If anyone is still reading this but not my new blog, wouldja at least look at this post?

I've moved my blog from LiveJournal over to Blogger. All my posts have been transported over. Enjoy, or suffer my wrath.

The Iowa Independent has a small summary of the recent ruling (which, by the way, the judge stayed, though not before over twenty same-sex couples got married):
The defense presented five interests which they argued were "legitimate governmental interests" served by the current statute. Hanson's decision rejected the fifth interest presented, ( Read more... )

Well, Edna, for a school with no Asian kids, I think we've achieved a grade-A science fair!

Principal Skinner, The Simpsons, "Duffless", episode 4x16 ( Read more... )

Keen:
An ape in central Iowa is showing researchers just how smart primates can be ( Read more... )

Iowa's ban on gay marriage has been struck down:
Gay rights advocates won a major victory Thursday when a Polk County District Judge ruled the state's ban on gay marriage violates the Iowa Constitution ( Read more... )

The moment word hit my inbox about dangerous chemicals being found in one of the U.N. offices, I knew that someone would claim this was "proof" that Iraq had WMD. And I figured there would be more to it, because, if you had chemical weapons, why would you suddenly leave them on the desks of U.N. inspectors?

And... surprise, surprise.

I had forgotten about this. Well, I'd never actually seen this video clip, but I recall Alan Keyes claiming that allowing gays to marry and have children would lead to incest because said children wouldn't know who their siblings are. Which is a perfect example of the above mock-definition ( Read more... )

President Bush apparently plans to ask for $50 billion to fund the continuing surge in Iraq.
The request is being prepared now in the belief that Congress will be unlikely to balk so soon after hearing [David Petraeus and Ryan Crocker] argue that there are promising developments in Iraq but that they need more time to solidify the progress they ( Read more... )

For a horror movie:
They heard we were hilarious.

They found we were delicious.

And for some kind of team-up between a dentist and a hardcore cop:
One scrapes the scum off of teeth.

The other knocks the teeth out of scum.