YAYAYAYYAYAYAYAYAY!!!
ETA: Box turtle link, complete with Jon Stewart chart and a correction about when it was actually used: [link]
You're like my fairy godmother, and Santa Claus, and Q all wrapped up into one! Q from Bond, not Star Trek.
Buffy ,'Help'
Natter 58: Let's call Venezuela!
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Pix - May 15, 2008 9:06:52 am PDT #6996 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
tommyrot - May 15, 2008 9:15:01 am PDT #6997 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Andrew Sullivan sez:
Yes: the court just ruled for it - sixty years after California's court was the first to strike down miscegenation bans. The most populous state now joins much of the rest of the Western world in bringing gay couples into the civic and human family as equals.
Huh. I did not know about California striking down miscegenation bans....
Fred Pete - May 15, 2008 9:16:58 am PDT #6998 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Lawyers only need to hear two words about the CA decision: strict scrutiny. The rest follows from there.
Fred, do you think he should have gone after Cheney and the neocons as well?
More that the indignation at the end seemed geared to something of the level of the Abu Ghraib revelations. "I gave up golf" seemed more worthy of Bushed!, or possibly the lead item in the Special Comment that continues with the even more outrageous statements.
I also got the impression he checked himself and substituted "hell" for something else.
tommyrot - May 15, 2008 9:17:07 am PDT #6999 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Also from Sullivan: Rainbows On The Mind
This is for you, Jon Stewart. A high school principal banned any clothing that could imply support for gays and lesbians. Including, er, rainbows. A student sued:
During the trial, which was held in Panama City yesterday and today, Ponce de Leon High School's principal David Davis admitted under oath that he had banned students from wearing any clothing or symbols supporting equal rights for gay people. Davis also testified that he believed rainbows were "sexually suggestive" and would make students unable to study because they'd be picturing gay sex acts in their mind. The principal went on to admit that while censoring rainbows and gay pride messages he allowed students to wear other symbols many find controversial, such as the Confederate flag.
He lost the case. Many in Panama City conceded that the Confederate flag also gave them a boner.
JZ - May 15, 2008 9:21:46 am PDT #7000 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
OMG I love my state! This is the best anniversary present I could ever have asked for!
::never stops squeeing::
Nutty - May 15, 2008 9:23:42 am PDT #7001 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I did not know about California striking down miscegenation bans....
1948! Perez v. Sharp. That was, you'll note, 19 years before Loving v. Virginia, which struck it down for all the rest of the states (if they hadn't already taken care of it themselves).
Glamcookie - May 15, 2008 9:24:40 am PDT #7002 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Happy anniversary, JZ and Hec!
Laura - May 15, 2008 9:30:03 am PDT #7003 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
Happy Birthday to Megan!
Happy Anniversary to JZ & Hec!
Go California!
Allyson - May 15, 2008 9:30:13 am PDT #7004 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
HOORAY!!!!
I gotta call my mom who called to tease me about "getting the gay marraige before California" a few years back.
Jesse - May 15, 2008 9:32:29 am PDT #7005 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Whoa! And yay! And whoa!
That!
I gotta call my mom who called to tease me about "getting the gay marraige before California" a few years back.
Hilarious.