Tin Foil Soldier

Last week a PA State Senator had this to say
LEACH: How would he [Eichelberger] want to encourage stability in gay couples?
EICHELBERGER: I wouldn’t. I mean they can practice whatever sexual activity they like to practice, but there’s no reason to give them special consideration. We don’t give them special consideration in Pennsylvania for any reason. [...]

Saturday night, on the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots in NYC, police reportedly entered Fort Worth’s Rainbow Lounge gay bar and began arresting people with unnecessary force for public intoxication. Multiple first-hand accounts suggest that the arrests were random and unwarranted.
In all, seven were arrested and one remains hospitalized with a brain injury that [...]

romaine, cabbage, green onion, green pepper, celery, carrots, hard boiled egg, cubed: turkey breast, ham, Colby Jack
via salad for lunch on Flickr – Photo Sharing!.
Ugh, I wrote this post but wp screwed it up once again so here is a “mostly accurate” re-write:
Kev and I made salads last night for lunch today so we didn’t [...]

June 25th, 2009
Farrah Fawcett, who soared to fame as a national sex symbol in the late 1970s on television’s campy “Charlie’s Angels” and in a swimsuit poster that showcased her feathery mane and made her a generation’s favorite pinup, died Thursday. She was 62.
via Pop culture icon Farrah Fawcett dies at 62 – Los Angeles [...]

Today a friend asked me a question that the folks at Stanley tell me they hear all the time: why does the claw — you know, the little catch at the end of your short tape measure — move back and forth? Is it just poorly attached? The short answer: no, the loose claw is [...]

For the Summer, everyone’s favorite bakery, Sprinkles, has launched a new product: frozen frosting shots. Yes, your eyes do not deceive you. For $.75, at all Sprinkles locations, you can actually purchase a shot of frosting that’s frozen.
via Taste Test: Sprinkles Frozen Frosting Shots | frosting, icing, cupcakes | YumSugar – Recipes, Menus, Food & [...]

You might recall that Sanford earned his homophobic stripes for ordering the SC Parks, Recreation, and Tourism Department to stop an ad agreement with Amro Worldwide, a travel promoter, after it began to market the state to potential gay tourists. He said it wasn’t right to use state dollars to market to groups with a [...]

It takes two years after marrying an American before you can qualify for citizenship. If your spouse dies before then, you get sent home.
via Joe. My. God.: Napolitano Did What Obama Won’t.
Well that would suck.
So the head of the Department of Homeland Security can suspend the enforcement of the Widow’s Penalty in order to give [...]

You might have gone down the rabbit hole before. But never with a guide quite as attuned to the fantastic as Tim Burton.
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There is the usual Burton-esque ghoulishness (Helena Bonham Carter’s Red Queen, whose favorite retort is “Off with their heads,” has a moat filled with bobbing noggins), but Zanuck assures most kids can handle [...]

Won’t someone please think of the aliens!
“According to hitherto unconfirmed reports, both Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin saw UFOs shortly after their historic landing on the Moon in Apollo 11 on 21 July 1969. I remember hearing one of the astronauts refer to a “light” in or on a carter during the television transmission, [...]

HUNTINGTON BEACH – Colby Curtin, a 10-year-old with a rare form of cancer, was staying alive for one thing – a movie.
From the minute Colby saw the previews to the Disney-Pixar movie Up, she was desperate to see it. Colby had been diagnosed with vascular cancer about three years ago, said her mother, Lisa Curtin, [...]

Ryan Reynolds Gets Down to Skin for Entertainment Weekly – Towleroad

So, there is no way that I would want to see The Proposal based on its merits as a film, but I might watch it because Ryan Reynolds is nice to look at.  Turns out he is married to another supposed Hollywood “hottie” Scarlett Johansson.  [...]

Fleet Feet Sports Dirt Cheap Trail Series Presented by Salomon – Race #3
Wednesday June 17, 2009 Ellison Wetlands, Rochester, NY
210 Finishers( 80 Female, 129 Male, 1 Unknown )
Pos Bib Name                      Gender  [...]

not sure what happened, but Apache seems to have been hung, and it had the whole server tied up as it did its thing (or rather, didn’t do its thing)

So, I upgraded to Wordpress 2.8 yesterday, which went fine thanks to my script.
Then the Wordpress Stats plugin wanted to be upgraded.  Only problem is it only comes as a zip file and I haven’t had to unzip anything since I had to reinstall tinfoil.
Emerge -pv zip unzip
[ebuild  N    ] app-arch/zip-2.32-r1  USE=”crypt” 789 kB
[ebuild  [...]