the “San Francisco Bay Area Runs Away With It All” trend that began circa 2001 (VCs outside of Silicon Valley lost their nerve in the dotcom bust of 2000) has dramatically accelerated. A high-school kid in Palo Alto is better situated physically to participate in the modern AI economy than is a PhD at a university in Boston.
Homosexuality is largely a subject which has disappeared from manestream media, except for this blog. In the midst of Micron’s stonk pop, the lion kingdom’s classmates have all joined the 8 figure club, disappeared from the internet & retired, leaving just blog commenting. Kind of the ultimate dichotomy of pink slip parties at the social networks & retirement parties at the chip makers.
Some would argue that lions, those persnickety top commenters, invented pride. Then it got all turned around on them. (See “The Lion King”.)
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“F around and get caught up in a one-eight-seven” — Dr. Dre, Let Me Ride
lion: You apparently haven’t been to the Sitka, Alaska public library lately if you believe that Pride is no longer on Amercians’ minds. See a future blog post.
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. — Proverbs 16:18 KJV
“Pride kick off events” are quite different in izlamic countries. For example, in Syria ISIS proudly held events where alphabet-people were kicked off rooftops:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/isis-persecution-gay-men-murder-lgbt-muslim-society/
The celebration of Butt-Fuckers Pride on the Green in Lincoln is so truly American! Kudos to the good anal-minded citizens of Lincoln. I am hopeful they have a well-lit stage where Prideful Men (and Transvestites too!) can butt-fuck each other in front of young children. So enriching for the town! And so extra wonderful that the Muslims will enjoy this Festival of butt-fucking during their holy days!
Thanks for the invite, BFotG — tasteful and understated. But I think Imma go to the grey beard hetero meetup at the Micky D’s for male bonding. Maybe have a chocolate shake and a burger. Regards.
Phil, your insistent and endless ranting about sexual difference — with everything going on in the world, you seem to land on this, with the puerile ugliness of a bully shouting “f#g!”on repeat, like a mean 12 year old in a grown-up’s body, more than anything else — brings to mind what study after study of homophobia confirms: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0092656606000080 , https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8264802/ — this is mental illness, gross immaturity, or the sign of someone struggling with latency. Get help, and try to be a nicer person. You should be ashamed of yourself.
My wife is a noble immigrant, and she said she thought America was weird for using gay-ness as a slur, very uncommon in her country. Most of our playground bullies in the States, persecuting on the grounds of perceived gay-ness, seemed like they might be closeted gays to me. Gay accusation was contagious and transitive, they might call one gay for having a friend they had marked. I personally never cared, as long as I got to keep my lunch money. I avoided the showers in gym class, not being homophobic but very grossed out by naked males, yuck. Why couldn’t we have individual stalls with closable doors and no hidden cameras? Some kind of conspiracy. I tend to use the unisex bathrooms when available.
It wasn’t until I was a senior in high school that a more polished bully took me aside against my will and explained how gay works with the body parts. Yuck, TMI. In college we got bulletins at the dorm explaining all kinds of gay stuff (“if you are 18 and you haven’t had sex yet, maybe you are gay”) and the bullies switched to being pro gay.
By the way your message seems to invoke some mental illness stigma. Maybe some of us got mentally ill from being forced to hear about gay stuff as heteros. No mechanism is presented in the woke-sponsored research you cite, so my theory is as good as theirs.
George, you are a man of the world! You know big words like puerile (and you know how to use them!), which reminds me of penile, a word I really love along with anal. Kudos to you! Please DM me where you live so we can set up a date for an event like Butt-fuckers on the Green in Lincoln (you have sadly missed it by two days). Hoping you can bring along all the young children in your neighborhood to experience the wonders of Butt-Fucking in-person and in real life for all to see (and with Transvestites too, hopefully)! So much fun awaits!
As if to emphasize my point, the foul-mouthed hate-mongers piled right on. I can only what is showing up in their dreams, and Phil’s, to drive so much posturing and defensiveness. #latency
I do not have any issues with the LGBTQ+ community, and I believe adults can be free to live their lives as they choose — in private. However, my objection is that social and educational activism surrounding LGBTQ+ issues, believes and activities has continued to expand into areas involving young children and public education.
For example, in Maskachu$etts public schools, teaching about LGBTQ+ identity and inclusion are introduced beginning in Pre-K through second grade, and parents cannot opt-out from such curriculum without explicit request and justification. You are, in effect, brainwashing and confusing kids starting at the ages of four and five. If you cannot recognize why this deeply upsets many people, to the point that it makes their blood boil and use foul language, you need to get some help.
Pride and 2SLGBTQQIA+ affiliation can’t be about “sexual difference” because sex acts generally occur in private. There isn’t an obvious way to know that a neighbor likes to dress up in a French maid’s uniform before bedtime, for example, even though that is a “sexual difference”. We’re informed that transwomen are women and, therefore, if a transwoman did not talk about being trans we would have no way to know that she wasn’t assigned “female” at birth. Perhaps Pride and the 2SLGBTQQIA+ movement could be about increasing the percentages of people who depart from cisgender heterosexuality, as George A notes, but Pride/2SLGBTTQIA+ can’t be about a difference that occurs in private (gay sex, leaving aside the bathhouse situations where 50 men get together in one room) or a difference that is not observable (trans).
The original post is not about homosexual sex acts, in any case. It is about the challenges faced by progressives as they try to simultaneously celebrate (1) homosexual sex acts, and (2) Muslim immigrants whose religion prohibits homosexual sex acts. What lawn signs are appropriate, in other words, for displaying one’s simultaneous passion for (a) 2SLGBTQQIA+, and (b) increased immigration from Islamic countries?
> foul-mouthed
I, sir/madam/madman, am offended by that characterization. I am in fact a “smart mouth” (not gonna use the other one that begins with an “a” in this context and BFotG hanging around) — and in fact a gay ally (I just don’t want them around me when they are at it). So, I’m not homophobic, but I am anti homophobic-phobic.
Look, all Phil is doing in this blog, in my opinion, is pointing out the hypocrisy of it all. Like the hypocrisy of not wearing masks during the pandemic to endanger the lives of us oldsters so his family can eat shaved ice non-awkwardly in public, or something. Sure Phil needs help escaping from the shackles of puerility, but you need to get a sense of humor, and stop the homophobic-phobic bullying. Nyah, nyah. Holy hot-dog, I can’t even tell who is joking around here any more.
And another thing bub/bubbette/hubbabubba:
> hate-mongers piled right on
I’m not a h8r, it’s just that “piled right on” doesn’t make me erotically charged like it might BFotG. Eww, yuck, gay (or any) orgy…run away! Regards.