A conversation with inkyumbrella made me realize - BSG contains one attempted suicide (Boomer), one dream suicide (Tyrol), one successful suicide (Dualla), one person saved from death who didn't want to be (Lee), and one... deliberately letting your ship blow up, which I class in a similar category. Add to that a rather graphic suicide attempt from the ( Read more... )

The Obama administration will no longer defend the constitutionality of DOMA


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This caused sedvictacatoni and I to yell so loudly we scared the cat.

All 95 Candidates Who Pledged Support For Net Neutrality Lost On TuesdayLook up net neutrality to have some idea of just how bad this is ( Read more... )

I would like to propose that the president is exactly right when he said, "slaves sitting around the campfire didn't know when slavery was going to end, but they knew that it would. And it took a long time to end slavery." Yes it did. But, it also took a long time to start slavery. And it started small. And it started with seemingly innocent ideas ( Read more... )

From the FBI arrests of supposed covert Russian agents:
In Cambridge, Mass., the couple known as Donald Heathfield and Tracey Foley, who appeared to be in their 40s and had two teenage sons, lived in an apartment building on a residential street where some Harvard professors and students live.

soda_and_capes and I are sitting here going "OH MY GOD ( Read more... )

Democrats propose national ID with biometric information.

HELL FUCKING NO.

Bonus quote: “The biometric identification card is a critical element here,” Durbin said. “For a long time it was resisted by many groups, but now we live in a world where we take off our shoes at the airport and pull out our identification ( Read more... )

So, almost-certain election fraud in Iran aside, I saw the defense brief the Obama administration is putting forward in an anti-DOMA case last night. And I nearly exploded.

The full brief, plus summary is here. However, I'm going to copy+past the most egregious points here. Because I think people should know.

DOMA is constitutional (thus ( Read more... )

This NYT op-ed is guarenteed to make you feel proud and fuzzy inside. Even if your heart is black and hard like mine.
Biracial gay man talks about how Iowa was one of the few states that would let his parents marry in the 1950s, and now it's one of the few states that will let him marry.