Mass. sues feds over definition of marriage: Massachusetts, the first state to legalize gay marriage, sued the U.S. government Wednesday over a federal law that defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman. The federal Defense of Marriage Act interferes with the right of Massachusetts to define and regulate marriage as it sees fit, ( Read more... )

I have to leave here to drive up to Boston to catch a plane in, oh, 2 hours or so. I should sleep or something, right? Nah, instead I'm giggling over Classic Trek clips on YouTube.

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OK, so, Star Trek.

I was highly skeptical and downright flaily as the movie was announced and cast and developed. The cast seemed good talent-wise, but this was Trek, dammit. Leave it as it is and GET OFF MY LAWN. I watched the original series en utero, for crying out loud (thanks, Mom!). Then I watched it in syndication over and over and over ( Read more... )

Most remakes I approach with caution. CHANGE IS BAD. If the original is a classic, don't screw with it.

Then along came Battlestar Galactica 2003, and I was determined to hate it at first because WTF Starbuck is a GIRL and Boomer is an Asian woman instead of a black man and she's a CYLON and WTF. But . . . I fell in love. So a reboot deserves ( Read more... )