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transgressions: or why enda should include gender identity and why everyone should care.
The Employment Non-Discrimination Act would create a blanket federal statute regulating employment throughout the US. It should protect everyone, notably minorities (racial, sexual, religious) from being fired or not hired because of any employer's bias. ENDA has bounced around the halls of Congress this year, driven by a newly Democratic majority ( Read more... ) -
who the fuck?
is calling my house to leave neil diamond's "kentucky woman" on the answering machine?
twice in a week, people. twice. -
itty. bitty. titty. committee.
In the year 2000, I was a freshman in college, the same year "But I'm a Cheerleader" was released. It became my own personal cult favorite, a pitch perfect satire of the ex-gay movement. "Cheerleader" was, in my mind, the summit of the millennial generation of queer filmmaking. A descendant of 80s and 90s new queer cinema with a direct link to ( Read more... ) -
even though i'm trying to avoid the whole hp-dh thing
this is one theory. and i think it's pretty awesome.
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Pay up, bitchez.
So the Roman Catholic Church has to pay over $600 million to victims of priestly sexual abuse from the LA Archdiocese. It serves them right, they've been covering abuse up for years, moving offenders from parish to parish. And by years I mean at least a thousand. This particular case's outcome means that the has paid over $2 billion in settlements. ( Read more... ) -
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huh. brasil's air traffic control system is run by the military.
i did not know that. -
Of course they hid how bad it was...
... [W]hile Japan is one of the world's most earthquake-prone countries, executives at the [Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear] plant [that was damaged in Monday's quake] admitted they had not foreseen such a powerful temblor hitting the facility ( Read more... ) -
filibusters are fun!
he finally yielded the floor. dang. he was mad. -
best sleepover ever!
"Al Qaida will wear t-shirts that say Al Qaida" - Sen. McCain
Oh snap! John McCain's pissed.