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California Prop 8 has been ruled unconstitutional AGAIN.
“Proposition 8 served no purpose, and had no effect, other than to lessen the status and human dignity of gays and lesbians in California,” the court said.
Prop. 8: Gay-marriage ban unconstitutional, court rules
You know, I guess I am lucky.
I mean, yes, Texas did produce Governor Goodhair (aka Rick Perry) who does bring a special kind of stupid, but at least I don’t live in Oklahoma, where state lawmakers spend all of their time rolling around in the crazy – case in point, one state lawmaker has written a bill to prohibit the manufacturing or selling products made from aborted human fetuses (because you know, that’s a multi-billion dollar industry).
Seems this shaved ape (apologies to all apes out there) is worried that someone might use stem cells from “aborted fetuses” in developing food. As they say in the video clip, “This legislation is intended to ban all products made using aborted human fetuses.”
He heard about this because of “articles he read online”.
Riiiiiiiiiiight (psssst, get the dart gun and straight jacket)
Don’t believe me? Â Watch the news coverage of this here.
I’ve completed a complete rebuild of my server and everything is shiny and new. Let’s see what I can do with this.
Overheard while walking downtown: “I don’t like, have a *job*, but like I *do* things.”
Ah, bless the hipsters boys trying to impress hipster girls.
Where would we be without this gentleman?
Teacher, inventor, pioneer in photochemistry, discovered two elements (caesium and rubidium), investigator of emission spectra and finally an early worker in the field of organoarsenic chemistry.
Obviously, for someone who lived in the 1800s, I could never have met him, but I feel I would have enjoyed meeting him, and getting to take a class under him would have been a major bonus.
Robert Bunsen, thank you for making the world a better place for your having been here.
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Today is the street date for Seanan McGuires newest book in her October Daye series, Late Eclipses. The series is great, the books are a fun read and I strongly suggest that everyone in the world needs to go out and buy this book today. (Full disclosure, I am a email pal with Seanan McGuire, and also enjoy her music and art, so I just might be a bit biased) |
*drool*
I want this house, car, and superphones!
This is the kind of world that I dreamed about as a kid.
It’s the end of an era.
My thoughts and prayers are with the crew and their families.
According to the TSA, you only have these options.
Edit to include Rep. Sharon Cissna’s account of the events of 20 February 2011.
Have I got a unicorn chaser for you.
I discovered a new musician this morning. Harrison Cosmo Krikoryan Jarvis, who performs under the name Cosmo Jarvis. Born in New Jersey, he moved to Devon in the UK as a child, and as a result, the residents of the US lost a really interesting performer.
Well, this evidently straight but not narrow artist wrote and performed a song about a young gay pirate and the man that he loves.
Here is a snippet of the lyrics
Yo-ho, Sebastian
Let’s go far away
Somewhere where the captain won’t be mad.
Yo-ho, Sebastian
I want to love you good
We deserve much better than we’ve had.They say they’re gonna kill me
If i look at you once more.
Pissed in my hammock yesterday,
So I’ll sleep on the floorI’d be under the sea,
but you hold me above.They put glass on my sandals,
So my feet would bleed all day,
And they forced me to wear them,
Or they said they’d make you payI’d be under the sea,
but you hold me above.
‘Cos you’re the man i love
So not only did he write and record this song, but then he comes up with an idea for a music video for it, he then films, directs, and stars in the video himself.
And in an interview on After Elton he said the following things which I found really telling.
AfterElton: How did you come up with the idea of writing a song about gay pirates?
Cosmo Jarvis: You know the stereotype of pirates — these gruff dudes who can take anything, they live on maggot-infested biscuits in the middle of the sea, they whip each other, they’re really tough guys.So if one in ten guys today is gay, then one in ten guys back then must have been gay, so I was just thinking there must have been gay pirates, although pirates were very tolerant toward homosexuals for the most part. But if you did end up on a boat in the middle of the ocean and you can’t run anywhere and everybody is totally against the idea of you having a partner on the boat, I felt that it was the worst thing that could happen to somebody who was gay.
. . .
AE: You play one of the two gay pirates in the video, and while that shouldn’t be a big deal in 2010, I can see a lot of other musicians at the point you are in your career not doing it, or their management saying maybe you shouldn’t do that. You’re kissing the guy up on the stage. Did you ever think twice about it?
CJ: No. No way. Why would you? Nobody would think twice about kissing a girl. I’d be a shit actor if I was going to get up there and think twice about it. I have to tell their love story some way or another.It doesn’t bother me. I’ve never been shy about that kind of stuff. I’m not gay, but growing up we had this game called Gay Man Chicken, where two guys face each other, and go to kiss, to make out seriously, and whoever wimps out first is the one with the problem about being a homosexual. The guy who does it doesn’t have a problem with his sexuality, because it’s just kissing a guy. So it was just not a big deal.
. . .
"After all that, after all that hate and all that bullshit, but it’s still going to carry on. If they can get in front of us and just kiss, then maybe we should let this go."
So what we have here is a guy who is so cool, I would be proud to shake his hand. He deserves every bit of success in his life. Go show this guy some love and promote the hell out of him.