During the holiday pot luck/Secret Santa lunch at work a white, older, male co worker that I'm friendly with sat next to me and smiled as he told me he could say Merry Christmas now. He goes home to Virginia every weekend and he always seemed like a practical, no nonsense dude that I shoot the shit with every so often. This stunned me a bit. We're ( Read more... )

I consider this my good deed for the month. LOL I am posting this link to lifehacker on "How to Block Annoying Political Posts on FB". I personally don't have one but I hope it works for those of you that do. On that note since it is the election season and I will most likely be posting stuff here I will LJ cut, have tags and it will be on the ( Read more... )

"I'm mailing this tomorrow to save my uterus."

Angelica on mailing in her voter registration form. She registered online but has to mail it in as well.

Brazil's Supreme Court on Thursday recognized the legal rights of same-sex partners in "stable" civil unions, Chief Justice Cezar Peluso announced.

The 10 justices unanimously ruled that partners in a same-sex union had the same legal rights as a man and woman in a marriage.

"Those who opt for a homosexual union cannot be treated less than equally as ( Read more... )

RIP Teddy Kennedy.

He was a respected elder statesman and the Lion of the senate, and I am so sad that he did not live long enough to see Health Care Reform pass.

So so much. This is one reason why:

President Obama this afternoon signed an executive order to create a White House Council on Women and Girls.

The council is designed “to ensure that all Cabinet and Cabinet-level agencies consider how their policies and programs impact women and families,” the White House said in a statement.

The president said ( Read more... )

I had to post this  because Stacy's been singing it all day. Up the stairs  to dance class, on the subway to her other dance class, at home . . .

LOL

Single Ladies spoof, Obama style.

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I took this from copperbadge  ' s post.

Quincy Jones has started a petition to ask President-Elect Obama to appoint a Secretary of the Arts. While many other countries have had Ministers of Art or Culture for centuries, The United States has never created such a position. We in the arts need this, and the country needs the arts -- now more than ever. Please ( Read more... )

Ok this is not a political post, just wanted to say that Bristol Palin gave birth to a bouncing baby boy yesterday and they named the child . . . . . . Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston.

*head desk*

"Renegade can't be disturbed right now. He and Renaissance are discussing the Bosnian problem."

*dies of laughter*

But imagine having your sex life discussed and observed like that. eeeeeew The indignities that power comes with.

*ganked from ontd_political