And many thanks for this simple truth:
“We loved each other and got married,” she told The Washington Evening Star in 1965, when the case was pending. “We are not marrying the state. The law should allow a person to marry anyone he wants.”
From Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967):
In June 1958, two residents of [...]
The American Civil Liberties Union has some frightening info about who’s on the U.S. Government terror watch list, as well as a snazzy counter.
In September 2007, the Inspector General of the Justice Department reported that the Terrorist Screening Center (the FBI-administered organization that consolidates terrorist watch list information in the United States) had over 700,000 [...]
Head injury statistics from the CDC
The Vancouver City Council approved a new helmet law for bicyclers and skaters. According to this Columbian article, the vote was 5-1 with newly elected Pat Campbell the lone dissenter. Councilman Campbell argues in the following audio that this was not something that the police should be hassling [...]
February 13, 2008 – 11:40 am
This morning, the preznit got up in a browbeating mood, and decided to bang the drum for telecom immunity right in the House’s ears.
First, a little fearmongering to break the ice:
At this moment, somewhere in the world, terrorists are planning new attacks on our country. Their goal is to bring destruction to our shores [...]
February 12, 2008 – 2:01 pm
I was up most of the night with L., who is in the midst of his first unresponsive-to-medication migraine. Three Tylenol 3s and 6 ibuprofen later, and he’s just comfortable enough to veg out on the sofa watching The Cat Returns.
So, I took this morning off, and J. took off this afternoon so he [...]
February 4, 2008 – 10:19 am
With the fundies’ latest baseless court challenge down the drain, domestic partnerships are a reality in Oregon as of today:
“We won this case on the merits,” said Jeana Frazzini, Executive Director of Basic Rights Oregon. “But the real winners today are the thousands of caring, committed couples who will have access to the rights and [...]
December 31, 2007 – 1:38 pm
When professed heterosexual, monogamous Christian men stop getting caught soliciting gay sex in restrooms and porn shops, then you can have a vote on who gets the right to marry.
On second thought, no. No one, least of all a bunch of tightassed homophobes, should have any say in who a person can love or [...]
December 6, 2007 – 11:33 am
© by Erin Lynch
Attended the MoveOn meeting in Vancouver moderated by Carolyn Wolin last night. About 25 local activists were in attendance.A motion to approve a name change for the group to MoveOn/Operation Democracy was approved. This will allow the group to work on issues and projects that are not specifically called [...]
December 3, 2007 – 12:42 pm
Found this video over at the Question Authority group on the Mondo Globo social network site as originally pointed out to me by Rich in an earlier post. The video is definitely simple, but done very well. It is a reminder about our individual rights and the responsibilities that ensue from them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z1buym2xUM
“Free people do bad [...]
November 2, 2007 – 11:13 am
What tristero said:
I am prepared to accept whatever risk that goes along with living in a country that doesn’t ever torture its enemies. Because I know that there is no such risk, that in fact torturing people places a country at greater risk, morally and existentially, than not. Whatever the reasons he has for torturing [...]
October 19, 2007 – 11:51 am
Found at Open Left:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYLzcziOerY
Thanks for standing up for our right to privacy.
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