I know he's been up to a lot already, and I'm definitely picking and choosing, but this made me really, really happy.  Via Kos.

Obama Orders on Transparency.

Seriously.  He never fails to crack me up!

Proposition 8, in California (along with all of the other successful hate-based initiatives out there), and Ted Stevens.

Seriously?  Goddamnit you people SUCK.*

Another thing I have said to Puppy recently is this:  Hatred of homosexuals and denial of their basic civil rights is Every Bit As Evil And Misguided as racism.

I did say it at the end of ( Read more... )

Every time I try to draft a post about how I feel about this election, I start crying again.  I apologize if this doesn't make any sense.  I think I'm talking around it.

I tried, a little, in the car on the way to school, to explain it to Puppy--who of course has his own feelings about it, but was really interested in an "older" perspective, as he ( Read more... )

I love this video. I really do. We can fight about Eminem's ostensible misogyny and the effect that should have on my loving this video later.

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I have been on line for forty minutes! With a ways to go!! At 7:45 a guy who got here at 6:15 was just leaving.

Woo Hoo!  I voted for democrats, people of color, women, and SCIENCE (in the form of medical marijuana and stem cell research).  Also for parks funding, community college funding, and against Cliff Taylor, Michigan Supreme Court chief ( Read more... )

Tomorrow, I'm going to go vote.  I'm going to vote for Barack Obama and Joe Biden.  I'm sure that's not a surprise to most of the people who read this journal.

Here are some of the reasons I'm voting the way I am:

• I'm voting Obama because I'm pro-rationality, pro-woman and pro-science.
• I'm voting Obama because I believe in the Constitution and the ( Read more... )

Jesus Fucking Christ.

Srsly.

Via the_xtina & naamah_darling.

This week while I'm gone, I'm going to work on a post about the judiciary and the Bush Administration.

The country CANNOT AFFORD four more years of GOP-appt'd federal judges. 

Book # 6, Little Brother, by Cory Doctorow

Okay.  Well, let me get the Squee and the shorthand out of the way first, okay?  If what you want to know from a book review is Should I Buy This Book?

Fuck Yes.

Now that I've got the profanity out of the way, I'll tell you why.  Because it's a great story.  Because you'll ( Read more... )

Via a commenter at Making Light, I read THIS.

I still can't stop laughing.

My favorite line:    I am not spotting him eight hundred million Hindus. I call shenanigans.