Trigger Warning

Angie Zapata's family released their statement on Allen Andrare's conviction:

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This makes me cry.I am now conflicted, because it’s for stuff like this that I believe in the death penalty, and yet the death penalty is problematic. (If you don't know why it's problematic you'll have to look it up because I can't right now.) Is it very problematic when it constitutes the removal of such individuals, whose crime cannot be ( Read more... )

So a youth pastor is now facing charges of sexual assault on a 14-yr-old girl from his church.

"Caldwell was charged with 6 counts of statutory rape of a 14-year-old, three counts of statutory sex offense of a 14-year-old and eight counts of taking indecent liberties with a minor."

After which he was re-arrested:
"After originally posting bond, a ( Read more... )

Rev. Joseph E. Lowery's benediction was utterly mindblowing. I'll post a video and transcript when I can. At Hoyden, someone mentioned that maybe it was strategic to have the invocation done by Rick Warren, because then he was TOTALLY OVERSHADOWED by Rev. Lowery ( Read more... )

From an English major with some interest in linguistics and grammar and rhetoric.

Obama's speeches tend toward parallel structures in how he arranges his sentences. Not only that, but they're sometimes triple phrases too.

Will elaborate more when I get the time. Or if anybody asks.

I watched the "We Are One" concert on HBO and it was neat! Best acts were "My Country, 'Tis Of Thee" by Josh Groban and Heather Headley (with the Washington DC Gay Men Chorus backing them up - a historical first, mind you!) and "You'll Never Walk Alone" sung by Renee Fleming and the US Naval Glee Club.

I'll be watching the live feed here (the ( Read more... )

"Clown teaches abstinence-only ed in Ohio middle schools."

Pam Spaulding of Pandagon shits us not!

I just sent this off to the Star newspaperDear Editor ( Read more... )

Here's a New Year's meme!

Post the first article with really neat news you read in the new year! It doesn't have to be written in 2009, it can be a few days old, like this one from One News Now about a "pro-family" group getting its knickers in a twist over Campbell Soups catching teh Gay, and Campbell's awesome response.

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Found in the Chicago Tribune.

( Some excerpts I really liked: )