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    Rep. Giffords' life-saving gay intern targeted for recall for not being a "REAL man"

    http://www.advocate.com/politics/2013/08/26/gay-intern-who-saved-rep-giffords-targeted-antigay-fliers-recall-election It's a Tucson-specific thing, to be sure, but I find this sort of attack/criticism to be hilariously stupid and something that says more about the people who made the flier...
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    Gov. Pence: States with anti-SSM amendments have fastest growing economies

    http://www.nomblog.com/36712 I have no idea what data, if any, Pence is using to support the correlation he's saying exists. If we accept his premise, however, we can also logically say that anti-SSM amendments cause obesity, low education levels, and low median household income levels...
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    Real-life 'Doogie Howser'

    http://www.advocate.com/youth/2013/08/04/watch-meet-gay-teen-whose-discoveries-will-change-world So much for gay people never contributing anything to benefit society. (a stupid claim by some, to be sure, and this is just another example of how stupid that claim is) If this kid wasn't...
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    Couple told to go to back of the bus

    http://www.advocate.com/politics/2013/08/04/watch-gay-couple-told-move-back-bus Clearly, given the company's reaction to the incident, this was not something sanctioned by anyone in charge... and the bus driver was putting his personal feelings where they don't belong. I hope the driver was...
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    Baton Rouge Sheriff made aware of old SCOTUS ruling

    http://www.out.com/entertainment/popnography/2013/07/30/sheriff-apologizes-gay-snare Good, glad he finally woke up and smelled the obvious.
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    Dollars to donuts, this one is gonna be another Larry Craig or Ted Haggard

    http://www.advocate.com/politics/2013/07/21/watch-ken-cuccinelli-still-abhors-personal-challenge-homosexuality I mean, come on... "personal challenge" of homosexuality? Any bets on when his secret gay affairs will come bursting out?
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    WI State Fair cream puffs to be made with IL cream

    http://host.madison.com/news/opinion/column/dave_zweifel/plain-talk-cream-puffs-outsourced-to-illinois-tell-a-larger/article_eb6987d2-f724-5221-8f09-27094fd7ae50.html Pretty sad when the Dairy State doesn't have a dairy big enough to supply the required amount of cream to meet the demand for...
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    I wonder if this guy will get to keep his job

    http://www.examiner.com/article/salvation-army-gay-parents-deserve-to-be-put-to-death Then comes the safe statement from the Salvation Army. What do you think? Will this Craibe guy get to keep his job?
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    It Could Happen To You

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR9gyloyOjM Sad. Wills might have given Shane some legal significance, but given how strident Tom's family was, all bets are off.
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    North Korea building 'world class' ski resort

    http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/27/travel/north-korea-ski-resort/index.html?hpt=hp_t3 The caption for this picture made me giggle: "North Korea media reports said Kim Jong Un provided guidance on how to build the ski resort." Yeah, I bet Lil' Kim knows everything about building everything...
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    Boy Scouts' anti-gay policy bad for business?

    According to two anonymous (and gay) full-time employees of the BSA: http://www.advocate.com/youth/2013/05/22/anonymous-boy-scouts-employee-says-antigay-policy-hurts-business I can't say I'm surprised. This isn't the 1950s anymore; the business/corporate world is practically falling over...
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    TX Judge Breaks Up Lesbian Home

    http://www.dallasvoice.com/judge-lesbian-moms-partner-10147997.html I hope they appeal and this judge's dumbass ruling gets overturned.
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    NTSB recommends nation-wide .05 as legal BAC threshold

    http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/14/us/ntsb-blood-alcohol/index.html I understand it is part of the NTSB's job to make recommendations like this, but why don't we do what is already working: stepped up enforcement. Lowering the limit wouldn't save that many more lives: I'm pretty sure that better...
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    Is Rush Limbaugh still relevant?

    http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/14/opinion/obeidallah-rush-limbaugh/index.html?hpt=hp_t4 He was never relevant to me in the first place. I can't say I'd shed a tear if he got booted.
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    Bachmann: 9/11 was God's judgement

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=elvm7MPquBE Wonder if it will also be God's judgement when she gets voted out of office.
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    RI, DE, and soon MN?

    http://www.advocate.com/politics/marriage-equality/2013/05/09/minnesota-house-approves-marriage-equality-75-59 Minnesota appears poised to join Rhode Island and Delaware in legalizing same-sex marriage. More good news for a majority of America, bad news for a shrinking minority.
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    Bryan Fischer won't answer...

    ... the question about whether he's ever had a gay impulse, probably because he's either insecure about his sexuality or doesn't want to admit something that would hurt his anti-homosexual cause. http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/bryan-fischer-wont-answer-simple-yes-or-no-question If...
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    Bill Maher: 'enemy combatant'

    This is one I can totally agree with from Bill: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj85PgMtZcM "So, I'm not saying we should let our guard down. But, our ever-expanding Homeland Security Department has gotten $790 billion since 9/11. Bin Laden's plan wasn't to kill us all. It was to scare us into...
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    Does the IL GOP *want* to be out of power forever?

