The Restoring Honor rally at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial will be held in Washington, D.C., this Saturday, Aug. 28, from 10 am to 1 pm, and if I can attract or generate at least $160 by 5 pm on Friday, Aug. 27, I can attend. That’s the amount I need to pay Awesome …
Monthly Archives: August 2010
A surgeon learns what hospice care can do to improve the end-of-life experience and reduce medical costs
I’ve been providing end-of-life care for my loved ones for most of the last 10 years. Hospice care did so much to improve the end-of-life experience for my late life partner and my mother that my father had me make arrangements so that he can have it, too, when his time comes. (New gentle readers: …
Obama expects to be president ‘eight to 10 years’
In 2008 Obama’s last chance to get me to vote for him passed when he selected Joe Biden as his running mate instead of Hillary Clinton. The hot button issue that made me look to McCain/Palin was my hope that McCain would be more supportive of strong borders and against illegal alien amnesty than “Open …
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In memory of dear Barnaby Jones Pickles
As my regular gentle readers know, I adore Jennifer Lawson, The Bloggess. When the video of the pug who sang, “Batman,” first came out, I was shy to link it in honor of her pug, Barnaby Jones Pickles, because I didn’t want to look like I was doing it for the traffic instead of the …
The REAL reason lesbians and gays on the Left support amnesty
Dear Mark Koenig drew my attention to a post at Newsreal aimed at smearing gays and lesbians as supporting amnesty for illegal aliens as their contribution to the Left’s conspiracy to destroy the U.S. as a capitalistic, Constitutional democratic republic and make it a totalitarian Communistic state — which is, of course, MUCH worse than …
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‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ and lesbian servicemembers
“Don’t ask, don’t tell” results in discharges of lesbians in numbers far above the proportion of women serving in each of the U.S. armed forces, according to statistics for 2009 from the Pentagon released by the Palm Center, a gay-advocacy group at the University of California, Santa Barbara: Army: Lesbians accounted for 48 percent of …
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Five ways to deal with too many tabs in Firefox
I love the convenience of being able to have a lot of tabs open in Firefox, but once you have 50 or 60 tabs open, it does get confusing. Here are five handy ways to deal with too many tabs open in Firefox.
Logical fallacy bingo
Courtesy of Anthropocon.
‘Barcarolle’ from ‘The Tales of Hoffman’
Lyrics to ‘Barcarolle,’ sung by mezzo Elina Garanca and soprano Anna Netrebko, from the third act of The Tales of Hoffman by Offenbach (full libretto in French with English translation here): Belle nuit, ô nuit d’amour Souris à nos ivresses Nuit plus douce que le jour Ô belle nuit d’amour! Le temps fuit et sans …
Cracked.com on why being denied marriage is deadly for gays
I was just browsing Cracked.com for a story on a post I’m planning when I came across one that may help my dear gentle readers understand why being denied marriage equality is deadly for lesbians and gays and goes a long way toward creating the social instability for which our communities are attacked. I’ve mentioned …
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