This video opposing Prop 8 made me a little teary-eyed.

From a sign at Zapata's Mexican Cantina in Shanghai:

"Zapata's Mexican Cantina does not sponsor prostitutes at our establishment. If you are a prostitute please refrain from entering our garden or restaurant. If you are unsure whether or not you are a prostitute, please ask one of our friendly security guards to sort it out for you."

Obama was the first U.S. president ever to use the word "data" in his inaugural address.

But he was the second to use the word "statistics." Check out this excerpt from Taft's speech in 1909... "The progress which the negro has made in the last fifty years, from slavery, when its statistics are reviewed, is marvelous ( Read more... )

This made me smile.

Technically it's safe for work (that's in the title, after all) but it might kind of depend where you work... it's basically porn with the naked parts covered up by cartoons.

Diesel: SFW XXX

For whatever reason, the American Family Association automatically replaces the word "gay" with the word "homosexual" in AP stories on its OneNewsNow site.

A couple days ago, athlete Tyson Gay became "Tyson HomosexualThe headline was: "Homosexual eases into 100 final at Olympic trials ( Read more... )

The famous Nicaraguan musician who wrote the Sandinista hymn has just announced that Daniel Ortega and the rest of his cronies have one week to stop using his recording of it during government events ( Read more... )

Al-Qaeda is pissed off at Iran for spreading rumors that Israel was behind the 9/11 attacks.

According to the BBC, Al-Qaeda's deputy leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri posted a tape online accusing Iran of "trying to discredit Osama Bin Laden's network."
"The purpose of this lie is clear - [to suggest] that there are no heroes among the Sunnis who can hurt ( Read more... )

A new study in Qatar shows that 42% of women support the use of violence against them, prompting calls for an education campaign in the Gulf emirate with the popular tribal saying that "A sister is one hair in her brother's beard."

Full article here.
Called to my attention by Foreign Policy Watch.

According to this BBC update, the girl was in a car with a male friend, and a group of guys stopped the car and raped both of them. And they're both being punished ( Read more... )

Nicaragua to decriminalize gay sex.

(Abortion still illegal in all cases, even when the life of the mother is at risk.)