News 8/21/10

(Chuck Colson: A man with a tiny heart wants you to hate all the right people.)

• Australian elections too close to call.

• While we're waiting: Here's an excellent essay about the struggle for marriage equality in Australia, describing their circumstances in the wake of Judge Walker's ruling from California. With the elections this close it seems certain that the major parties will have to compromise with one of the teeny parties. (Hat tip to Dr. Snickerdoodle who has requested pancakes this morning.)

• Support for equality is steadily increasing in the US. (Are you listening Maggie and Chris? Of course you are. Your desperate, sweaty hate-rallies are going to get thinner and more pathetic until you finally have to give up. Let me know if you need help with your resumes. We'll have to find a way to describe your malevolence in kinder, gentler terms. How about "hate stylist"? Give me a call. We'll do coffee. Cheap, lousy coffee.)

News 8/20/10

("Don't blame me," said the rooster to the hen. Photo by Muhammad Mahdi Karim.)

• 380 Million is a lot of eggs to recall. Lots of salmonella cases reported. Chickens angry.

• US combat mission in Iraq is over. Sort of.

• American public unhappy with war in Afghanistan. Didn't Alexander the Great give up on Afghanistan too?

• Australian elections look like a real nail-biter as we get down to the wire. Voters are grumpy.

• Dr. Laura has friends who are neither straight nor white. She also likes the Mary Tyler Moore show. Dr. Laura sucks.

News 8/19/10

("Your smile lights up the room." Pope Urbanus VI 1378 - 1389)

• Final combat troops removed from Iraq, leaving "only" 50,000 "advisers." I suppose that's progress.

• Ha ha. UK Commission rules Catholic adoption agency can't discriminate against the queers.

• Mexico City's mayor sues Catholic Bishop for claiming the Mayor bribed the Supreme Court in favor of Marriage Equality.

• France annexes the Sudatenland. I'm only kidding. However, the French seem to be staging a huge World War II reenactment by expelling Gypsies from their nation.

• I don't understand Australian politics, but I am happy that Julia Gillard is panicking ahead of her country's vote. Anyone who opposes marriage equality should spend more time sweating about their future. N'est pas?

News 8/18/10

(Today in Fabulous: Eartha Kitt. "My smile is brilliant, my glance is tender. But I'm noted most for my unspoiled gender." Hat tip to Lil Larry.)

• Obama visits Ohio, explains why everything doesn't suck as bad as you think it does.

• FOX News donates big wad of cash to GOP Governors Assn. Dems annoyed for obvious reasons. (What the F did you expect from FOX News?)

• Richard Socarides has written a nice piece about Obama's contradictory stance on Marriage Equality. (Let me say one more time: I only vote for people who support full marriage equality. That includes you Mr. President.)

• In related news: Imperial County's appeal to intervene in the Prop8 case has been bundled in with everything else in the Ninth Circuit Appeal of Judge Walker's ruling. (At least I think it has. I'm not a lawyer, but that's what it looks like to me.)

• Hey Target! Up yours and the horse you rode in on. Cordially, The Queers.

News 8/17/10

(I have an idea. Why don't we all just wait a little longer?)

• The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has extended Judge Walker's stay to give a three-judge panel time to consider whether Prop8 proponents have Article III standing to appeal the case. The hearing is scheduled for December 6th.  CNN refers to California's marriage amendment as "controversial." Taking away people's civil rights is now "controversial." Whew!

• German High Court rules that country's tax laws should treat gay and straight couples the same.

• Teeny borough in Pennsylvania enacts LGBTQ protections.

• Zsa Zsa has had enough, intends to die at her Bel Air home.

News 8/16/10

(Today in hair: Wella Balsam.)

• Defenders of "Traditional Marriage" must submit their brief at 9AM PST to thwart the happiness of expectant couples across California. Will the 9th Circuit's three judge panel grant their motion to stay? or will Judge Walker's ruling striking down Prop 8 go into effect?

• New Jersey Supreme Court refuses to hear Marriage Equality case. Three judge panel may fear retribution from homophobic governor.

• Daniel Radcliffe thinks narrow-minded fear of LGBTs is gradually fading from society. Is he right? or does this prove the path to hell is paved with Harry Potter novels?

• Anti-equality Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard wants to keep her job by denying marriage rights to gays and pretending there's no such thing as global warming.

• ISS crew attempts another spacewalk to fix ailing station. One astronaut offers to walk to nearest gas station.