i never excused kosilek's crime ... i have, in fact, repeatedly stated that she deserves to sit in prison for the rest of her life ... but it does not follow that i must reject the judgement of her doctors and the court that srs is a medical necessity

i'm not excusing kosilek ... she deserves to sit behind bars for the rest of her life ... but non-murdering trans americans will continue to wait and save and suffer until srs is recognized as a medical necessity ... if we say that kosilek's surgery isn't necessary, we aid and abet the insurance companies that don't…

no ... not offensive, not in the least

well, that's the thing ... in this country, gender reassignment is most often not covered by one's health insurance (assuming one is a lucky ducky and has health insurance) ... it is excluded as "cosmetic" or "elective" surgery ... and i think that we feed that beast of neglect when we say that this inmate doesn't need…

no, i absolutely did not ... and, as i have already stated on the jez record, i think that michelle kosilek's crime was an abomination and that she deserves to spend the rest of her life behind bars ... but i do believe that, had kosilek received early support and treatment for her "gender identity disorder" (i hate…

this convicted murderer grew up trapped in the same society that forces "transgendered youth into prostitution in order to pay for bits and pieces of the physical changeover" ... but instead of prostitution, she resorted to trying to live as a man ... and while there is no doubt that her crime was an abomination, and…

i don't know michelle kosilek, but given that the murder of his wife was motivated, at least in part, by his desire to start living as a woman (the first thing he did after killing his wife was go on a girl shopping spree), i cannot just slough off the "psychologically necessary" bit ... for all we know, had she been…

i don't doubt that michelle kosilek's reassignment surgery would be medically necessary to her as a free women seeking to live a full life, but in an american prison system where inmates barely receive basic medical care and little or no rehabilitative therapy, and where there is little protection for heterosexual,…

well, they do seem to be jumping off from the amazing story of how jeff was in l.a. playing guitar with a bunch of indie bands and attending the musician's institute (think devry for musicians) and kind of had no idea what he was getting into when he accepted an invite to nyc for his dad's anniversary memorial and…

there are probably dozens of projects to which badgley might have been an asset, and he has tons of acting experience, but casting him as jeff buckley is like having will ferrell play elvis ... maybe the uber-talented and experienced ferrrell could serve the script, entertain, and even manage a passable tune, but if…

i don't know that jgl has the angel vox range of jeff, but he sure as hell has the soul and is a passionate, skilled musician with the jeff-worthy, eclectic musical sensibilities

golly, that never occurred to me! clearly, you are a much cleverer person than i

oh, man ... i still get the blues a couple of weeks every may ... remembering that such extraordinary beauty and soul were lost so soon, when ugliness and banality live on and on ... it's how i know that there cannot be a god

penn badgley singing as jeff buckley is beyond comprehension and an insult to buckley's memory ... jeff buckley's voice was one-in-a-billion extraordinary (he once sang the aria ”dido's lament” at the meltdown rock fest, and you could have heard a pin drop among the spellbound audience) ... no wonder the film doesn't…

so many people resent celebrities' ability to get around substance abuse and reckless driving laws, but we've seen time and again that such indulgences can send a troubled celeb to an early grave

i was wondering if the disparity was a function of contemporary weight-control methods and/or the recent popularity of the anorexic look ... but 40 years of studies suggests otherwise ... and i am stunned to hear there's a weight advantage among trauma victims

they also say that sociopaths gravitate toward politics, being narcissistic power freaks ... sociopathology would certainly explain so many rethugs' inability to empathize with the hungry families they want to deprive of food stamps, the women they want to keep barefoot and pregnant, and the brown families they want…

you're right ... to hell with lightlife and their overwhelmingly vegan product line that has saved countless critters from slaughter, being chucked in a chopper, and/or removed from their mothers ... and they don't get any brownie points for the expense and thought they have expended installing solar and…

yeah, cows are turning vegetables into meat, but cows needs a hell of a lot of resources to do it ... like, a pound of beef requires 100 times more water to produce than a pound of grain ... cow waste, whether from farting, pooping or post-death processing, creates a lot of additional pollution ... and, of course, a…

almost all of lightlife meat substitutes are vegan, while their frozen entrees are not ... i do not know where they source their eggs and dairy, but given that they are obsessive about having a low carbon footprint and non-gmo ingredients, i'm pretty sure that they are not getting their non-vegan ingredients from some…