Kate Clinton

Kate Clinton is a faith-based, tax-paying, America-loving political humorist and family entertainer. With a career spanning over 25 years, Kate Clinton has worked through economic booms and busts, Disneyfication and Walmartization, gay movements and gay markets, lesbian chic and queer eyes, and ten presidential inaugurals. She still believes that humor gets us through peacetime, wartime and scoundrel time.
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It is two weeks since the election of Barack Obama. It is still true. »

By Kate Clinton, November 19, 2008

It makes me smile every morning. Then I read the paper about the Armageddon that is our financial system and it harshes my mellow. But after CA, AZ, FL Prop Hates, it has been a shallow mellow.read more

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A Bittersweet Night »

By Kate Clinton, November 10, 2008

While the American family and our extended international family were whooping it up for the historic Obama victory, I banged pans and wept for joy with the best of them.read more

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Kate Clinton Calls for Gay Work Slowdown if Prop 8 Passes »

By Kate Clinton, October 30, 2008

Hairdressers will mistakenly lay hot curling irons down on ears. Social workers will give bad advice, “Your father sounds like a great guy. Show him some love.” Waiters will serve cold food and suggest the wrong wine.read more

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Financial and Homeland Insecurities »

By Kate Clinton, October 13, 2008

Though I have not looked, I bet you twenty dollars my 401K looks like the Y2K. Actually, make that five dollars. I have been treating my 01K as I treat any new weird sound in my old Jeep. I just turn up the radio.read more

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Palin-Biden Debate: A Wink and a Nod »

By Kate Clinton, October 3, 2008

Sadly the only moment of unanimity of the night was that both candidates oppose gay marriage. After all our LGBT support and hard work for the Obama-Biden ticket, it was sickening. Mind if I call you chicken, Joe?read more

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I Can See Manchuria »

By Kate Clinton, September 29, 2008

My head feels like the terrorists have won.

Last Friday, we went to a friend’s house for dinner and the debate. My galpal was quickly driven out of the TV room by McCain’s smarmy opening gambit about Ted Kennedy’s hospitalization. Unable to sit still, she nervously cleaned our friend’s kitchen to a gleam it had not seen in years.read more

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Sarah Palin is so beside the point. »

By Kate Clinton, September 21, 2008

We haven’t got time for Sarah “Operation Distraction” Palin. John McCain, or as we call him in our house, God Forbid, answered a question about Spain with all the loopiness of Miss Teen South Carolina when asked why one-fifth of Americans could not locate the U.S. on a map. Such as.read more

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Pig Lipstick by L’Oreal »

By Kate Clinton, September 12, 2008

I am a Vagina-American but I could care less about possible president Palin’s insane family, her glasses, her hockey momness or darling husband. Let L’Oreal come out with a new line of pig lipstick. I don’t care.read more

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Mourning Sickness* »

By Kate Clinton, September 8, 2008

*This is a Palin-free space. After the Republican White Party, I thought we could all use a break. And I am sure this nausea will pass soon.read more

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Remember Del Martin »

By Kate Clinton, September 6, 2008

She was an amazing, dare I say it, “community organizer” for our LGBT rights.read more

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Infrequent Flier Smiles »

By Kate Clinton, August 21, 2008

Reducing my carbon footprint in Ptown, and breathing in the fried scallops as I go on my bike.read more

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The Rodney Dangerfield of Nations »

By Kate Clinton, August 17, 2008

There was our Spectator-in-Chief excoriating Russia for its preemptive strike into Georgia. You could practically hear the world snorting.read more

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Don't Hold Your Breath »

By Kate Clinton, August 7, 2008

Put on a happy face. George has left the country.read more

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Kate Clinton: Ptown GPS »

By Kate Clinton, July 24, 2008

One of the big controversies in Provincetown this summer involves complaints by fifty-third generation descendants of Puritan about nudity and public sex in the far reaches of the Herring Cove Dunes.read more

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Wildcatting »

By Kate Clinton, July 17, 2008

Bush treats SUVs like SVUs.read more

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