(Not particularly happy today, given the news.)

First, a piece of dumb news:

Gov. Sean Parnell's appointee for the panel that nominates state judges testified Wednesday that he would like to see Alaskans prosecuted for having sex outside of marriage.Because, y'know, that would be SO easy to enforce. Also, I hope that some enterprising reporter is checking Haase's background, because I have a ( Read more... )

Guess what? The Republicans want to make rape, incest and survival subjects for IRS audits! Not only that, they want to narrow the definition of what rape IS.

And it looks like they might succeed on both counts.

Thomas Barthold, the chief of staff of the nonpartisan Joint Tax Committee, confirmed that one consequence of the Republicans' "No ( Read more... )

Go here:

http://japan.person-finder.appspot.com/?lang=en

This is Google's Person Finder. In the aftermath of the 8.9-magnitude earthquake that struck Japan Friday, Google has launched a Japanese, Chinese and English-language Person Finder tool to help victims and ( Read more... )

From People For the American Way ( Read more... )

rackhamrose has an excellent entry on why anyone who has ever been clinically depressed or been treated for depression should boycott the movies of Tom Cruise.

Tom Cruise says "There is no such thing as a chemical imbalance!" He also has several unkind things to say about antidepressants, psychiatrists and people who use both, or either.

Check out the ( Read more... )

More about that lovely little law I mentioned yesterday.

nagasvoice is continuing to follow the story and is posting updated links to the story--including links to the Free Speech Coalition, which has been granted an injunction against the law by the 10th Circuit Court. It won't be enforced against the Free Speech Coalition until September 7th. (That doesn' ( Read more... )

Hi. People? This is important. Found this on the LJ of activist twistedchick:

"robkaiote tells us that LiveJournal won't be immune from the Bush Administration's war on porn. No more pretty photos. And perhaps not other things as well. More from gay.com. And more here. Take note, and pass it on ( Read more... )

From People for the American Way ( Read more... )

eumenides1 has a post at her LJ about a new US law that takes effect tonight, and that affects two subjects dear to the hearts of much of my f-list: websites and porn.

ETA: In honour of the spreading idiocy, I am going to post a filk song written by political satirist Mark Russell for his 1984 TV special.

( Big Brother Is Watching You )