Tomorrow, Tuesday May 7, is primary day in North Carolina. PLEASE vote against Amendment One and send a message to the rest of the nation that we do not tolerate bigotry in this nation!

I recommend passing on the following link with your post which regards the similar legislation previously passed and later overturned just two years ago in California:
http://tinyurl.com/olbermann8

I believe homophobia is born of ignorance and fear. Gay marriage is of absolutely no threat to your marriage or anyone else's relationship. There may be things wrong with our society, but gay marriage isn't even on the map. It's likely that intolerance to gay marriage causes just as much harm to our society as intolerance to interracial marriage. It is necessary to keep things in perspective. The wholesale executions of Native Americans, slavery, Jim Crow, and Japanese internment are all huge stains on our society. ( Read more... )

It is difficult to believe, but the GOP is so heartless they don't even realize they can lower our opinion of them EVEN FURTHER. That's right boys and girls, the GOP is HELL BENT on disenfranchising the female HALF of the US population. If this keeps up, they'll be for taking away their right to vote next!

I am trying to understand the Republican Strategy, if indeed there is one. It could be an elaborate plot to persuade us into thinking that Republicans are unelectable so that we stay home on election day. Don't give in! Vote on Election Day! Drive the Republicans from their seats in Congress!

Please! copy, paste, share, spread. This stuff is so nuts it sounds more like a story in the Onion. Let your Republican and centrist friends know what's at stake if all these Republicans remain in power!

If you are being beaten, just remember the things you love about your husband

http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/871008/wisconsin_lawmaker_to_spousal_abuse_victims%3A_if_you_are_being_beaten%2C_just_remember_the_things_you_love_about_your_husband/#paragraph5

Though I sincerely like This article in the Huffington Post, about knitting congessmen their own vaginas so they can have their own to play with and stop mucking about with everyone else's, I think we should knit our congressmen some balls.

I suggest the balls be connected by a braided yarn such as to be hung in the middle and the note attached should read, "I've knitted you some balls. Please hang these from your rear view mirror, that they may remind you to put pandering to Social Conservatives behind you."

The war between the Constitution & the Conservatives, and what you can do to help us win. Earlier this morning I posted the following block-quoted section in the journal of a similarly-minded Liberal Constitutionalist. After doing so I decided it was worth posting here as well. I've been thinking of posting something along these lines for weeks now, and having composed it, naturally I want to share. There's more I did not say on Facebook which I will add below the blockquoted section.( Read more... )

The following document was posted to my OKCupid journal. As I'm concerned the journal may become deleted I'm trying to back up some of the more important entries. I'd prefer not to have to reconstruct this one so I'm posting it here. The original document may be found behind this tinyurl, if it still exists: tinyurl.com/weeklygeekly

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And I'm  not certain I'm going to actually run more OKCupid meetups than the three I ran a couple of years ago, but I appreciate this vote of confidence.  ;-)

link: okcupidmeetupdc

If a government contractor is making millions of dollars at taxpayer expense, they should not be able to make unlimited corporate donations to politicians' campaigns.  It is absurd that they are even permitted to do so, but according to This Article, it sure looks like that's exactly what has been happening.

SET YOUR DVR! Tonight The Colbert Report airs on Comedy Central at 11:30 p.m. ET/ 10:30 p.m. CT. Bernie Sanders is a guest and he will of course be pushing this amendment to save our democracy by curtailing corporate political donations.

This is a must-pass! Please help by signing this online petition. It is literally the least you can do.

http://sanders.senate.gov/petition/?uid=f1c2660f-54b9-4193-86a4-ec2c39342c6c

http://www.contactingthecongress.org/

This Monday please call your congresspeople and tell them you oppose SOPA! Don't let them tell you that you don't understand it! Tell them they don't understand it! Tell them this law will inevitably turn every Internet user against the very politicians who supported it. Please spread the word especially on already censored networks such as Facebook and Twitter. Call your friends to make sure they get the word!