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High Court Grants Marriage Rights For Same-Sex Couples — Courant.com
The state Supreme Court’s 4-3 decision Friday that same-sex couples have the right to marry swept through the state with the force of a cultural tidal wave.
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The Supreme Court released its historic ruling at 11:30 a.m. Citing the equal protection clause of the state constitution, the [...]

ABC News: Exclusive: Inside Account of U.S. Eavesdropping on Americans
Despite pledges by President George W. Bush and American intelligence officials to the contrary, hundreds of US citizens overseas have been eavesdropped on as they called friends and family back home, according to two former military intercept operators who worked at the giant National Security Agency [...]

Sexual Orientation of McCain’s Senate Chief of Staff Revealed - News - LA Weeklypage 1 - LA Weekly
“Log Cabin claims [McCain] didn’t believe in making gay people second-class citizens. But that’s not what he said. He said we don’t need [the amendment] right now, but if the Defense of Marriage Act doesn’t work, maybe I’ll [...]

Joe. My. God.: Proud Parenting Says “No On 8″
from Proud Parenting, kids that are just kids like everyone else, that have gay parents.
Joe. My. God. : First TV Ad from No On 8
Real parents, talking about their kids.  One happens to be gay, but that doesn’t mean that they shouldn’t have the same rights
Putting a [...]

Genesis 1 - LOLCat Bible Translation Project
Ceiling Cat creats teh universes and stuffs
Boreded Ceiling Cat makinkgz Urf n stuffs
1 Oh hai. In teh beginnin Ceiling Cat maded teh skiez An da Urfs, but he did not eated dem.
2 Da Urfs no had shapez An haded dark face, An Ceiling Cat rode invisible bike over teh [...]

Ian’s Shoelace Site - Shoe Lacing Methods
Criss Cross Lacing
This is probably the most common method of lacing normal shoes and boots. The laces simply criss-cross as they work their way up the shoe.
Friday’s run in the woods turned into a run in the fields, which turned into a climb through the woods to get back [...]

» Orson Scott Card Wants YOU (To Rise Up Against The Gay Menace) | Cracked.com
There is no question, absolutely none at all, that you are fighting a battle you can’t win. In a hundred years, flamboyant gay guys will be getting married in fabulous dresses on your grave, and there’s absolutely nothing you can do [...]

Joe. My. God.: Worst Person In The World: Stuart Shepard
Last night Keith Olbermann tapped Shepard as the “Worst Person In The World.”
Keith Olbermann is apparently kinda funny as well, in that sarcastic newscaster way that makes MSNBC watchable.
see Prayin for Rain

frontline: assault on gay america: how ‘homophobic’ are you?
In 1996, as part of his study on homophobia, Dr. Henry Adams and his colleagues at the University of Georgia developed their own “Homophobia Scale” by modifying scales used by other researchers in earlier studies. It’s a 25-item questionnaire “designed to measure your thoughts, feelings and behaviors [...]

SWAT team raids mayor, shoots family dog because someone mailed them pot - Boing Boing
Cheye Calvo, mayor of DC suburb Berwyn Heights, was raided by a SWAT team after 30lbs of marijuana was delivered to his home. They broke down his door, shot his two black labradors, and interrogated him and his wife as their [...]

GUEST BLOG: Socks - A History at Puntabulous
When I was a kid you could always tell the “have” kids from the “have not” kids by their socks. If their socks stayed up around their calves they were definitely “have” kids. If, on the other hand, their socks slid down around their ankles they were poor, [...]

P G & E Donates $250,000 to Defeat California Gay Marriage Ban - Towleroad
Pacific Gas & Electric has donated $250,000 to defeat Proposition 8, the anti-gay marriage ballot measure in California, according to the L.A. Times
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Joe. My. God.: WordPerfect Founder Bruce Bastian Pledges $1M To Fight Prop 8
Utah resident and WordPerfect cofounder Bruce Bastian has [...]

AccuWeather.com
Fitness Weather
Running Index

They have indexes for damn near everything; mosquitoes, barbecuing, dog walking, hair frizz, in addition to the regular Air Quality, UV, Arthritis, and Pollen indexes.
Today’s Running index was very good, which was good because we ran on the track today to try to get some sun. Hopefully my farmer’s tan isn’t quite [...]

Dr. Bronner’s: Keeping it cool! - Green Daily
There is a post about Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps on Green Daily so I felt that now is a perfect time to tell the world that I love the crazy Dr.’s soaps.
I buy the big 32oz containers of it at Lori’s Natural Foods and just refill the more [...]

Apple - iPod + iTunes
The new iTunes apparently has a sweet new feature. If you need your soundcard uninstalled and drivers deleted, just install iTunes and it will do it for you. iTunes upgrades have so far deleted the soundcards 2 for 2 where it has been installed at work. It still [...]