tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31218092012-01-24T21:40:20.641-08:00A blog about politics, gay equality and otherwise.Alhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15024677370311382769noreply@blogger.comBlogger2791100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3121809.post-82796725908942272772012-01-23T22:42:00.000-08:002012-01-24T21:40:20.652-08:00

It is surprising I think that either way Gingrich gets a pass by the GOP voters.  Marianne Gingrich makes a well timed claim which is also very specific and not necessarily damaging.  In a way, it is somewhat less damaging that Gingrich actually asked for 'permission' to continue his affair.  It means that he attempted to stop hiding the affair which was a secret for 6 years.  On the other hand,

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Most people don't like Gwyneth Paltrow because she's had a life of ease. It's jealousy, pure and simple. But I have some more or less legitimate reasons to dislike the girl, and they have nothing to do with her fame, money or Coldplay's Chris Martin.1. Pepper Potts (Iron Man series) - either the character is devoid of redeeming value or she is. I'm tending to think it's Paltrow.2. Viola De

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[SFGate Article Link] Asexuals leave the closet, find community. I guess I wasn't sure asexuals existed, but on the other hand, I am terribly misinformed about a lot of things. When I read the article, I was thus enlightened greatly. One thing which was explained is that asexuals seem to still have a gender preference, i.e. they can be straight or gay. They really prefer just not to have sex.

Alhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15024677370311382769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3121809.post-32260406706252814082009-03-14T20:42:00.000-07:002009-03-15T11:25:04.633-07:00

Some rich gay folks should fund a don't ask, don't tell bounce back fund. If someone is discharged from military service for don't ask, don't tell, they not only get out of dangerous service, but they'll get a nice cushy job, trust fund to help them out for a couple years while they look for another job.When the straights in the military hear about this, wouldn't they want to repeal the policy

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Shall we let the market crash and burn, or support it artificially and let all the bad players get saved from their mistakes. I guess I'm a hyper-capitalist, so I suggest to do the former. Someone like Buffett will come in a take a few pennies on the dollar for those CDOs. Let the financials drag the market down until people separate the companies generating real value from those who just

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I was particularly struck by an article on a Psychology Today blog about the particular values of conservatives which liberals have trouble understanding. I guess I have been reading the New York Times while skipping Safire and Kristol for far too long to have any idea of the existence of these values, much less any understanding to why they are so important.According to the article these

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The Republicans in the state legislature aren't agreeing with Schwarzenegger's proposal for a cent sales tax increase -- which, by the way, supposedly takes the sales tax back down after a few years (probably a little added grease in the proposal for those against any taxes). I thought that if I were a Republican I would be for the sales tax. I mean Republicans tend to be fiscally conservative.

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The recent events surrounding the New Yorker magazine cover highlighted to me what Democrats wanting to win in November need to remember. The rest of the electorate is stupid. I know, I know. You're thinking this is another one of my innumerable rants about Republicans, but it's not.Let's go through this demonstration. The New Yorker prints a very unsubtle piece of satire on it's cover. Many

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So Bush did the right thing with the surge? He decided to try to salvage a very bad situation by doubling down. Would another commander in chief do the same thing with a huge mistake he'd already invested a huge amount of his country's money and his own reputation -- not to mention the lives -- on? Probably. Bush, least of all, would understand the fallacy of sunk costs.People, mostly

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From the response to my previous post, there seems to be interest in this topic, so let me suggest another couple helpful methods, but in reverse: i.e. how to tell if your husband is straight. Here are some dead giveaways:He doesn't care so much or at all about his appearance or dress, or he has long hair or had it when you met him and before you convinced him otherwise, although the only

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I don't think it's right: the suggestion that Obama money should go to Clinton to encourage her to leave (and perhaps fight against him with this money 4 years later). If Clinton leaves, it should be of her own accord. Since she loaned money to her own campaign, that's her own decision. She shouldn't count on Obama to make her whole again. Obama will need that money to fight McCain, and how

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Graceful exit, waiting your turn => McCain's second chanceDivisive and negative prolonged exit => Voter fatigue and negative associationsFrom Clinton's perspective, it seems like a losing battle with little reason to continue, except to decimate chances for next time, if it turns too ugly. Now people say that it's better for Obama to face a battle against Clinton and survive -- following the

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Wouldn't it be a shame if after all that trouble China went to hold the Olympics in 2008 no one went? It's unlikely the athletes would boycott. But how about the tourists. They've probably all paid for their tickets, eh? Well, it would be a nice idea in principle.