    Apparently so, because their chairman was ousted simply for backing same-sex marriage: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-pat-brady-gay-marriage-20130507,0,528968.story I think the Democratic party in IL will continue to have control of both the legislature and governor's...
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    The puppeteer pulls the strings

    http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/10/17691775-social-conservatives-warn-priebus-they-could-abandon-gop?lite I hope the GOP has the intelligence and courage to tell social conservatives to sit down and shut up. Who are the social conservatives going to flock to? If they want to have...
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    More failure for the National Organization for Marriage

    Exaggerating the number of people who came to their "March for Marriage": http://www.goodasyou.org/good_as_you/2013/04/why-the-national-organization-for-marriage-fails-well-one-reason.html Caught lying about receiving support from Chicago Bears...
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    AZ bathroom bill targets transgenders

    http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/article_accdd35e-f75b-5f89-b1aa-4523fae90cab.html I had no idea transgender people were common enough, let alone in Arizona, to warrant an act of the state legislature and a 6-month prison sentence. Whoever thought of this bill should be recalled... for...
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    Can anyone explain to me...

    ... how all the gun restriction laws being proposed or passed in various states and at the national level are going to make any difference, at all, in preventing the tragedies out of which they spawned? I just cannot fathom how they're going to at all be effective. In many ways, imposing round...
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    Higgs Boson Found, and (almost) confirmed

    http://www.space.com/20226-newfound-particle-is-higgs.html Interesting, and potentially a very important moment. If you wonder why any of us who aren't particle physicists should care, I remind you that when the electron was discovered in 1897 it was useless; it had no practical...
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    'Colon Ejaculation' ...

    http://www.gay.net/politics/2013/03/13/colon-ejaculation-marriage-equalitys-latest-threat While no region of the country is more extremely idiotic than "the south", there's plenty of idiocy elsewhere.. even in my 'neck of the woods (the midwest). He drifts in and out of accuracy almost with...
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    I don't think this is "bullying"

    http://blogs.windsorstar.com/2013/03/08/protest-launched-in-support-of-gay-student-who-says-a-catholic-teacher-bullied-her/ I think this is a gross overreaction, and not bullying. If giving the student disgusted looks is the most egregious thing, according to the article, that the teacher...
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    Arkansas now has most restrictive abortion laws in the country

    http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/07/politics/arkansas-abortion/index.html?hpt=hp_t2 Does Arkansas have a big abortion epidemic? Seems like a hugely unnecessary foray into a social issue when there are infinitely bigger fish for them to fry.
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    Violent Arrest at Sydney's Mardi Gras

    http://www.advocate.com/crime/2013/03/06/watch-violent-arrest-caught-tape-during-gay-pride-sets-outrage Police brutality or reasonable response? Looks like police brutality to me. I hope the officer responsible gets the book thrown at him. If it were up to me to settle things, he'd be...
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    News: Yahoo work-from-home policy riles workers everywhere

    http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/26/tech/yahoo-reaction/index.html?hpt=hp_bn5 Bolded parts are what I particularly agree with.
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    Was NOM representative Jennifer Morse inappropriate?

    ... in using Tyler Clementi's name. http://www.advocate.com/society/2013/03/04/tyler-clementis-family-wants-apology-nom I'd say it's definitely in extremely poor taste for Morse to use his name like that, but I have such low expectations from NOM that I'm not at all shocked that they did.
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    Approved hairstyles in North Korea

    http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/02/25/these-are-north-koreas-28-state-approved-hairstyles/?hpt=hp_t3 I find this amusing... and sad.
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    Antigay Scottish Cardinal Admits to Inappropriate Sexual Conduct

    http://www.advocate.com/politics/religion/2013/03/03/antigay-scottish-cardinal-admits-inappropriate-sexual-conduct More hypocrisy from the administration of the Catholic church. No other organization could get away with this level of sexual abuse and scandal... and it is incredibly sick that...
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    Illegal to go too slow in the left lane

    http://news.yahoo.com/video/proposed-legislation-ticket-drivers-going-220056654.html Sitting in the left lane going no faster (or worse, slower) than other vehicles is one of my biggest pet-peeves, but I don't think another law is going to make any difference; the police have too many other...
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    The Boy Scouts Made Me Gay

    http://www.out.com/news-opinion/2013/02/25/boy-scouts-made-me-gay A good (and often funny) opinion piece on the BSA.
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    Huntsman now supports same-sex marriage

    http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/marriage-equality-is-a-conservative-cause485/ He makes a commonplace case for supporting same-sex marriage; the Republican party will continue to lose national elections if they remain so vocally and politically opposed to it. Getting this...
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    Bisexuality in the year 1000 BC

    http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/02/prehistoric_pornography_chinese_carvings_show_explicit_copulation.single.html This should put to rest any silly and stupid notion that homosexual sex was a modern media/cultural creation.
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    TN man quits job after getting W2 with 666 on it

    http://finance.yahoo.com/news/tennessee-man-quits-job-after-getting-w-2-with--666--on-it-195255048.html Stupid, stupid, stupid. Can't say I'm surprised, however.
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    WI and their quest for a statewide student information system

    http://www.startribune.com/local/189581601.html?refer=y As an IT professional that has been employed by a few WI public school districts throughout my career, I find the entire idea of a state-imposed one-size-fits-all student information system to be total bullsh!t. All SIS (student...
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    Boy Scouts stop taking calls, Tony Perkins freaks out

    http://www.advocate.com/youth/2013/01/31/boy-scouts-stop-taking-calls-tony-perkins-freaks-out Clearly a sign of desperation on Perkins' part. Perhaps he knows that his point of view is not as popular as it once was and has to wring as much out of his dwindling support as he can.
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    Bill proposed in AZ to criminalize "intentional" HIV exposure

    http://www.hivplusmag.com/case-studies/law-crime/2013/01/29/arizona-politician-wants-jail-people-who-expose-others-hiv I understand why bills like these are proposed, but as a practical matter it is indeed very difficult to prove that someone intentionally exposed someone to HIV or other STDs...