Month: April 2010

  • Traditional Definition of Divorce

    Oh Texas please just stop already: That left her fighting both the woman she married in Massachusetts and the state of Texas, which says a union granted in a state where same-sex marriage is legal can’t be dissolved with a divorce in a state where it’s not. A judge in Austin granted the divorce, but […]

  • How Sonoma County CA Completely Obliterated One Gay Couple's Rights

    They had the paperwork. They’d created the legal framework. They had done every single thing they possibly could to ensure that as they aged they would be able to take care of one another. This makes me very angry. Clay and Harold made diligent efforts to protect their legal rights, and had their legal paperwork […]

  • Service Dogs Help War Vets Integrate

    Totally awesome: The dogs to whom they credit their improved health are not just pets. Rather, they are psychiatric service dogs specially trained to help traumatized veterans leave the battlefield behind as they reintegrate into society… In dozens of interviews, veterans and their therapists reported drastic reductions in P.T.S.D. symptoms and in reliance on medication […]

  • Jesuits Are Pissed

    Comment from a thread on Metafilter  – completely unsubstantiated but I know some of my network knows Jesuits and Franciscans – be interesting to see if there’s any truth: I have a friend who’s a member of the Jesuit order and a teacher. They’re not saying anything publicly. They’re not making statements yet. But my friend […]

  • Dichotomies and Clown Cars

    A frequent theme I see in discussions between conservatives and liberal points of view is a lack of empathy. That my circumstances are different so I still get to get mine and screw everybody else. A lack of understanding that we are all a cancer diagnosis away from complete financial ruin. The fantasy that one […]

  • Gay Singer Verbally Stoned By Fundies

    Christian musician and songwriter Jennifer Knapp recently came out of the closet. Fans respond: Gay Christians? There IS NO SUCH THING! You’re either ONE or the OTHER. NOT judging nor condemning, simply TELLING IT LIKE IT IS!” Exclamation points are usually signs of judgement and/or condemnation. And it’s fun how all the ‘God will judge […]

  • apirocks.com

    Nerd alert. Good intro for those of us tracking this. apirocks.com

  • 100k in CA Lose Unemployment Benefits

    Maybe now they’ll stuff living off the nannystate and get a job: (I’m kidding) A modern record in California, no one wanted to see.  Friday, our state’s unemployment rate is 12.6 percent. Millions of you are without jobs and tens of thousands of people are about to lose unemployment benefits. While the new unemployment rate is […]

  • A Muppet Day

    A technician recounts working with the Muppets: When you work with the Muppeteers, they go to great lengths to keep the characters, well, pure. The “deanimated” characters are always kept in a black satin bag, and when the move is made the place the muppet on the hand of the animator, there always seems to […]

  • Two Poles, One Knight

    Sir David Attenborough is on the badass list: At the age of 83 and with two dodgy knees, Sir David endured blizzards and narrowly avoided calamity on cracking ice to reach the North Pole. Sir David reached the North Pole only six weeks after a gruelling trip to the South Pole, a location he had reached […]