BY A VOTE OF 31-5, NEW JERSEY STATE SENATE PASSES HISTORIC TRANSGENDER EQUALITY BILL -- STATE ASSEMBLY EXPECTED TO APPROVE BILL THIS THURSDAY

New Jersey set to become the third largest state in America, after California and Illinois, to have a statewide law outlawing discrimination based on "gender identity or expression"

New Jersey's law would ( Read more... )

"Imagine, if you will, being a rape and abuse survivior. You wake up, toss some water on your face, take the dog out while the coffee brews. You grab a hot steamy cup, sit down in your office and open your email to see what’s on your plate for the day. And you are greeted (I’m not going to trigger anyone myself here, so I’ll be vague) with a line ( Read more... )

More sites checked for ex-spy radiation | Video
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granted, this computer was the cheapest walmart had to offer back in june when i bought it, but i have not even had this pc for six months...and it's turning off when i'm in the middle of typing things. note the "solution available" section.

Error report summary

Error type:Windows stop error (A message appears on a blue screen with error code ( Read more... )

heather corinna has a very interesting post on her blog today about pornography and young women (and men): http://www.femmerotic.com/journal/2006/11/28/porny-problems-the-next-generation-1/. the following is the comment i left after she solicited commentary from either young people or those who work with them.

I, like crunchywitch, also teach young ( Read more... )

The N-Word: Unmentionable lessons of the midterm aftermath.
By Diane McWhorter
Posted Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2006, at 6:29 PM ET

"The relevance of Third Reich Germany to today's America is not that Bush equals Hitler or that the United States government is a death machine. It's that it provides a rather spectacular example of the insidious process by ( Read more... )

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006
Cut and Run, the Only Brave Thing to Do ...a letter from Michael Moore

Friends,

Yesterday marked the day that we had been in Iraq longer than we were in all of World War II.

That's right. We were able to defeat all of Nazi Germany, Mussolini, and the entire Japanese empire in LESS time than it's taken the world's only ( Read more... )

a HUGE, heartfelt congratulations goes out to shawn, who just called at 10:33 a.m. to say...

his phD is officially done!! he is now "dr. shawn." i am envious. :o)

i knew the defense would go well. you rock.

...subtitled: "what i found while cleaning out the text messages from my phone". this is probably one of those blog entries that books like no one cares what you ate for lunch warn against. but on i plunge, nevertheless, because old text messages found in my phone amuse me to no end. they kind of read like bad poetry. or good poetry. or poetry ( Read more... )

Harpsichord

What is that like 
They ask, 
Playing the harpsichord--
And I say it’s “tinny”
Like rain on warehouse rooftops. 
It’s metallic
Like that taste in your mouth.

(I’ve assembled musicians in a room. 
They’re all the might-have-beens,
The were-nots,
The would-have-loved-you-betters 
Who have written songs for me.

Some songs are about 
How lovely I am--

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