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[FarmReport] I was surprised and happy to read about the plan to demolish Meyer Library on the Stanford campus. I was always partial to Green even when it was partly closed down after the earthquake. The late 1960's built Meyer was unsightly, smelly and decrepit, and even though it got periodic and expensive face-lifts, it never really seemed to improve. Even the renovated and nearly century

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This Christopher Buckley guy makes it sound like it was all a joke. Like how the conservatives thought it would be funny if they could buy a party and win elections and take over the government and f**k it up. And in a way I kind of believe it. With money to burn, why not? It's like a big joke among the wealthy white folks. But it's funny that he says he's pretty much given up hope of

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Here I am repeating a conspiracy theory, but I just finished reading a book about the incredibly cynical thought processes of movement conservatism and the Bush presidency. It just popped into my mind a now seemingly very likely scenario. They purposely let Osama Bin Laden go! I mean what would have happened to the war on terror if they'd caught, captured, and/or killed the guy, there would be

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Checklist republished by gawker (from a Fox 5 New York posting) of how to tell if your husband is gay. Actually, I consider that it's a pretty good list, though probably if I thought harder about it, I could come up with some more interesting suggestions like: He seems interested in sports, but only knows the rules superficially and only mirrors your interest in them, orHe likes to keep strict

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Everything I've learned says that revenge isn't a proper motivation for anything. But anyway, just for fun, here's some twisted reasoning to justify hoping that Clinton wins. The Republicans hate Hillary Clinton. Dems hated W and deservedly so (He was an idiot. He took this country and poured American money and lives down the drain. He trashed our civil liberties. He trashed our

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From what limited conversations I've had with folks lately, it seems to me that Obama is gaining momentum in California. After seeing some more of him, I think I'm getting more comfortable with him as a good choice, despite what I think is his lack of on screen charisma. My reasoning on the matter:Being right on Iraq probably means having a prescient sense of the possibility of outright lies

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Link Economist article reports on a Thornhill and Fincher study which showed that kids with difficult childhoods end up as liberals. Those with sheltered ones end up conservatives. It's clear this matches with the stereotype. The kids of wealthy parents who have been to the country clubs, have the fancy BMW and trust fund are probably conservatives.It has been hypothesized in a recent New

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Towleroad Boy does Bill know how to walk that fine line. Just seeing that he had spoken negatively about Obama sort of turned me off. Still, after listening to the talk, I was slightly swayed, but still skeptical. Interesting thing is that I read Obama's statement on repeal of don't ask, don't tell and it seems much stronger than Hillary's. Time to switch horses?

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Reuters It was reported that Greenspan mentioned the word. While I didn't say stagflation in September, I mentioned something else in a post which was housing and credit collapse causing significant reversal in economy.

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Queerty The guys at Queerty are naturally annoyed at the common gay personals attribute of either the postee liking and/or being "straight-acting". Their post is a little confusing, but the first comment clears up the confusion nicely. I.e. there is a good dose of self-hatred implied if one truly believes this is the right sort of attribute to look for. Sure, discretion might be the better

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Advocate It's not quite as dramatic as it originally sounds, but some liberal metropolitan churches are now not providing the marriage license to any couples straight or gay. Of course, the straight couples are later free to go to a justice of the peace to get a civil marriage license whereas the gay couples generally cannot. Still it is a fine demonstration of solidarity, and on the side a

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Something that comes to mind is that artists tend to be overwhelmingly liberal. I was looking today at the list of Golden Globe nominees, and while actually I haven't seen any of the movies, I was wondering why it seems to be such a bad year for movies of substance that I am interested in seeing.I also know that I hardly know of any good movies from the Reagan years.Putting these random pieces

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PDF (2MB) Seems to be constantly updating, yet some things stay the same. Don't buy gas from Exxon or Mobil, they got a big '0' from Equality survey in treatment of their LGBT employees. Instead go to Chevron or BP. Better to use UPS instead of Fedex. Also, Target instead of Walmart or ToysRUs, Best Buy instead of Circuit City, Staples instead of Office Depot, Whirlpool/Maytag instead of GE,

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NYT More than 10 years ago, I heard that an ex-employee in my department had once commented that he wanted to marry a girl that was dumber than him and shorter than him -- this despite the fact that he was pretty short and people also questioned his mental faculties. He be waiting a long time, people snidely remarked. However, this lends credence to data cited by Dowd in this piece (from an

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Advocate Sounds like a terrible experience for anyone to have to go through.

