You know, I remember when Mayor Gavin Newsom made same-sex marriage legal in San Francisco (well, not quite legally, of course, but who cared?) and couples streamed to Civic Center. I rode my bike out to stand on the steps and cheer and felt my heart choke my throat. And yes, big surprise that small-minded assholes responded with Prop 8 a little ( Read more... )

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I have to write about Ferguson, because it's just unbelievable, and what I'm seeing is hurting my stomach. But I won't go on about the things you already know: that an 18 year-old was shot down and it's pretty obvious from all the witness accounts the cop had no justification, that his fellow officers are just circling the wagons against what they ( Read more... )

Just a reminder: the last chance for public comments for an Open Internet is tomorrow. Email openinternet@fcc.gov, subject, "Docket number: 14-28 protecting an open internet".

Here is sample text for your email, but try to make it personal. Tell your own story of how you use the internet in your daily life:Dear Chairman Wheeler ( Read more... )

I had no idea there was fracking going on in California. I mentioned it to my bro over dinner yesterday, and we've decided that "frack" will be our new curse word. (We were possibly influenced by our love of the original BSG and "Felgercarb!"). It would be so fracking excellent, because it sums up such a dirty fracking concept, and will at the same ( Read more... )

Well, Florida, just when I think you can't get Kansas beat, you pull this: HS Principal Cancels Summer Reading Program Just to Stop Students from Reading Cory Doctorow's Little Brother.

Fortunately, they'd have to burn all the computers, too, since Cory has published it under the Creative Commons license here, but he and his publisher also sent ( Read more... )

I was listening to Ben Folds Five's Kate on my bike ride last night and something in the lyrics really struck me:

Everyday she wears the same thing
I think she smokes pot
She's everything I want
She's everything I'm not

And the choruses are just a reiteration:

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Wednesday the California Supreme Court rejected ProtectMarriage's effort to revive Proposition 8, the craptastic California proposition outlawing same-sex marriage. This move by the court now kills any realistic possibility of ProtectMarriage reviving that puppy ( Read more... )

Anti-abortion bill S.B.5 died a raucous death on the Senate floor. The women of Texas kick ass, is all I'm sayin'.

ETA: OMG DOMA GOES DOWN + am I hearing this? Is Prop. 8 staying down? ? ?

BWEEEEEE \o/ \o/ \o/ BEST DAY EVAR!!!!!

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(Sorry, folks, I keep forgetting to cross-post.)

Run, come play with new.weavesilk.com. I like it best with Symmetry Off. (I recommend you turn off their music and put on some of your own, though.)

And this, oh this had me amused: I've got your tax mandate right *here*; or, "President Obama Wins Eight of the Ten Wealthiest Counties in the ( Read more... )