Archive for June, 2012
« Previous EntriesSomething beautiful out of a bad situation
Friday, June 29th, 2012Tweet By now, we should all know about Tyler Clementi, and his tragic suicide due to his college roommates “prank” of recording a video of Tyler making out with another man. But there’s a new chapter to the story, and this one brings hope. Tyler’s parents have set up “The Tyler Clementi Foundation” to help [...]
Texas GOP: Let’s repeal the 1965 Voting Rights Act
Wednesday, June 27th, 2012Tweet The good people over at ThinkProgress.org had strong enough stomachs to read the entire Texas GOP platform for 2012. One nugget that was in there, was Texas GOP’s desire to repeal the 1965 Voting Rights Act. I’m sorry – isn’t Texas one of the 9 states that had such egregious acts that kept minorities [...]
Minnesota anti-equality group to gays: You should be put to death
Wednesday, June 27th, 2012Tweet Something really interesting happened over at the Minnesota for Marriage Facebook page yesterday. Someone posted a verse from the Christian bible chapter “Leviticus” that calls on gays to be put to death. And the outcome? Their supporters loved it. There were 30 likes by the time a screenshot was captured, and over 50 as I write [...]
A picture is worth $1.5Million
Tuesday, June 26th, 2012Tweet Especially when it’s this picture. And so very, very true…
Marriage equality: Good for public health!
Tuesday, June 26th, 2012Tweet You know all those people who yell and scream at gay people for wanting the same rights and responsibilities as their straight counterparts? You know – the haters at NOM and FRC and such. They keep warning that, besides the sky falling, that gay people achieving equality will be a detriment to society. Actually [...]
Justice Scalia needs to recuse himself from any non-white Supreme Court cases
Tuesday, June 26th, 2012Tweet This is pretty awful… In writing his 22 page dissent of the Arizona SB 1070 “Papers, please!” law, Supreme Court Justice Scalia actually cited pro-slavery laws that excluded freed blacks to justify his opinion. Seriously. So it seems Scalia is still of the mind that whites can still own blacks, if he’s citing that [...]
So a Republican finally admits it
Monday, June 25th, 2012Tweet All along, people “in the know” have known that the only reason Republicans push for identification to vote – putting up the laws that require showing some sort of picture ID in order to cast a ballot – have been to suppress Democratic turnout. Why? Because it’s just simple. The people most apt to [...]
“Let’s pistol whip some nuns!”
Monday, June 25th, 2012Tweet Is that an inflammatory statement? Of course it is. But it was said (though I’ve paraphrased) by a radio host when he was interviewing a Republican Congressional member last week. And what was said lawmaker’s (Rep. Tom Latham, R-IA) response? He laughed and said, “It’s always fun to be on your show.” Don’t believe [...]
Coming to an agreement for all mankind
Monday, June 25th, 2012Tweet We have to do something about our present course of energy use. There’s already a “tipping point” article that scared the hell out of me the other day (you can read it here). So we need to do something! This weekend I was reading a story that popped up in my Google “keywords” news alert for airplanes. [...]
A Sad Anniversary
Sunday, June 24th, 2012Tweet Turns out today, Sunday June 24th, 2012, is the 39th anniversary of the largest mass-murder of gay men in the history of the United States. Back on this day in 1973, someone firebombed the Upstairs Lounge in New Orleans that was holding church services for the Metropolitan Community Church – one of the only [...]
