For many years I’ve left the “interested in” field of my Facebook profile blank. Today I switched it to “men and women ( Read more... )

It was a windy day yesterday as Atlantans gathered at the Capitol for the worldwide protest against California’s Prop 8 and similar legislation that would limit family-building to a heterosexual privilege. Fortunately for me, I really like the wind. I was proud to stand up in the bluster with the 1500 or so people who gathered there in support of ( Read more... )

Tonight I got a call from the Dove Foundation. ( Things got suspicious real quick. )

The highest French court declared today that in the case of a lesbian couple one of whom is the mother of a child via artificial insemination, the couple may share full legal parental authority. Go France.

Article original: La Cour de cassation autorise les couples homosexuels à partager l'autorité parentale [lemonde.fr]

There is a field of study that underlies information theory. It supports linguistics. It drives religion, and it explains science. It guides unwitting marketers, newsies, and other world leaders. It is the Philosopher's Stone of the modern information age and possibly many ages past. It is the study of pure ideas. It is the study of human ( Read more... )

My mind was wandering on the way in to work this morning. It started with musing about the perception that capitalism is evil, often countered by the system's supporters with the claim that it enables people to pick their purchases based on their own moral decisions rather than integrating someone else's morality into the purchase decision. I think ( Read more... )

This is an excerpt from a comment I made on someone else's journal in reply to someone calling the government incompetent because of the current tragedy in NOLA. Frankly the whole sad situation has me tense in the first place, and hearing people manufacture a way to use it as a political tool -- yet another excuse to lambast Bush -- frankly has me ( Read more... )

I just saw it, finally. With Michael Moore's reputation I'd refused to give anyone money to watch it on the big screen, but this evening I was flipping through the channels looking for background noise for reading, and it just happened to be starting. I decided to put it on to see it first hand if I'd agree with the criticisms I'd heard ( Read more... )