February 2011
January 2011
Thai Airline Hires Transsexual Flight Crew →
What do you do when you take a big step toward advancing equal rights? Congratulate yourself of course! The president of new Thai airline PC Air is justifiably proud and called himself a “pioneer” after hiring transsexuals as flight attendants.
Need help understanding the Rahm Emanuel... →
strawberrysgirl:
The Tribune still knows the art of a pointed, charged editorial—the AJC forgot this art and now writes the most obvious editorials ever (“We need transportation”! WOW NO SHIT?)—and really helps explain what happened to Rahm for non-judicial folks.
I’ll quote some of the best bits. All emphasis is mine.
In a blistering dissent, Appellate Justice Bertina E. Lampkin accused her...
Sundance 2011: Kevin Smith joins counter-protest...
totalfilm:
Here are some of the placards from the demonstration…
Awesome. I love this guy.
Vice President Biden: It Gets Better →
Da Man!
In Brief: Seriously? School district justifies... →
npi:
As if we needed another absurd incident in our public schools over which to argue about, the geniuses who govern Tacoma’s Truman Middle School decided today to send home a seventh grader who worse a Pittsburgh Steelers jersey on “Seattle Seahawks Appreciation Day.”
It turns out Truman is one of…
Bartlet's Third State of the Union (2.13)
Shallick: This White House uses the First Amendment to protect flag burning, to protect pornography, to ban school prayer. Why, when the Second Amendment clearly says that the government will not infringe upon a citizens right to bear arms--
Toby: It doesn't say that.
Shallick: Toby--
Toby: In fact it doesn't say that at all. It only says that if you remove some words from it. It says "A well-regulated militia, being necessary for the security of a free state, the government shall not infringe." The words "regulated" and "militia" are in the first sentence. I don't think the framers were thinking of three guys and a Dodge Durango.
Shallick: You don't really know what the framers were thinking, do you?
Toby: No. But I do know that if you combine the populations of Great Britain, France, Germany, Japan, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark and Australia, you'll get a population roughly the size of the United States. We had 32,000 gun deaths last year; they had 112. You think it's because Americans are more homicidal by nature? Or do you think it's because those guys have gun control laws?
“The problem with sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, classist, ableist,...”
– I Don’t Care If You’re Offended by Scott Madin (via katelucia)
“Chris Christie’s not kidding when he says he’d like to spend more time with his...”
– Subtitled: “How to lose an election without really trying”