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In the grand history of regressive social policy pushed by the GOP this is a shining example of douchebaggery: The State Attorney General for Virgina issued a letter recently to universities and colleges which, in part, read: It is my advice that the law and public policy of the Commonwealth of Virginia prohibit a college [ READ MORE ]
I don’t drink milk, cow milk is for cows and there’s a reason humans stop drinking human milk after a certain age: Kid gets ousted from private Catholic school cause he has two mommies. Way to punish a child for the “sins” of the mother, gays. Operation Exodus: where a local sheriff arms fellow Louisianans with guns [ READ MORE ]
I referenced Lawrence Lessig a couple of weeks ago in regards to his book, Free Culture and a video explaining the current status of ‘remix culture’ as it’s come to be known. Today Mr. Lessig made news of his own: Nearly a year ago, we wrote about how a YouTube presentation done by well known [ READ MORE ]
Or: how media companies drive people to piracy – a comic in 22 parts. [ READ MORE ]
I typically enjoy AMERICAblog’s gay section. They do good work and provide some activist, realpolitik backbone to what is typically a rather bland gay blogosphere. Yet I think I’ll have to disagree with them on this: Note the BBC’s use of the rather homophobic and outdated phrase “practising homosexuals” to refer to gay people. [ READ MORE ]
Via TPM comes this: In an interview with blogger Mike Stark, Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) appeared to say that African-Americans are worse off today because of legalized abortion, than they were compared to slavery. “It seems like humanity is very gifted at hiding from something that’s obviously true. I mean in this country [ READ MORE ]
I think Johnny Weir’s response to this is spot on: [ READ MORE ]
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