This kid has more cojones than most adults: Graeme Taylor, 14, Is Sticking Up For Michigan High School Teacher Jay McDowell. And He Is The Awesome. Transcript, kindly provided by SLOG reader Canuck: "My father is Kurt Taylor, he's a teacher here, and he tells me about things that go on at Heartland [?], and in this area, it seems like a nice ( Read more... )

McCain Moves The Goal Posts Again On DADT, Now Claiming The Pentagon Study Isn’t Good Enough. And that study can be seen here: Gays in the military

Shorter McCain: "Those homos will treat men like I treat women! We can't let them in! They'll treat our precious military men like shit! It will all fall apart! You can't possibly expect men to ( Read more... )

So I had a seminar today, wherein I hit people with sticks (they get to hit me with sticks, too). But actually it's a fairly flippant way to describe a discipline that I love doing. We had five hours of classes, five amazing instructors all giving generously of their time and talents so we could work on ours. The other wonderful thing about ( Read more... )

I wrote about making it better last weekend, and here's a great project for anyone doing just that: Write Your Principal. (via Write Your Principal).

I think my own high school is closed down, but I'm going to look around for some local ones and write to them directly. "Now that my taxes support your schools, I'd like to know..."

Google is getting less useful in searching for me: it appears to be weighting certain search words on its own which skew my results. I was trying to look up how certain drug testings worked the other day and could only bring up sites addressing how to game or avoid getting positive results from those tests. I finally went into Medline for a ( Read more... )

Same sex colleges grapple with the question of transgendered students. Male, female or neither? Gender identity debated at same-sex colleges

In the category of It's About Fucking Time: Michigan Asst. AG Temporarily Suspended After Attacking Gay Student On His Blog. What a douchebag. UPDATE: Andrew Shirvell has been fired from his job as a ( Read more... )

We've been talking the last couple months about how it gets better. Life gets better... there's so much out there to live for than to let homophobic bigots get in the way of it ( Read more... )

In School Efforts to End Bullying, Some See Agenda

“Of course we’re all against bullying,” Mr. DeMato, one of numerous pastors who opposed the plan, said in an interview. “But the Bible says very clearly that homosexuality is wrong, and Christians don’t want the schools to teach subjects that are repulsive to their values.”
Unbelievable. ( Read more... )

Rain. I have a Labrador. You wouldn't think she'd care, but I have to practically throw her outside on her damn butt for her morning potty. This is a dog that romps in the mud, swims anywhere there's enough water, you name it. But water falling from the sky? Nuh uh ( Read more... )

Mostly focused on work today what with various goings on (discovering assorted bugs in assorted packages in what should have been routine upgrades *argh*). But I wanted to note that theIt Gets Better Project, started last month with a clip by Dan Savage and his partner has wound up tonight with President Obama making one (below ( Read more... )