It doesn't matter if Niven was "only joking." Not one eensy little bit.

--Really. Even if he was just saying it to be outrageous because he's a twenty-something hipster-slacker-stoner glibertarian South Park fan for whom all sincerity and empathy are anathema and only cruelty is funny, it's still a vile and bigoted thing to say.And that's all ( Read more... )

It's very strange the things one dowses up, particularly when doing research for personal reasons rather than setting out specifically to find a target already bent upon. Sometimes you stumble across something that isn't really related or useful to the project you were working on, but is important in light of other things you care about, and ( Read more... )

distilled as far down as possible:

My "right" to not be made uncomfortable in any way, trumps all your human rights together.

and with minimal fuss and fighting at home - in all ways unlike VT, Massachussetts and NY - the New Hampshire legislature this past week passed HB437, the bill allowing civil unions (Not Marriage! Just Just Like It) for same-sex couples in this state. Which is interesting, because even popular Democrat Elliot Spitzer who pledged to support it in ( Read more... )

Edit: AP story link here. Read about how Teh Gay is like radioactive waste!

Y'all may remember that almost exactly a year ago the state legislature here voted almost 2-to-1 against defining marriage in the state constitution as "one man, one woman" which thereby left it open that NH might subsequently vote to allow either civil unions or SSM. I've ( Read more... )

Okay, this happened on another list and I learned about it via an f-locked post, so there won't be any names or links, and anyway there have been enough other similar (imo) situations that I figure asking it in a general way is prolly best anyway, but I thought I'd bring it up here because there are so (comparatively) many of those chimerical ( Read more... )

You must attend to the commencement of this story, for when we get to the end we shall know more than we do now about a very wicked hobgoblin; he was one of the very worst, for he was a real demon ( Read more... )

Surely

it's

unreasonable

for

anyone

to

get

worked

up

over

a

few

newspaper

cartoons--

[source]

Check this out. (Windows Media Audio File) If you have a Mac and are having trouble, opt-click, copy the link and paste it into your media player and it might work for you.

But listen to it first before continuing, if you can. The audio is - surreal.

If you still can't get it to work, the transcript is below, via dKos:
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