Hello, my name is Stephanie, and I play in Gay Band. (The Minnesota Freedom Band, to be precise, but I am an alum of the Blazing River Freedom Band and I have also marched with the gay bands in Rochester and Chicago ( Read more... )

Prop 8 has been overturned by a District Court judgeFirst, I'd like to share a couple sentences of glee from the ruling ( Read more... )

I understand that Target has recently donated $150K to Tom Emmer's campaign, and he's a slimebag of epic proportions. I'd love to boycott everyone who made giant donations to the campaigns of slimebags of epic proportions, but I can't ( Read more... )

So it's Blogging Against Disablism DayI don't have any personal stories to tell about being disabled--I'm not, and I'm not going to say what happened in college or a hip that causes me pain every six weeks or so really gives me any clue as to what being a person with disabilities is like, because that would be pretty ridiculous. Nor do I have any ( Read more... )

OFFS, Jamie Oliver, does it not occur to you that THERE ARE POOR PEOPLE IN THE WORLD WHO BUY PROCESSED CHICKEN NUGGETS BECAUSE THAT'S ALL THEY CAN AFFORD ( Read more... )

Some of my best friends are veterans. -- Yeah, okay, I just wanted to say that, but of the six or eight people I hang around with at law school, three of them are ex-military: two Air Force guys and an ex-Marine gal. The ex-Marine (Coco; not her real name) is starting a student group on campus for military sorts: the Law School Armed Forces ( Read more... )

I don't have a fun link or anything, but let's end (sexually-motivated) violence against women, please ( Read more... )