E.T.'s L.J. U.R.L.

The Globe will now be printing the Herald as well.

New England's Komen foundation not cutting funding for Planned Parenthood.

Washington state senate votes for gay marriage.

Sorry I haven't been following up on things, having a crazy couple of weeks... will catch up someday soon, I hope...

This is brilliant, for those who haven't seen it yet...

Copy this sentence into your livejournal if you're in a non-same-sex marriage, and you don't want it "protected" by the bigots who think that gay marriage hurts it somehow.

(via... many)

Someone forwarded me this interesting example of "It's all in how you look at it"... ( Read more... )

And in the unlikely event you haven't already... register to vote.

Bush could weaken Endangered Species Act

Hasn't enough damage been done already? Gah!

Received this via e-mail and thought it would be of general interest...

Just in time for Mother's Day, Senator John McCain opposed the Fair Pay Act — a bill that would help guarantee women equal pay for equal work. The bill simply would have restored critical anti-discrimination rules that the Supreme Court struck down in a recent decision, and failed by just three votes.

Adding insult to injury, McCain said that the solution to employment discrimination was for women to get more "education and training." Maybe that made some sense in his day, but today with women outnumbering men on college campuses, it makes none. Study after study has shown that women are paid less than men for the same work, even when they have the same education and training. Senator McCain and his Republican allies have chosen to stand in the way of enforcement of a law that's been on the books protecting women for 40 years.

Call on Senator McCain and Congress to pass the Fair Pay Act now.

Our friends at MomsRising will deliver this petition to Senator McCain with the media in tow, to make sure our message gets out. And if you're as incensed as we are by McCain's statement that women are somehow poorly educated and trained, you can do one more thing: Submit your resume when you sign the letter and we'll deliver that too, so Senator McCain can see for himself that women are actually quite educated nowadays.

A friend's friend has been posting good candidate profiles on his journal, I wanted to share. So far he's covered...
John McCain
Mitt Romney
Mike Huckabee
Rudy Giuliani
Ron Paul

A few sites people have shared which are useful in determining candidates' positions:
On the Issues
2 Decide
NYT Election Guide

And, my (slightly different) results on two match-the-candidate tests... ( Read more... )

I wish he'd run... but he seems to be busy...

SPEECH BY AL GORE ON THE ACCEPTANCE OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
DECEMBER 10, 2007
OSLO, NORWAY
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Saw an article in a printer's newsletter today about a Supreme Court decision that will affect us in a positive way. Apparently they've overturned an old antitrust law, with the result that manufacturers can now enforce, rather than merely suggest, retail prices. (I imagine that osewalrus has been following this already.) That's good for us because it should reduce the number of people undercutting our prices and stealing away customers we've worked with. But I wonder how it's going to affect discount chains and such. This should be interesting...