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“I can understand being against gay marriage — if they decided to make it mandatory,” he said. “This isn’t a cultural divide: They’re wrong.”
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The so-called “gay agenda” that social conservatives allege subverts family values got this treatment:
“Here’s the gay agenda,” he said. “They’d like to get married … and fight in the military and march [...]

EntirelyPets Discount Pet meds Pet Supplies & Flea Medicine
I  bought Dexter some worm pills as well as some flea/tick pills from Entirely Pets.com  They were a cheap site that had lots of good reviews on whatever site I was using (I honestly don’t remember, it was earlier this week).  I bought a 12 pack of [...]

In a new study, 186 four-year-olds were given regular carrots and, on other lunch days, they were given the same vegetables renamed X-ray Vision Carrots. On the latter days, they ate nearly twice as many.
via Kids Prefer Veggies With Cool Names.
I prefer my title to theirs.

Said Frank to WBZ: “[Scalia's judicial writing] makes it very clear that he thinks gay people are a threat to the society — it’s an angry, anti-gay opinion…What a ‘homophobe’ means is someone who has prejudice about gay people…..While I support same-sex marriage, I do not think if you’re against it you’re homophobic…I don’t think [...]

A Fort Lupton couple says they have so much natural gas in their water they can light it on fire.
Jesse and Amee Ellsworth say the gas has been leaking into their water well from a nearby gas well for the last six months. They say the gas companies are working on a well water treatment [...]

Fox news has become the parody of the parody of itself.
via Fox Attacks Barney Frank for Calling Scalia a ‘Homophobe’ – Towleroad
FOX news attacks Barney Frank for calling Antonin Scalia — a man who has said that gay kindergarten teachers might “induce” children to become homosexuals, has compared homosexuality to murder, cruelty to animals, or [...]

CNN Turns Focus to GOP Congressman Aaron Schock’s Abs – Towleroad, More than gay news. More gay men.
Too bad so far he seems to be an uber conservative.
It’s gotta be tough being in the public eye, they have footage of him working out at the gym in a CBS piece on him.  Granted, I bet [...]

Joe. My. God.: Meghan McCain Supports Gay Marriage.
Everyone knows that Republicans are crazy and evil, but Meghan McCain is the new kind of good republican (I know, its confusing that they exist) so I am calling for all old Republicans to voluntarily die already and let the party move on.

Kev and I went to Toronto for the weekend, it was awesome.
Still have to unpack, but I am relaxing on the in-tar-webs before I get to that, it was a long day.  We went to the Toronto Zoo today, and there was quick a bit of walking, then lunch then an almost 3 hour drive [...]

FOR generations, vacationers in Maine and visitors to Pennsylvania’s Amish country have found a simple black and white snack in restaurants and convenience shops and on nearly every gas station counter: whoopie pies.
via Whoopie! Cookie, Pie or Cake, It’s Having Its Moment – NYTimes.com.
Every week Dad gets whoopie pies for mom at Eastern Market in [...]

“Campfield filed, the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill, which would essentially ban teachers from talking about the topic.
via TN Lawmaker Stacey Campfield Reintroduces Homophobic School Bill – Towleroad
Obviously the best way to protect the children is to not talk about difficult topics.  Perhaps we should stop telling kids about drugs, they might want to learn more.  [...]

Said Bond: “When someone asks me, ‘are gay rights civil rights?’ my answer is always, ‘Of course, they are.’ Civil rights are positive legal prerogatives: the right to equal treatment before the law. These are the rights shared by everyone. There is no one in the United States who does not, or should not, enjoy [...]

Penny Arcade! – Progress.
Check out the new wireless reading platform over @ Penny Arcade.
One of my co-workers hangs library themed comics on the door that leads from staff areas to the public areas and this comic is currently hanging on the door.  It definately made me lol.
I like web comics, I just like to read [...]

Mar 16
St. Urho’s Day, Patron saint of Finnish vineyard workers. Attributed to him is the miracle of banishing grasshoppers from Finland which he accomplished with a few choice Finnish phrases, thereby saving the season’s grape crop. But in reality a bunch of very drunk people made this up in 1956.
via Daily Rotten: Weird News.
Crap, I [...]

A friendly competition between the crisp sweetness of red peppers and the classic sweetness of farm-grown tomatoes.
via V8 Soups – Sweet Red Pepper.
I just had a big bowl (from a Tetra Pack style carton type thing) of the Sweet Red Pepper soup as a complement to my earlier lunch of a protein shake and a [...]