Here’s why he did it: Ordinance defied common sense, allowing men to use women’s bathroom/locker room for instance. That’s why I signed bipartisan bill to stop it — Pat McCrory (@PatMcCroryNC) March 24, 2016 … which kind of reminds me of when Edith Bunker of “All in The Family” couldn’t understand how a man could be in love with another … Read More
North Carolina General Assembly’s Horrible LGBT Discrimination Bill
A draft version of the bill that the legislature is set to consider during the special session confirmed the worst fears of the LGBT community and anyone remotely interested in civil liberties, or even municipal governance, in North Carolina: Speaker Tim Moore and the Republicans are going to destroy the ability of local governments to govern themselves. First reported by … Read More
Missing The Point
The award goes to Gersh Kuntzman of the New York Daily News for writing this: No disrespect to the jury in the Erin Andrews case, but I can’t breathe. The Fox Sports reporter just got a $55 million award for the pain and suffering of being videotaped naked in a Nashville hotel room in 2008. Fifty five million dollars because people … Read More
In A Few Decades*, Americans Will Laugh At This The Way We Laugh At Victorian-Era Magazines
You wouldn’t invite a stripper to your family Thanksgiving, would you? Because they might perform their act just as you start carving the bird. And if that’s true, then why would you let your gay grandson bring his “partner” to Thanksgiving? You might get gay juju on the stuffing. *I say “a few decades”, I hope “a few years”
Kim Davis Is A Footnote To The Same-Sex Marriage Victory
I’m on vacation, but I am not completely off the grid. I just have a higher bar (this week)n as to what interests me enough to blog about. Checking in, I see not much has changed. Trump is still testing the bounds of open bigotry. Ho hum. And I see that Kim Davis, who I wrote about last week, has … Read More
Failing The Bechdel Test
Know your memes, people. If you don’t know what the Bechdel Test is, this is how wikipedia describes its: The Bechdel test asks if a work of fiction features at least two women who talk to each other about something other than a man. The requirement that the two women must be named is sometimes added. The Bechdel test is … Read More
This Tweet Poses An Interesting Question Re: Ashley Madison
The Ashley Madison hacked data is now searchable online. Will you look for your spouse? https://t.co/WcWvsPOLbT — AJ+ (@ajplus) August 20, 2015 The problem of course is…. what if you are able to search the database, and you find your spouse, knowing that there are millions of fraudulent accounts there? I guess it warrants a conversation, at a minimum, with … Read More
Ashley Madison Claims Its First “Celebrity” Victim
I’m not going to say who it was, although it is someone already “disgraced”. And I put “celebrity” in quotes, because this guy is more of a reality show star, than an actual celebrity. There is a certain schadenfreude at this “family values” guy being revealed as someone who cheats on his wife through Ashley Madison, but I think the … Read More
Ashley Madison Hackers Release Names
The Impact Team, the name of the group that hacked the Ashley Madison website (a site owned by Avid Life Media), has released the names, addresses and phone numbers — as well as a four-digit code that could be either partial credit card numbers or just user numbers — of the 37 million users of the cheat-on-your-spouse website. But don’t rush to a website … Read More
On The Ashley Madison Hack
So, a few days ago, the website Ashley Madison was hacked and its 37 million customers could soon have their data leaked online by a crew calling themselves The Impact Team. Ashley Madison, for the uninitiated, is a site that lets spouses cheat on their partners — kind of like a match.com for adulterers. The Impact Team has threatened to release a … Read More
Gawker Is Imploding
More fallout from this debacle: Tommy Craggs, the executive editor of Gawker Media, and Max Read, the editor-in-chief of Gawker.com, are resigning from the company. In letters sent today, Craggs and Read informed staff members that the managing partnership’s vote to remove a controversial post about the CFO of Condé Nast—a unprecedented act endorsed by zero editorial employees—represented an indefensible … Read More
Gawker Does The Right Thing . . . Too Little, Too Late Though
I was going to write about a certain story, but I didn’t want to promote it. Basically, the Gawker news site put a story up online about a certain person you have never heard. And it doesn’t matter who it is. But he is the brother of someone in Obama’s cabinet, and the CFO of a major publishing company. And … Read More
Roof’s Sister Asks For Donations
From a Charlotte TV station: The sister of the suspected Charleston church shooter, Dylann Roof, is asking the public for donations — but not for her brother. In a “Go Fund Me” post, Amber Roof is asking for $5,000 to pay for her and her fiance’s wedding, which was originally scheduled for June 21. They canceled the wedding after her … Read More