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The Fight For Transgender Acceptance Is Going To Be Much Harder Than It Is For Gay Rights 27 Aug 2013 | 02:59 am
Kathleen Geier’s nice post on the basics of transgender identity is good, though I think I take issue with the comparisons to the marriage equality and overall struggle for acceptance of gays and lesb...
A Song for Saturday 25 Aug 2013 | 04:48 am
Stumbled on — by which I mean finally got around to browsing my email backlog — an Aeon article re: folk singer Sam Lee and the Romany: Singing folk songs takes up an increasing amount of his time, b...
Free for a Limited Time 24 Aug 2013 | 09:36 am
The Dead Gentlemen’s new (low budget) epic Gamers: Hand of Fate is free onna Youtubes through September 1st. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp9h_6g1Ik0 I’m a big fan (and Kickstarter booster) of the...
And Ye Shall Know Them By Their Works 24 Aug 2013 | 06:30 am
Who’s got your back, in re: the Healthcare Act? Libraries, that’s who. The Pacific Northwest Regional Center of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, which looks like it’s out of the Universi...
Why All The 2016 Chatter? 24 Aug 2013 | 05:03 am
Plain Blog has been discussing whether it’s right and proper to discuss the 2016 election so far in advance (really, he thinks its fine, though irrelevant). But I am sort of wondering why we’re gettin...
Religious Stupid Of The Day: Turning Away From Jesus Makes You A Fatty! 24 Aug 2013 | 04:50 am
When I come across really choice steaming piles of shit like this quote, I often want to stab out my brains to make the pain finally stop: Acceptance of immoral practices worldwide (contraception, ab...
Truth, in the Moment 22 Aug 2013 | 08:53 am
Holy crap, this is one strong lady. Via TPM, here’s a link to the WSB-TV interview with the aptly named Antoinette Tuff, the woman who talked down the McNair Elementary School shooter in Decatur, GA y...
This Week In Republican Stupid – Evil Obama Responsible for Hurricane Katrina Response 21 Aug 2013 | 11:35 pm
People that grouse about me calling Southern Republicans malicious, stupid and ignorant should take this quote and stuff it in their delicate pieholes: The latest survey from Democratic-leaning Publi...
He’s Saying “Impeach”… 21 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
…but I think he means that other thing. Via TPM, here’s GOP Congressman: Would Be “Dream Come True” To Submit Obama Impeachment Bill on BuzzFeed: “If I could write that bill [to impeach President Oba...
Greasing Sisyphus’ Boulder 21 Aug 2013 | 08:21 am
Jonathan Bernstein in There won’t be any GOP alternative to Obamacare, commenting on the GOP’s eternal quest to bend time’s arrow back around: If everything — even the whole concept of insurance — is...
