Despite a valid medical power of attorney document, a hospital in Miami refuses to let a lesbian and her children see their dying partner and mother because this is "an antigay city and state", and refuses to accept information about the patient's medical history. She sues; District Court dismisses the case.

Details from Lambda LegalPlease ( Read more... )

I'll definitely be maintaining my livejournal account well beyond the foreseeable future, what with having a permanent account that's over seven years old. However, as half my friends list seems to be getting on the dreamwidth bandwagon, I guess I need an account over there too.

So, anyone got a dreamwidth invite to spare?

EDIT: dglenn hooked me up, ( Read more... )

Galaxy's centre tastes of raspberries and smells of rum, say astronomers

A brilliant headline to describe the simple discovery of ethyl formate in the Sagittarius B2 dust cloud.

Native English speakers only, please:

Poll Squidiom

Take the poll before continuing :)

This is an iteration of ratatosk's poll in this entry. I'm presenting the choices in a different order to reduce bias, and increasing the overall sample size.

Mostly though, I just like squid, particularly those with the aforementioned characteristics.

I always see the term "crow-like" being used in descriptions, which is just a travesty, and I'm not aware of an official, dictionary-approved substitute.

Poll Adjectives for Corvidae

Here are two random photos from Hawai'i, the Big Island. These are actually from our first trip in March 2007, but I'm just a wee bit behind on editing and posting photos.

Click through each to see a larger version.


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Note that this is primarily a friends-only journal. By "friends", I mean the 300 people on my friends list, most of whom I'm never met and some of whose journals I seldom actually read. If you want to be added to the list, add me to your own list or email me, and I'll look at adding you ( Read more... )

Just finished Harry Potter. This is the first book I've ever bought new in hardcover, much less at 1am on release night. I'd been planning to wait and just read it whenever, but I realized yesterday that if I didn't do it this weekend, there was no way I was going to be able to dodge spoilers ( Read more... )

Happy birthday, vulture23!

(Even though we'll actually be celebrating it later.)

I love you, sweetie.