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By now everyone knows that Dumbledore is gay, at least according to the author in a sort of unwritten postscript. We might have picked up on it. There are hints in the books apparently and nothing clearly disproves it.I sort of wish Rowling had written it in more explicitly. And no, not that kind of explicit. Just some words to say that Dumbledore liked men. People will say, but this is a

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NYT Compared to today's younger generation of increased gay acceptance, gay seniors do generally still face ostracism from other elderly and can be reluctant to enter into senior housing facilities.

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NYT In other words, warming begets more warming. We didn't think that much about this, and this is why the arctic ice melt was so extreme this summer that it was more than anyone expected (this post).

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NYT It was beyond even pessimistic projections.

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NYT What does it mean to America, the increasing lack of confidence in the dollar? In previous statements economists have said that it doesn't necessarily mean anything drastic will happen, but I hear allusions to virtuous circle of consumption in this piece.

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NYT The automobile blogger at the Times talks about a study showing corn ethanol reduces greenhouse gases from 0-3%. Sugar ethanol by 50-70%.

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NYT My commentary (only tangentially related to the piece): it will be a shame to see the work of racist Republicans enshrined for decades in the Supreme Court justices appointed and racist rulings handed down.# # #NYT Herbert concurs in a similar piece. (Don't these guys talk to each other?)

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NYT It's a strange world where Justice Stevens says he's not a liberal. But this is the case. We've had a lot of Republican appointee's to the Supreme Court and, in fact, J.P. Stevens was one of them.

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NYT He is educated in London and has some power within Libya.

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NYT The story discusses Germany's dearth of children. But what of the question of new balance of power which would seem to occur with developing nations populations outnumbering the developed nations by huge numbers. Will this saturate out and be a non-issue or will Western nations be forced to open their doors to more immigration?

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NYT It seems strange that this would be a problem. But I guess it gets awkward for those of either sex who are traditionally inclined.

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Link Some interesting statistics: "Among men over 15, the proportion who have never been married was 28 percent for whites, 45 percent for blacks, 39 for Hispanic people and 33 percent for Asians."Among women over 15, it was 22 percent for whites, 44 percent for blacks, 30 percent for Hispanic people and 23 percent for Asians."Seems Asian and Hispanic women tend to do significantly better than

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NYT (Times Select is now free) Krugman shows that the dog and pony for the surge by supposedly credible Petraeus is just the same phony marketing as put out by Colin Powell before the war.--More Times SelectFriedman on IraqKrugman again a few days later on Iraq.Frank Rich on Iraq: "As the Iraqis stand down, we'll stand up."Krugman on Republicans use of race and division to entice Southern

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NYT Author makes an interesting point, that the sum of all tax receipts wouldn't change. It's just that they would be shifted around. So there would be a new carbon use tax, but it would be compensated by less income tax on individuals and businesses. Those businesses and individuals generating a lot of carbon dioxide -- basically big energy consumers -- would pay up the nose. But okay, it

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Link Strangely there are indeed anti-semitics in Israel. Non-Jews have arrived from Russia including some Neo-Nazis.

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Link 18 months after leaving office, Greenspan talks about how Republicans sacrificed their traditional fiscal discipline to try to pay their way into a 'permanent' Republican majority.

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Link There is a numerical problem with keeping more than one wife if you have equal numbers of boys and girls being born. The result? Some boys need to get removed from the group one way or the other. I'm surprised there isn't infanticide.

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Link Because the Republicans are anti-gay. Rhyme unintended.

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Not sure how long this will stay up on YouTube. Doesn't look like it's sponsored. Note how it goes in and out of focus. Looks like it was taken with a cell phone. Or perhaps this is done purposely to foil automatic copyright detection.

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Link Wonder what my HS classmate -- who last I heard is an army major -- really thinks. Of course, I may never find out.

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Link W says withdrawal will make it like Vietnam. Historians say otherwise.

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Link What a f*cking bastard.

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Link Loans with huge prepayment penalties. Unconscionable.

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Link And so it might be net negative for global warming.

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Link Scores of dead and injured in two separate accidents.

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Link In short, they say the Americans should step aside.

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AmericaBlog.com creates an ironic spot and posts on YouTube

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Link Shit. I wouldn't have thought such a short time scale could impact genetics significantly. But a theory is presented which the rich English tended to survive in greater numbers and these were the more literate and non-violent folks which allowed the industrial revolution to happen.

