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Two parents are suing the Alameda County school district in California because they don’t want kids to be taught that it’s wrong to beat up gay kids.
Lesson 9 is a once a year 45-minute presentation that suggests respect for all students. THAT is what they are suing about.
via Joe. My. God.: [...]

Under pressure, the NCAA pulled the ad yesterday:”The decision by the NCAA came in response to vocal protests from a small number of advocates for gay and lesbian athletes, who complained that the group’s views that homosexuality and abortion are immoral are inconsistent with the NCAA’s stated nondiscrimination policy. ‘Focus [...]

2009–10 Toyota vehicle recalls – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
I am sick of people complaining and whining about Toyota.  The first recall was because a dealer put the WRONG mats in a Lexus and they got stuck against the pedal.  They recalled 3.8 million vehicles voluntarily because it’s possible to install the wrong [...]

Full Episode | February 1, 2010 – Austan Goolsbee | The Daily Show.
Last night’s Daily show was pretty awesome.  Jon Stewart brought his a game and it was pretty funny.
The moment of zen really was awesome, its from the same roundtable discussion as Krugman calls FOX News ‘deliberate misinformation’ to Roger Ailes’ face

YouTube – Olbermann Slams Limbaugh And Robertson For Sick Comments.

via JMG

An Illinois judge has decided that an anonymous commenter on a newspaper website will be unmasked, even though the mother of a teen about whom “Hipcheck16″ allegedly made “deeply disturbing” comments hasn’t yet decided whether to sue over the posting.
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Although Lawrence ruled that Hipcheck16’s identity must be revealed to Stone—and to a process server, should [...]

DidGlennBeckRapeAndMurderAYoungGirlIn1990.com.
Glenn Beck is a crazy nutjob who spreads rumors by saying something horrible that can’t be disproved, like saying that a muslim democrat might be working with terrorists, because it can’t be disproved does not in any way make it true.
An internets meme started and someone registered the domain name above to show a point [...]

We are watching the daily show and a popup came up on the dvr saying to press the A button to order Observe and Report. We couldn’t see the whole ad because the standard def signals are cropped a bit but I had to pick up the remote to press exit to get it [...]

ChristWire.
The thing about ChristWire is that they do a good job.  A really good job.  What job?  The hardest part about dealing with the ultraconservatives is that their rhetoric is so difficult to tell apart from someone making fun of them.  The Colbert Report is case in point.
ChristWire does such a good job I doubt [...]

Allergan (maker of Restasis), Ally Bank (a unit of GMAC Financial Services), Best Buy, Broadview Security, CVS, Re-Bath, Travelocity and Wal-Mart join the dozen other companies who previously distanced themselves from Beck. Twenty companies have pulled their ads from Beck’s show in just the last two weeks. The moves come after the Fox News host [...]

The best part about being a girl is your girlfriends. They keep you happy when you’re sad and make you laugh when you want to cry, and most importantly, tell you what to buy.
via Sarah Haskins in Target Women: Lady friends // Current.
It is funny, watch it silly ladies.

Kev and I were talking the other day about who owned what on TV, and I finally remembered to try to look it up.  I don’t think they want you to know what all each mega corp owns.
All those hundreds of TV channels may lead you that there’s a true diversity and variety in today’s [...]

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 [...]

So we watch msnbc now, Keith Olberman and more entertainingly, Rachel Maddow.
Anyway they are talking about the two journalists who have been arrested in North Korea. And all they can talk about is how they need to get them back and how terrible it is. They talk about how right now they at [...]

YouTube – ACLU Responds to Prop 8 Loss.

via JMG and Towleroad.
The only way to win this fight is through education (and also, waiting for all the bigots to die, but that takes longer) and Empire State Pride Agenda has a new video calling for equal treatment for all families featuring more real live gay people [...]