I was going to post something cute about maypoles and how Rites of Spring is eating my brain, but it turns out that Osama bin Ladin is dead and my corner of the social media universe seems torn between rejoicing (a minority position, I think) and telling other people to stop rejoicing.

( So instead I get all serious on you )

From dilletante:


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Today is the National Transgender Day of Rememberance. What is remembered lives.

Marriages among slaves were not legally recognized. You know, just like marriages today in California are not legally recognized, if the people are gay.(This is obviously a problematic and possibly offensive comparison in some ways -- no one thinks they own all queer people, as far as I know -- but is an interesting comparison between the ( Read more... )

There are a bunch of nice (and a few mediocre, IMHO) Obama photos here, but I think I like this one more than all the dramatic headshots.

Interesting paper from a Columbia stat prof, which alleges you'll likely be able to go to bed early tonight.

Upshot: if at 7 pm, we learn that McCain has swept IN, VA, and GA, Obama supporters should worry. If he hasn't, Obama is likely in the clear.

I hope that none of you need this information, but if you have any trouble at the polls, please do not hesitate to call 1-866-OUR-VOTE to contact Election Protection, or to encourage anyone you see having trouble to do the same. They are a non-partisan organization and will provide help regardless of who you might be voting for. Their website is ( Read more... )

And he wants to allow doctors and organizations to refuse to provide oral contraceptives by redefining them as abortifacents.

To learn more:
*Reproductive Health Reality Check (a liberal org)
*Reuters UK
*FITS News (a source so conservative they bash McCain)
*Nancy Pelosi's statement

To write an angry letter:
*Planned Parenthood

"[A]s omnivores--creatures that can eat just about anything nature has to offer and that in fact need to eat a wide variety of different things in order to be healthy-- the "What to eat" question is somewhat more complicated for us than it is for, say, cows. Yet for most of human history. humans have navigated the question without expert advice. ( Read more... )

Dear Fred Phelps:

I think God might hate you.

nolove,
me