Harold and Clay

[Post Updated 4/20/10 9:15 am PDT with photo of Clay and Harold and excerpt from the complaint]

Clay Greene and his partner of more than 20 years, Harold Scull, lived together in Sebastopol, California in the idyllic wine country of Sonoma Valley. Clay and Harold made diligent efforts to protect their legal rights, and had their legal paperwork in place—wills, powers of attorney, and medical directives, all naming each other. Harold was 88 years old and in frail medical condition, but still living at home with Clay, 77, who was in good health for his age.

One evening in April 2008, Harold fell down the front steps of their home.  Clay called an ambulance, and Harold was taken to the hospital.

Based on their medical directives alone, Clay should have been consulted in Harold’s care. Tragically, Sonoma County and health care workers instead refused to allow Clay to see Harold in the hospital.

There, then, the men’s nightmare began. Read more »

It was a lovely day yesterday in Baghdad by the Bay.  What better thing to do than to put on your best American flag outfit and drive in to The City from the suburbs and entertain the shopping tourists from Japan at Union Square.

To whet your appetite, but there’s so much more after the jump:

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Here’s a cool drink of water for the gheyz and girls who are sick of pneumatic Stormy.

/fanning self

Although it was founded in 1972, the organization Feminists for Life (FFL) gained its largest to-date profile in mainstream media and the general public when John Roberts was nominated to be Supreme Court Chief Justice and it was disclosed that his wife Jane was the former Executive Vice President of the organization.  Our South Asian correspondent Nabisco recently mentioned them in a posting here, with the predictable resulting thought of many of “Feminists for What?”

So who are they? Let’s take a look, shall we?

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