Seriously?*

*Okay, I really had to post this just so I could use this awesome icon that I got from fraterrisus

On the theme of "if you're not outraged, you're not paying attention"...

You probably all already know about this ridiculousness. If you don't, go find out.

You should also know about this kid, who got kicked out of a private school for being gay.

What to do:
Go visit the ACLU. You can sign their pledge to support civil liberties for ( Read more... )

Interesting links for a shopping-y time of year...

Buy Blue and Choose the Blue tell you where the donations from companies go. (Interesting fine print note: Buy Blue, at least, reports donations by employees and their immediate families, as well as organizational PACs, not just donations from the corporation itself.)

And 10 Things You Should ( Read more... )

This year, one of my holiday goals is to slightly circumvent the mindless consumerism bug by giving gifts that give in some way besides directly to the receipient. In that spirit, under the cut is a list of some links to places to find such gifts, many of which are madly spiffy in addition to having some degree of feel-good quotient!

( Organic stuff is good for you )

Just in case one more reminder gets you up and moving...

Go vote!

Secretary of State Ken Blackwell tries to invalidate the registrations of some Ohio voters based on the kind of paper they used to register. Protest it here.

The American Library Association's Banned Books Week starts a week from today on September 26.

So here's the list of the 100 most frequently challenged books from 1990 to 2000 from the ALA's Office of Intellectual Freedom. ( The ones I've read are in bold. )

If bag searches are not your cup of tea, perhaps aFourth Amendment tote bag is in order!

BWAHAHAHAHA!

Saw this (or something very close to it) on a bulletin board at the First Congregational Church in Cambridge:

I believe the day will come when married lesbians and gays will be as unremarkable as female senators or a black secretary of state.

Gay marriage. Get bored with it.