July 2010
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“They are portraying this as a religious moral issue and as a threat to ‘the...”
– Argentinian President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner responding to protests over the legalization of same-sex marriage made by the Catholic Church.
What I wouldn’t give for a U.S. President with the courage to say the same.
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And in the First Season, that Country Didn't Even... →
…There are some shows that go completely beyond the pale of enjoyability, until they become nothing more than overwritten collections of tropes impossible to watch without groaning. I think the worst offender here is the History Channel and all their programs on the so-called “World War II”. Let’s start with the bad guys. Battalions of stormtroopers dressed in all black, check....
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Everything That Is Wrong With Our Media →
Sarah Palin releases a web video in which she pays women to dress like bears and pretend to maul socialism or something.
Cable news covers it ad nauseum, and justifies its coverage by saying everyone’s talking about it, even though “everyone” literally only means the people who are talking about how much everyone else is talking about it. The discussion of the discussion is then discussed on...
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Guess Who Hates You →
Gallagher gets a tin pie plate. He opens a giant can of fruit cocktail and pours it in. He opens a can of some Asian vegetable — water chestnuts, maybe — and pours that in, too. “This is the China people and queers!!!” he screams and takes his sledgehammer to the thing with a fury that is no fun at all.
No fun at all, and no joke at all in using a sledgehammer against a representation...
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The Saturday Profile - Icelander’s Campaign Is a... →
Last month, in the depressed aftermath of the country’s financial collapse, the Best Party emerged as the biggest winner in Reykjavik’s elections, with 34.7 percent of the vote, and Mr. Gnarr — who also promised a classroom of kindergartners he would build a Disneyland at the airport — is now the fourth mayor in four years of a city that is home to more than a third of the island’s 320,000 people.
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“The internet’s completely over. I don’t see why I should give my new...”
– Prince, on why he banned his music from iTunes and YouTube and closed down his personal site.
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“I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great...”
– Letter from a Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King, Jr., 1963
Every so often, I re-read this letter.
I ran across it again tonight, and this excerpt stood out to me as a parallel to my own frustrations at the the “civil unions for everyone” people or the “let’s do away with...
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“He inserted his male attachment into the female adapter, and watched his...”
– Tiger Beatdown › Fond Memories of Vagina: Martin Amis’ The Pregnant Widow
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Presidential scholars: Bush is the worst president... →
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“Keep in mind again, federal candidates, this was a war of Obama’s choosing. This...”
– RNC Chair Michael Steele
And only slightly less well known is this: never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line!
(Also? The war in Afganistan started in 2001, when Obama was a state senator in Illinois.)
June 2010
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Income Tax Fairness Stripped from N.Y. Budget Bill →
A proposal that would have granted married same-sex couples in New York the ability to file state income taxes jointly was stripped from a budget bill Tuesday following opposition by antigay Democrat Ruben Diaz, Sr.
…Remarkably, Diaz framed his opposition as an attempt to spare same-sex couples the “insulting” invitation to file taxes together when the state does not allow them to legally...
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Are Male Characters More Likable Than Female... →
For some time now, I’ve held the hypothesis that, to the majority of the American population, if not the majority of the population of Earth, male characters are automatically more likable than female characters. It seemed to me, based on my experience on the Interwebs, that many male characters were given a pass for deplorable behavior while female characters tended to be hated for the vague sin...
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“I love Pride. You’d think I wouldn’t. People. Crowds. Noise. Dancing. Only...”
– Dorothy Surrenders: My Weekend Pride
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“I’m sure there are even worse Sandler movies to come for future...”
– Grown Ups (2010) - Critics’ Reviews - MSN Movies
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“The assertion that Will [Phillips] is too young to have come to his own...”
– That Sound You Hear Is the Death Rattle of Dinosaurs
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What it's like to own an Apple product - The... →
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“Human rights are gay rights and gay rights are human rights.”
– Sec. of State Hillary Clinton, keeping her campaign promises even though she didn’t get elected.
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A Climate of Uncertainty for Gay Rights →
My awesomely smarty-pants wife has begun a tumblr devoted to LGBT equal rights. Digesting the news, explaining the issues, and of course a little bit of humor. Obviously, all much needed. Go Tiffs!
civillyunioned:
Very interesting article from Newsweek that underscored two major issues for me. First, the LGBT equality movement (sorry for turning it into some monolith, but here it is does mean...
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“So when I first tried Hey Baby, a new Web game that takes aim at catcalling and...”
– Video Game Review - In Hey Baby, Street Wolves Meet Their Match - NYTimes.com
“The post-9/11 “unity era” was an era in which people were told to...”
– That 9/12 Feeling
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“Mainstream journalists have taken great pains over the past year to distinguish...”
– The Spirited Atheist: The Reproductive Right - On Faith at washingtonpost.com
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May 2010
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“DOMA forces a charade where married couples have to pretend they are single,...”
– Mary Bonauto of GLAD (via civillyunioned) (via allinoneplace)
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Dolly Parton admits she lost a drag queen Dolly... →
Easily the best thing I’ve heard all day.
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Americans' Acceptance of Gay Relations Crosses 50%... →
No politician can ever again make the claim that the majority of Americans believe homosexuality is immoral as a reason for voting against us and denying us our equal rights.
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