Andrew Sullivan said that African Americans in CA, as a group, voted overwhelmingly for Prop 8, the only group to do so. Occasionally he brings up homophobia in the Black community, which is basically religiously motivated.
You know, with the exception of one deadly and unpredictable midget, this girl is the smallest cargo I've ever had to transport. Yet by far the most troublesome. Does that seem right to you?
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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.
tommyrot - Nov 05, 2008 5:29:36 am PST #9404 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.
Jesse - Nov 05, 2008 5:32:00 am PST #9405 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Ta-Nehisi Coates, who is black:
Still on a gut, emotional level, this makes me sick. If someone wants to give me a reason why gay people shouldn't be able to marry that doesn't, at its root, boil down to "yuck," I guess I'd love to hear it. But really that isn't the point. I've always maintained that you don't have to like black people to do the right thing. Same thing here. I'm not very interested in folks's homophobia. I'm interested in why they think they should be in the business of dictating terms of love to two consenting adults. It's disgusting. And we need to let this shit go. There may be great, sound reasons beyond--the blacks are pathological!!--to explain this. But there are no great, sound reasons that excuse it. Cut this shit out. We know better. Even if other people didn't.
tommyrot - Nov 05, 2008 5:32:01 am PST #9406 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.
I was bouncy on the subway and wanted to give people hi-fives and say "We did It!", but everyone looked the same as every other day: tired, stonefaced, emotionless.
I'd say maybe 1/4th of the people on my train looked more enthusiastic and happy than normal. I was tempted to try to start up an Obama cheer, to see how many responded....
Jesse - Nov 05, 2008 5:32:40 am PST #9407 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I was extra tired! But happy inside my head.
tommyrot - Nov 05, 2008 5:34:32 am PST #9408 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.
Ta-Nehisi Coates, who is black:
That was cool.
Jessica - Nov 05, 2008 5:38:05 am PST #9409 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I was bouncy on the subway and wanted to give people hi-fives and say "We did It!", but everyone looked the same as every other day: tired, stonefaced, emotionless.
Last night people were hugging each other on the street, according to my co-worker who was watching the returns at Rockefeller Center. I think this morning we were all too hungover from celebrating to be properly bouncy.
tommyrot - Nov 05, 2008 5:46:08 am PST #9410 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.
So - opinions on this dress? On the undies underneath?
Gwyneth Paltrow Vamps It Up In Sheer Dress (PHOTOS)
quester - Nov 05, 2008 6:10:19 am PST #9411 of 10001
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
quester - Nov 05, 2008 6:12:19 am PST #9412 of 10001
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
So - opinions on this dress? On the undies underneath?
A big "who cares"? So over Paltrow.
Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 05, 2008 6:14:48 am PST #9413 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I woke up this morning to the sound of Maya Angelou reading poetry on the CBS Morning News. Best wake-up call Ever! (And such an improvement over jackhammers and barking dogs yesterday...)
I actually had to talk myself into thinking a McCain presidency wouldn't be all THAT bad before I could get up and check the numbers this morning.
Realistically, the only way this election could have failed to cause a vast improvement over current leadership would have been for McCain to win and then keel over during the post-inauguration celebration in January.
I am really shocked that it is going to pass in California. I thought I lived in the liberalist, bluest of states!
Massachusetts? I know California gets talked up as the liberal den of iniquity by conservative pundits, but it is the state that elected Reagan and Schwarzenegger to multiple terms as governor. My condolences if it turns out that Proposition 8 actually passed, and crossed fingers that it will be repealed as soon as possible.