The story of the high-school girls suspended for saying "vagina" while reciting lines from the Vagina Monologues seems like it may end happily. Their suspensions have been, er, suspended "for further study," and the author, Even Ensler, will visit the school and the girls.

So Ann Coulter called John Edwards a "faggot." Should we care? I mean, it's Ann Coulter - does anyone take her seriously? Mainstream Republicans have been quick to distance themselves from her. It's nice to know that Mitt thinks "all people should be treated with dignity and respect" - as long as they're not gay or lesbian and wanting to get ( Read more... )

According to Gonzalez, because the right to habeus corpus isn't explicitly spelled out in the Constitution, it doesn't exist. Despite being part of common law for several hundred years.

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Overheard on the bus, grossly paraphrased ( Read more... )

The California Supreme Court ruled that San Francisco overstepped its authority in granting same-sex marriage licenses and voided the ones that had already taken place. Not a surprising end to Newsom's brave act of civil disobedience, but still a sad one. If nothing else, it kicked off serious discussion of the matter which would have been ( Read more... )

Apparently a gamer taking the NY/NJ (Hoboken?) ferry almost had his White Wolf gaming book (in his bag) confiscated by the goon doing the random security sweep, because it was "Inappropriate".

The sad thing is, I can believe it.

I was amused to see, as I was waiting for the train, a young Muslim woman wearing a violet patterened headscarf, a deep purple skirt, and a pale purple shirt that said "angel" on it.

‘‘What sees us through tough times? Freedom, faith, families, and sacrifice," says one commercial, as clips roll of the Sept. 11, 2001, wreckage, a flag being raised, children saying the Pledge of Allegiance, parishioners at a church, parents with a new baby and firefighters appear.
( It makes me want to hurl. )

Nothing irritates me more than people who point to a particular instance of an institution and imagine that it (in this case, marriage) is as it was, so to speak, for thousands of years -- when in fact the historical reality, as evidenced by cursory research, is quite different.

history of marriage. The whole man-breadwinner, woman-homemaker ( Read more... )