Morning News 4/20/10

LZ Granderson over at the CNN Opinion page has an excellent post about Obama's recent Hospital visitation ruling and how it leads naturally to a full, immediate repeal of DADT.  Heartfelt and well written.

In related news:

Get Equal members have chained themselves to the White House gates to demand that the President stick to his promise to repeal DADT this year. (Joe.My.God has the latest.)

Supreme Court rules that animal cruelty videos are protected free speech.

Stunning satellite pictures of Iceland's tongue twister volcano over at BBC News.

Glamor maven and all around hot gal Linda Mercury is feeling a bit under the weather today.  Let's all send her cyber hugs, best wishes and chicken soup.  Kisses, sweetie - feel better soon!

(Public domain image of Jean Leon Gerome's 1847 oil painting "Cock Fight" from Wikipedia.)

Chocolate Smackdown!

Thanks and kisses to everyone who voted in our Dark v Milk Chocolate Poll. Here are the binding, non-negotiable results that we all must live by until we die:

Dark chocolate is the winner by a landslide!

61% prefer dark chocolate.

27% prefer milk chocolate.

11% think that both have their charms.

Nobody hates chocolate.

50% want me to ask about naked men next time.

This week's quiz:  Booze!

I prefer:

Red Wine

White Wine

Whiskey

Vodka

Tequila

Anything, as long as it burns.

Booze makes Baby Jesus Cry

Hey, I thought you were gonna ask about naked men!

Morning News 4/02/10

Just Kidding! Or is it April Fool's? Secretary of the Army John McHugh said that gay soldiers he spoke to about being gay under DADT may actually be fired for talking with him openly about their sexuality.

Congratulations! Texas grants lesbian couple the state's first gay divorce. Seriously, best wishes to the separating couple and their young son. Sorry you have to fight so hard for something that most everyone else does without getting the feds involved.

Naive, irritating and shallow analysis from (gasp!) a philosophy major from Princeton about how we shouldn't queer the census. Quick aside to Brendan: Your statement, "LGBT persons are already counted, just not as LGBT persons..." is probably the funniest thing I've ever read. Really, I think I peed a little when I got to that.

Dark v. Milk Chocolate debate on Facebook has so far yielded: 3 prefer Milk, 2 prefer Dark and one person thinks that each type of chocolate has its proper place. I think I'll set up an informal poll here and see if we can get a more statistically significant result.

Perhaps we can combine the Chef's love of chocolate and shirtless/naked men in a future poll?

(Photo of Dark Chocolate Truffle from Oswego Tea.)