Rational Optimist | John Miller | Hey Miller

Toomey is originally from Rhode Island and he retains the echo of a New Englander's accent. His father is a lifelong union man who still votes for Democrats. As a Harvard freshman in 1980, however, Toomey cast his first presidential ballot for Ronald Reagan. .... He refuses to endorse Wisconsin Republican Paul Ryan's “roadmap” for confronting the federal government's looming entitlement crisis, but points out that he and Ryan are former D.C. roommates. ...

Strange Horizons Reviews: The Red Tree by Caitlin R. Kiernan ...

When Sarah Crowe abruptly relocates to a farmhouse in Rhode Island, she is behind on delivery of her new novel and still reeling from the death of her lover, Amanda. She is thwarting doctors by smoking and drinking whiskey with her anti- seizure ... The professor (Dorry), Amanda, Sarah and her roommate (the painter Constance Hopkins) all gaze into that awesome, terrible face and ask the same set of questions: How do we know where the dream ends and truth begins? ...

The Old College Try: A dramedy about the end of college pits child ...

Directed by Karin Crighton, Commencement takes place in an off-campus house at the fictional, Rhode Island-based Sawyer College. Jeffrey Klein (Rodney Bonds), a 59-year-old magazine editor from Manhattan, has come for an impromptu visit on the eve of his daughter Danni's (Stacey Bonds, ... Danni's roommate, Megan (Kelly Fuller), an uber-feminist lesbian film student, records the heated exchanges with her camera as she tries to catch the attractive Lianne's attention. ...

Elderly Gay Couple Separated by Sonoma County Officials, Ignoring ...

Instead, and like many older gay and lesbian couples, they relied on having drafted all the other appropriate legal documents naming each other as beneficiaries of their respective estates and agents for medical decisions and the like, ... Outrageously referring to Clay only as a “roommate” and failing to disclose their true relationship, the County continued to treat Harold as if he had no family. The County sought immediate temporary authority to revoke Harold's powers ...

The New Gay » Happy Birthday, Cher!

In Silkwood (1983), Cher really proved her chops as an actress, playing the lesbian roommate and friend of Karen Silkwood, the real-life figure who fought for the justice of herself and fellow coworkers at an unsafe plant in Oklahoma. ... The three lead women live in the small and quaint town of Eastwick, Rhode Island, unhappy about the state of their lives and their relationships with men. One night over drinks, the women speak their recipe for the perfect man, ...