Copy this sentence into your livejournal if you're in a non-same-sex marriage, and you don't want it "protected" by the bigots who think that gay marriage hurts it somehow.

(Yes, I know I'm not married. I still don't want people protecting my rights by denying them to someone else.)

(taken from thnidu)

-----
edit to add following (reposted from unixronin, who ( Read more... )

Shenanigans at the U of Chicago. Film at 11.

(Thanks to mrmeval for reposting this from chuckles48).

Let's look at this, shall we, folks?

a) Dr Friedman spent 30 years teaching at the U of Chicago business school.
2> Dr Friedman is a Nobel Prize winner
iii] Dr Friedman created the "Chicago school" of economics.
D. Three Nobel-winning economists proposed the ( Read more... )

...the more they stay the same.

"Das war vorspiel nur. Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen."

"That was merely a prelude. There, where they burn books, will they eventually burn men too."
--Heinrich Heine, 1821. Translation mine

you'd think that the newsies, in their desperation for anything that resembled controversy, would champ at the bit for even more possible malfeasance in the Bush administration, but lately a string of news stories have broken and gone....unremarked by even so much as a quirked eyebrow in the major outlets.

• The Enronning of Iraq? Upwards of USD 23 ( Read more... )

Not this shiat again.

Didn't we get this out of our system last time? I'll grant that Hillary is more-or-less saying the right things herself, she's doing a piss-poor job of rallying her supporters towards the party. And on that subject, suspending her campaign? wrong tactic. "We should all support our party's nominee. But I STILL want to rub ( Read more... )

From the department of "I knew our government was crazy, but ye GHODS man!", I offer you this charming story ( Read more... )

I've spent the week watching people I consider mature adult friends descend into childish antics, baiting and antagonizing someone's LJ. Yes, the LiveJounalist in question has been equally at fault, if not more so in her writings, reactions, and overreactions to it all ( Read more... )