First, RIP Howard Zinn and JD Salinger. Strange to lose such great men on the same day. Perhaps they’d been keeping themselves alive for the State of the Union. I think there’s a John Adams and Thomas Jefferson story to be had under there. Tonight at 8pm PST, the online test to qualify for Jeopardy! …
Monthly Archive: January 2010
Jan 27 2010
The Defense Rests; Prop 8 Trial
The trial is over for now. In the near future, the judge will call both sides to give their closing arguments. He wants to familiarize himself with all of the documents he’s been given. It’s a lot. Today we learned even more about the defense witness Mr. Blankenhorn, now being called Blankenhorny thanks to a …
Jan 27 2010
Prop 8: Wait, Really?
Lead Witness for Banning Gay Marriage: I believe that adoption of same sex marriage would be likely to improve the well-being of gay and lesbian households and their children. This man, Mr. Blankenhorn, is so vitriolically opposed to gay marriage that he’s the primary witness for the defense. He thinks gay marriage will be good …
Jan 26 2010
What happened in Prop 8 today?
The defense (yes on 8 ) called it’s first witness. The Plaintiffs objected because they did not consider him to be an expert. During the cross, the Plaintiffs got the witness to admit that DADT and DOMA were “Official Discrimination,” caused the Defense council to object that their own witness was not an expert (to …
Jan 25 2010
Mild Whining and Jeopardy
Next Monday I start my new gig as the Lead Assistant Editor on a reality show. One that my mother loves and my boyfriend hates… so I guess that’s fair. I will be making more money (yay!) but working 10 more hours a week (boo!). That’s like more than an additional day of hours. And …
Jan 22 2010
This is the gayest thing ever
To start this off, I am not a Figure Skating fan, in as much as I don’t follow figure skating, and I only like men figure skaters and the US seems to be mostly into it’s lady figure skaters. And then there’s this boy… man, I guess, he’s my age anyway. He apparently has a …
Jan 22 2010
SCOTUS thoughts continued
Would it be possible for the Supreme Court to declare Prop 8 unconstitutional because it allows some gays to be married but not others, while not actually ruling on the constitutionality of gay marriage in general?
Jan 22 2010
Who will vote how on Prop 8; Supreme Court Justice breakdown
So, I’ve been trying to figure out how I think SCOTUS breaks down for the Prop8 vote. I am going to be fairly optimistic based on the quality of the argument and Olson’s record with SCOTUS up to now. Argued over 50 cases in front of SCOTUS, has won 3/4ths of them, including the decision …
Jan 22 2010
Excerpt from Prop 8 Trial today
Plaintiffs will call Dr William Tam who is a supporter of Prop 8. David Boies will examine. Boies: The Netherlands legalized polygamy? Tam: It shows the moral decay of a liberal country, in their views of sex B: You say here that the Netherlands legalized polygamy and incest after legalizing same sex marriage? T: Yes …
Jan 20 2010
Maleficent
It seems that Tim has a hankering for SLEEPING BEAUTY… but not really… You see, he’s going to tell the story from Maleficent’s point of view. In fact, it’ll be called MALEFICENT. She was always the most interesting character in that story, but we never knew why she hated those three little fairy wenches… or …
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Kate Donovan
Ashley's co-blogger is a third year student at Northwestern University who runs on coffee and snark. . At some point, she'd like to make people sit on couches and tell her about their feelings, but right now she writes in different places around the internet and makes silly faces when she doesn't know what to say. She's the president of her local Secular Student Alliance affiliate, and she is on the Secular Woman speakers bureau. Opinions do not necessarily reflect those of the Secular Student Alliance
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