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Link The supposedly non-partisan Brookings Institution sent two of their people, O'Hanlon and Pollack, to investigate the situation in Iraq and they gave a positive report to latest measures. But Salon's Greenwald disputes (link) the validity of the opinion of these two particular academics who actually were particularly hawkish at the war's start, and appear now trying to salvage any shred of

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Link A quote from the article (emphasis mine):"Good judgment in politics, it turns out, depends on being a critical judge of yourself. It was not merely that the president did not take the care to understand Iraq. He also did not take the care to understand himself. The sense of reality that might have saved him from catastrophe would have taken the form of some warning bell sounding inside,

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Link I wonder how this is going to turn out. Probably badly. I don't think I've been through something like this. But at least I'm not on an adjustable loan that can't be refinanced because my asset is worth less than the loan.

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Link I noticed this Op-ed some time back and finally came back to read it. As with anything, it's a two edged sword. But, hmmm...

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Link Hmmm, strange that doctors cannot pinpoint a cause. It's fortunate that he didn't injure himself significantly while falling. I mean sure, a liberal might not mind this 'activist' judge being removed from office for health reasons. But to be really practical, it needs to happen after W. leaves office.

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There was a troublingly homophobic snippet of Matt Damon's interview in GQ where he talks about the cars he and Ben were thinking about buying after getting the money for Good Will Hunting.Damon says, "Because we knew it would be so gay to get the same car [Jeep Grand Cherokee]. And our friends where making fun of us. Like, 'You fags, what are you doing, you're gonna drive around in the same

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Well, I happened to read the interview with Matt Damon in GQ where he makes an off-hand homophobic comment (more on that in a later post). I wouldn't say that Damon is a profoundly intellectual guy, despite having gone to Harvard (but not graduated). He has said he doesn't really like Hillary Clinton especially for not admitting voting 'incorrectly' for the war in Iraq. He then draws

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Link It's an interesting development. Wonder why no one ever thought of it before, but perhaps there was never a moderate Palestinian leadership before.

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Link It's hard work -- far beyond even a marathon it seems, but I found the energy equivalent amazing. 400 Watts is quite a lot.

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Link A better way to keep violence to a minimum. Soccer, jobs and prosperity?

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Link We all know now that Saddam didn't ally with anyone including Al Qaeda. After attacking Iraq we've created a two pronged war against Al Qaeda. Isn't that lovely? I've got to say we've got the stupidest President and had an idiot Congress to just go along with the ride.

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Link A couple of the examples in the article seem to make sense. Perhaps one of the hallmarks of the Dems approach is to try to use logic to persuade -- even though it's supposed to be the mommy party (Ok, I won't say that again). I like the idea of adopting the sneaky tricks of the Republicans to go after emotions. We need a campaign that goes after the non-intellectual masses of Americans

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Link One alarming fact is that the Colorado supply will be exceeded by demand in five years.-- Updated 7/9/07NewsHour guest talks about how one degree difference matters greatly to Sierra snow and snowmelt. In current drought, water supplies become more scarce and fires more prevalent and difficult to stop.

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Link If there is some hope in Iraq it is somewhat expressed by this winning over of the moderate Sunnis to help the Americans. It's obvious these Iraqis are worried about what will happen once the Americans leave and the Shia are left alone to manage the country. Surely, the Americans will stay in some capacity, but it all depends on the political support for the war back home. It's

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Link I agree.

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Link He says the occupation was a mistake. The reasoning parallels the old maxim: even though the battle was won, the war was lost.

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Link Of course, the use tax is another tax. But Economists believe a use tax is more beneficial and effective than cap and trade. Cap and trade is like an incremental tax based on government managed and estimated usage levels and potential efficiencies. If the whole of carbon-dioxide generation was taxed then solar, wind, and nuclear would become much more competitive.On a related note,

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Link Interesting the double standard created by Bush's comments justifying the commutation. Pardons and commutations are clearly exceptions, but I wonder that any explanation is ever given for them since they are usually given at the end of a President's term. Everyone understands those pardons to be helping out friends and political allies. Yes, even then, issuing too many of these to 'true'

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Link Much as been made of the single remaining swing vote now that O'Connor has left the bench: Anthony Kennedy. It appears that perhaps some small hope of liberal victories still remain despite the two new white guys.-- Updated 7/6Economist says that liberals will now rightly focus on winning in the legislature rather than the Supreme Court. I think that there certainly is great power there.

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Link The US asserts they have been training and arming Shiites in Iraq to attack Americans.

