"Judge strikes down Prop. 8, allows gay marriage in California"

CAN I GET A FUCK YES, CRYING IN JOY.

There's still the appeal that's (inevitably) going to come, but if this gets dragged up to the Supreme Court after, that's only going to draw even more attention than it already has. Baby steps, come on, it's bad enough that the proposition was even ( Read more... )

Earthquake woke me up last night.

Not the giant-ass 1906 San Francisco v.2.0 everyone's been afraid of since Chile and Haiti, but still enough to remind us that, uh, yeah, San Andreas is a transform fault that's fully alive and kicking and hasn't had a major rupture for about a century or roughly century and a half between ruptures, depending on ( Read more... )