Question of the Day

What’s your favorite activity that costs no money?

Big news for Irish transsexuals….

A transsexual has won the right to have her Inter and Leaving Certificates [basically, high school diplomas] amended to reflect her new name. The woman who was registered at birth as male and suffers from Gender Identity Disorder changed her name by deed poll. For employment purposes she wanted her state examination certificates to reflect [...]

Cross-pond rightwing alliances….

Shakers who regularly read my posts will know that I have a very positive view of the situation for LGBT folks in the Republic of Ireland.
That’s not to say, however, that our tiny island doesn’t harbour its share of bigots and homophobes.
A Democratic Unionist Party member is under pressure to apologise for allegedly saying he [...]

A More Civil Union

New Hampshire joins the growing list of states that recognize civil unions.
Gay couples in New Hampshire can start applying for many of the rights and responsibilities of marriage as early as January under a law Gov. John Lynch signed Thursday establishing civil unions.
“We in New Hampshire have had a long and proud tradition taking the [...]

In Things That Threaten to Crush Me with the Weight of Their Sadness

Fort Lewis, Washington:
So many Fort Lewis soldiers are being killed in Iraq the Army base will no longer hold individual memorial services.
Starting next month Fort Lewis says it will hold one memorial a month for all the dead soldiers.
Fuck this war. Fuck this president. Fuck the entire Congress who won’t fucking end it.
And [...]

Flying Disease Man Has a Name

…for better or for worse. It has been reported that the Flying TB Patient is a 31-year-old lawyer from Atlanta named Andrew Speaker. And that his father-in-law is a microbiologist who conducts research on tuberculosis for the CDC. Of course.
This guy flew home through Canada and then drove into the US to [...]

“I am the president!”

As go tales told out of school about President Deludednutz, this one is fairly alarming:
The White House sees terrorists as born, not created by history, bearing the mark of Cain, not the mark of circumstance. There is a scarlet “T” written on their foreheads at birth and the only answer is to destroy them. This [...]

Read-Ems

Steve Kirsch: Who should be our next President? (Via Nicole at C&L.)
Lauren: We Got Your Punk Rock Sex Symbols Right Here (NSFW. This is literally the exact post I was going to write, including song and text! I love you, Lauren.)
Christopher Tassava: Peace, Love, and Understanding
Scout Prime: I think it’s in the wingnut [...]

Well, That’s Refreshing

[Spudsy here, just sneaking in a quick post from internship exile during the lunch hour.]
Bill O’Reilly confirms what we’ve been saying all along:
O’REILLY: But do you understand what the New York Times wants, and the far-left want? They want to break down the white, Christian, male power structure, which you’re a part, and so am [...]

War on Terror + Cold War = Ultimate Neocon fantasy

You know, haven’t we all missed the old days, when we’d get to hear daily about the inevitable threat to our very existence in the form of a nuke storm? Well, those Cold War days are coming back.
Putin: U.S. has triggered new arms race

Evolution by God

Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS) has an op-ed in the New York Times wherein he tries to explain why he raised his hand at the GOP debate when the candidates were asked which of them did not believe in evolution.
The premise behind the question seems to be that if one does not unhesitatingly assert belief in [...]

Al Gore on Countdown

Part One

Attorneygate Update

Rove protégé Tim Griffin, who replaced Attorneygater Bud Cummins as Eastern Arkansas’ US Attorney, has resigned.
Michael Teague, a spokesperson for Senator Mark Pryor (D-AR), commented: “His departure from the US Attorney Office for the Eastern District of Arkansas is a positive development and the Senator is looking forward to having credible leadership restored there.” [...]

His Soul is Black with Perfection

From Jeffrey Goldberg’s great piece in The New Yorker, “The Republican Implosion,” comes this passage about the erstwhile exterminator who survives like a cockroach, Tom DeLay:

Earlier this year, he published a memoir called “No Retreat, No Surrender” (his spokeswoman says that he was not stealing from Bruce Springsteen, and that the phrase has been used [...]

Two-Minute Nostalgia Sublime

Top Cat

For Mr. Shakes, who loves Top Cat because he’s “a tootally cool cat, dood!”

Daily Round-Up

Melissa: Two-Minute Nostalgia Sublime
Brynn: Sometimes It’s So Discouraging
Melissa: Plame Was Covert at Time of Leak
Melissa: Kip Dynamite to Replace Wolfowitz at World Bank
Melissa: ZOMG: Project For The New American Bachelor
Kathy: Hey, Guess What? Torture Doesn’t Work!
Melissa: Freddy Got Fingered
Tart: In Which Barak Obama Goes Up In My Estimation
Kathy: American Deaths in Iraq Hits Two-Year High
Mustang [...]

Pres. Bush Wants Iraq To Be the New South Korea

Pres. Bush is having visions again, and in his visions he sees the United States staying in Iraq for the next 50 years, just like we did in South Korea:
President George W. Bush would like to see a lengthy U.S. troop presence in Iraq like the one in South Korea to provide stability but not [...]

Mighty Joe Lieberman

Joe Lieberman reporting from Iraq:
CNN reports that Lieberman is on an unannounced “surprise” visit to Baghdad. Paula Hancocks followed Lieberman around. She talked to Lieberman and reported, “He said he was happy with the progress. He was devastated by the fact that May was turning in to the deadliest month since November 2004. But he [...]

Question of the Day

Who needs to make a comeback?
It can be an actor, a writer, a singer, a comedian, an athlete…any profession. Now, we’re not talking about a comeback from the dead here; just someone (alive) who’s had a good career in the past which has faded for whatever reason, and you wish it weren’t so.
I’m going [...]

Uhhh, What Happened To Protecting the American People?

As Liss mentioned below, the Bush administration is taking legal action to prevent a small meatpacking company in Kansas from testing its entire herd for mad cow disease. WTF, you say? Oh, don’t worry. They have a good reason: They want to protect the giant meatpackers from consumer pressure to test their cows [my emphasis]: