Ordinarily I would post a somewhat incendiary, somewhat personal rant like this “friends only,” but I think this is important, and frankly, I hope people do see it.

You’re a “solidarity single”, shall we say; in a straight relationship and refusing to get married “until everyone can get married”.

BullshitESPECIALLY if you’re pointing it out in ( Read more... )

From here:

If a man has a husband in Iowa, he might take a wife in Texas without being charged with bigamy. If a married couple from Connecticut has an accident in the Lone Star State, a woman could be barred from her wife’s hospital bedside because she isn’t family.
Texas could become a safe haven for the gay deadbeat dad who empties the joint ( Read more... )

This is a pinhole camera. Make it, use it, be awesome.

Once again, GOOD’s goofy invention has proven amusing and, this time, perhaps even a tiny bit poignant.

I’m not sure where the “O-Rama” ending to describe celebrations actually comes from.

But.

Awright,

Here’s a few links to stuff I think that piqued my interest, and that are internet links:
( The first few are only interesting if you're into cycling or planning advocacy. )

I thought getting rid of a facebook was hard until I tried getting rid of a hotmail / MS Live account. I deserve a medal if I pull this off, which apparently requires a bare minimum of FOUR MONTHS inactivity on your account. Again, the difficulty in closing an account convinces me that I really don’t want that entity having access to the ( Read more... )

This reminds me of this. Spanking once or twice in a kid’s life might be fair way to communicate the boundlessness of the parent’s disappointment, but if a parent spends all that much time being disappointed, that’s a problem no amount of whacking a kid’s backside can improve.

This is awesome. This is something I want. Badly. To happen. In D.C.

It’s a Tweed Ride. Arising in part from frustration with the popular equation of cycles with spandex (a mild peeve of my own), it’s mostly about foppish, courteous fun, and that is something I heartily endorse.

( forwarded from Joe Libertelli )

Dear everyplace that serves hot chocolate; if it said “ReddiWhip instant marshmallows” on the can, I could see putting it on a drink. It doesn’t, so don’t. You literally make me sick.