running late for work, and i had to choose between abs workouts and witty filler. guess what won? check out these links, anyway.

xx trans rights bills advance on both coasts

xx university drops gay student housing plans [good riddance, i say; themed housing is just further ghettoization of minorities.]

xx NOM tries to recruit theatre folk. it ( Read more... )

iowa senate majority leader mike gronstal - in blocking debate to reverse same sex marriage in his state, he delivered these remarks:

“One of my daughters was in the workplace one day, and her particular workplace at that moment in time, there were a whole bunch of conservative, older men. And those guys were talking about gay marriage. They were ( Read more... )

sorry i’ve been so slow on the update lately. i have a ton of shit going on. still haven’t done my taxes, and i’ve decided to move back to new york city. it’s home. so it’s all logistics, logistics, logistics! also, check out the flickr widget to the left to see my sweet new tattoo!

Originally published at scott anthony dot org. Please leave any ( Read more... )

my grandpa passed away a few days ago at the age of 74. i don’t think i’ve allowed myself to process the idea, still super numb, but i do know that i will miss him and i am glad i managed to take a trip down to south carolina to see him a few months ago. he was strong as an ox last month, and now he’s gone. there has been a lot of concern in my ( Read more... )

today sees obama getting it rough and lubeless from both ends. there’s both international resentment and loyal opposition, led by my hero, paul krugman. and that’s not even including the clueless, marginalized republican opposition!

in honor of these times of economic crisis, i offer you what may be the perfect piece of entertainment: anti- ( Read more... )

recently, i’ve been engrossed by vibratorgate, a back and forth between barbara walters and mika brzezinski that is two parts creepy, three parts hilarious, with a dash of straight-up bewildering.

equally entertaining as babwa vag, i bring you sheep pong. stick with it. i promise, it’s loads of nerdy fun.

it’s been announced that npr’s ratings ( Read more... )

in politics, geithner unveils a plan that rallies wall street but leads the UK press to exclaim, “US follows UK - on the wrong road.” also, my home state of nc looks better than expected on gay marriage, and obama’s education secretary talks the talk on safe schools for queer youth, but will she walk the walk? anne hathaway accepts a role that ( Read more... )

i have had a lot of exciting ideas floating around in my head, and they will come to fruition shortly. the gist of my blog will be a news round-up, serious to bizarre, in the span of roughly one witty, snarky paragraph. it will become integrated with my twitter in that i will send a daily teaser out to twitter with the highlights of my round-up, ( Read more... )

the online realm has become such an instant one, with facebook feeds and twitters, that it’s hard to figure out the place of personal blogs. i’m slowly figuring the best way to find a balance between integrating these products of an attention span-devoid world into something like wordpress, which generally requires a bit more work. we’ll see how it ( Read more... )

From Paul Krugman’s NY Times blog. As always, he is dead on:

“AIG

Preliminary thoughts on the tax bill:

1. It’s not the way you should make policy - it’s clumsy, and it will punish some innocent parties while letting the most guilty off scot-free

2. But - there wasn’t much alternative at this point. And for that I blame the Obama people.

I’ll ( Read more... )