As I type, Wendy Davis, a state senator from the Ft. Worth area, is in the middle of hour 5 of her (hopefully) 13 hour filibuster of this bill ( Read more... )

I suppose it's no great secret how I feel about Planned Parenthood and the services that it provides. Therefore it'd be easy to guess how I'd feel about the recent Komen kerfuffle ( Read more... )

Assassin: There's enough poison in this needle to take out an army platoon.
John Casey: Lucky for me I'm a Marine.

Chuck vs. El Angel de la MuerteWhenever we watch a silly spy or war movie, I frequently turn during some crazy action or weapon sequence to ask Graham "have you done that?" And sometimes, a lot of times, the answer is yes ( Read more... )

I really loved how much Daubert was cited in this. The idea that science, data, rigor, publishing, peer review and academic credentials have merit over gut feeling and compilation of other people's ideas was refreshing in an era where educated "elites" are looked down upon ( Read more... )

I came home last night and my (lily white) boyfriend nervously said, "Sweetheart, you know that I don't find ANYTHING about this law remotely funny. It's horrible, terrible, awful, and you know I wholeheartedly think that ( Read more... )

I'm all official and shit. I filled out and sent in the census form yesterday. We checked off "unmarried partner" to describe our relationship. I'm glad that box is there ( Read more... )

Thank you Congress. This is something I've been passionate about my entire life, and I honestly never thought I'd see you pull this off.

We are a better country for this.

So, as most people probably know by now, my state's Board of Education evicerated the Social Studies cirriculum last week. Apparently they have another vote coming up in May, but I don't really see the five democrats on the Board managing to wrangle three votes from the ten republicans ( Read more... )

This is a terribly adorable video of a little boy who is figuring out that his uncles are married to each other.

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At first he's a little perplexed, then he tests the idea in his head, and then he figures "so that means you love each other!" And then he wants to play ping pong. And asks them to play with him.

It's awesome.

So I was a volunteer escort at Planned Parenthood on Saturday, and one of the protesters starts rattling on about how there's gonna be a initiative on the ballot today that would make women look at the sonograms before an abortion. I sort of ignored her because a) we don't have ballot iniatives in Texas (unless we're changing the constitution) and ( Read more... )