On the Google News front page, the headline was:

"Zachary Quinto Announces He's a 'Gay Man'"

...Why the scare quotes, dudes?

Okay. Of the probably zillion reasons not to elect Chris Christie, for me his weight is not even SORT of near the top of the list ( Read more... )

Yes, Solvang. Opposing the expansion of a Native American reservation is exactly like the Arab-spring revolutionaries' sacrifices of blood and freedom. That's not even sort of an insulting comparison.

I've heard this kind of squawking from the folks out that way before (mostly from people who seem to just hate reservation casinos because well, ( Read more... )

Okay, I guess I should have realized that for some people, Chaz Bono dancing on Dancing with the Stars would be a Thing. You know, vulnerable children could see him, um, dancing! And talking!

Good lord, people.

I have to agree with other commenters -- this does just make it even more apparent why we NEED him to do a stint on the show. Especially for ( Read more... )

I have to get behind Amanda Marcotte's recent fulminations over at Pandagon (http://pandagon.net/) about how the Perry campaign is dragging out this "what's a REAL Texan" stuff that was so eye-rollingly fashionable during G.W.'s era. Can we get over this already?

It's a big state, y'all. There are ( Read more... )

Deeply disappointed with this decision.


http://news.yahoo.com/second-largest-u-indian-tribe-expels-slave-descendants-011650136.html

I can only hope that there'll be a continuing campaign to change the minds of Cherokee voters so that some years down the road this constitutional exclusion will be ended, since the courts were of no help.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/police-japanese-returned-78-million-missing-cash-quake-174212622.html

Okay, I sure hope England doesn't lock down social media. Way to pour fuel on a fire. Because you know I'm sure none of the rioters will be reminded of Egypt or Iran or Syria.

Serious question - are the rioters in England "looting thugs" because their actions are qualitatively that different from those of revolutionaries throughout history, or ( Read more... )

I can't remember if I've posted about this before. (If I have, apologies for repeating the story, but I was reminded of it today seeing some stuff about rape culture on the internet, and things like the Great Elevator Dispute that briefly caused the atheist community on the Internet to explode into annoying debates about "but how is a guy SUPPOSED  ( Read more... )

With thanks to Dina Kampmeyer for the link.

Alan Rickman reads Shakespeare's Sonnet 130.

(Text:
My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips’ red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damask’d, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her ( Read more... )