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» 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
and
Joe. My. God.: WordPerfect Founder Bruce Bastian Pledges $1M To Fight Prop 8
Utah resident and WordPerfect cofounder Bruce Bastian has [...]

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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 [...]

Joe. My. God.: Schwarzenegger On Meet The Press
MR. BROKAW: You have a lot of propositions on the ballot again this fall. One of them would mean a constitutional ban on gay marriages. Do you support that?
GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER: No, not at all. As a matter of fact, I think the Supreme Court made a decision there. [...]

I’ll be honest. I read the internet at work. My job occasionally has downtime and when it does no one is being harmed by a quick blog read or blog post.
Lots of blogs are starting to get video posts, and I don’t approve. BoingBoing TV or whatever? I don’t think I have [...]

5:01 PM - Towleroad, More than gay news for more gay men
At 5:01pm today, history will be made as gay and lesbian couples begin marrying in California, led symbolically by the marriage of Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, the couple of 50 years who were first married in San Francisco City Hall in 2004
(their 2004 [...]

J.K. Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement : Harvard Magazine
So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that [...]

I taught a session today on using Outlook rules to sort your e-mail. I use them extensively to put mail in folders in both my personal and work accounts.
Later people said they used Outlook Express, Apple Mail, OWA, Thunderbird, etc. I sometimes feel bad that I am a nerd that finds Microsoft products [...]

The US has them. I don’t really have the energy to address them though; so go to towelroad or joe. my. god. for your fix.
Kevin started listening to happy hardcore trance again lately, so I dived back into my music collections for some trance / house music that I also enjoy.
I think the hardest [...]