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Link Wow, it seems so beneath the President to use his veto power in petty and mean ways.

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[Towleroad] [BBC] And 17% received death threats. I wonder if it isn't even worse in the US. Education spokesman: "Whether a young person is gay, seen as being gay or has gay parents, homophobic bullying can make their life a misery."# # #Queerty reports HRC is asking for your support to urge Congress to pass hate crimes protections. At least listen to the Cindy Lauper classic in the

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Link My GP is great, a nice asian woman with seemingly infinite patience. This article talks about how some doctors forgot to ask what patient was there for. For some reason, I can easily imagine some male doctors doing exactly what's mentioned in the article: self-centered b*stards. And you know that I haven't anything against males, but I can just perfectly picture it. A tall, white, male

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Slashdot pointed to the Register article saying that Intelligent design isn't science. Vastly different from what our government under the Bush administration would say.

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Link Elizabeth Edwards says she is fine with same-sex marriage. This puts her somewhat opposite her husband. I'm afraid for me there's no collateral benefit from that, unless she convinces her husband to change his stance. Meanwhile, possible long shot independent candidate Bloomberg marches in the New York pride parade along with Mayor Ed Koch. Although Bloomberg is left-handed, he

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Link Apparently, humans are immune to PtERV1, a monkey virus. Some monkeys are immune to HIV. It's theorized that for humans to be immune to PtERV1 they lost the capability to be immune to HIV. Not sure if I understand why that must be from the article, but perhaps some of the proteins needed to be immune to PtERV1 are different from what's needed for HIV, so a 'normal' evolutionary process

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Link Cheney is using executive privilege and lawmaker's privilege to obscure his tracks. The guy is a total sleezeball to need to make this kind of argument.

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Link Unfortunately, the state Senate is still held by Republicans. They say they're not even going to debate the bill in that Chamber. Too bad because Spitzer introduced it. California's got the opposite problem.

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Link Previous incentives to increase domestic production will be replaced with alternative fuel research funding.

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Link At least someone is thinking.-- Updated 6/24Apparently it didn't work. High level Al Qaeda has left the region. Link

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Link For all his claims to be a populist, Lou Dobbs seems too much of an advocate for xenophobic and racist causes.

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Link The Democrats may pass a Pay as You Go bill, but would the President veto it? The author notes future structural deficits from medicare and social security are a major concern.

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Link This is supposed to be a moral organization, but they're not averse to asking for money/donations for a particular humanitarian purpose and doing something else entirely with that money.

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Link Interesting that Honda agreed that no such tradeoff was necessary. The US automakers are pushing back hard. Probably Toyota is quietly in the same camp as Honda.

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Link The CS Monitor reports on a much smaller, but hopefully effective civilian surge which will bring training for oversight and other governing functions.

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Link Well I suppose one can't be surprised. It's sort of like war. All the rules change once someone says it's war.

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Link Pretty disgusting. People say the Chinese are just interested in making money. And here it is openly demonstrated that they really don't care how they make money. The feed makers were defrauding the buyers. The chemical makers claim the chemicals were harmless, but they basically turned a blind eye and were enablers for the feed makers to cheat others -- knowing that the feed has no

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Link More excellent stuff from China. Makes me want to just go out and buy everything with a made in China name. The only problem is that Chinese ingredients seem so ubiquitous. They can supply pet food, toothpaste and who knows what else.-- Updated 6/2Link Tainted Chinese toothpaste in dollar stores in the US.-- Updated 6/10Link Too much preservatives in chili sauces from China.-- Updated

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Link Perhaps it's just political posturing, but China seems to be taking a stance -- although a weak one -- on preventing damage to the environment through climate change.

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Link Dare I say it? Does it seem like it's not working? I do tend to give up too easily. Perhaps we should wait longer for more soldiers to get killed.See this post on a similar theme about Delta company.

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Link I must say Roberts and Alito seem to be putting pressure on the more liberal side of the court. Ginsburg seems determined to bring their new conservative opinions to public view.

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Link Some interesting ideas there. I should think there should be plenty more, if designers make it a priority.

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Link Hadn't heard much about SF in Iraq, but I guess they're doing somethin'.

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Link In the article, a Sunni says: "Still, we need America to make the country more stable and not leave Iraq in the trouble, which they, themselves, have caused." I'm sure I'll regret saying this, but I think things will get worse when the Americans leave certainly. But then they will get better as it gets naturally partitioned and American forces stop artificially propping up the place.

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