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A Letter to Amtrak Media Relations

A Letter to Amtrak Media Relations.

A Letter to Fayetteville, AR Mayor Lioneld Jordan

Dear Mayor Jordan,
I wanted to write and personally thank you for your support for Fayetteville Pride this year. I am from the Washington, DC area, where we have a long tradition of Pride festivities. Every year the same tired arguments agianst Pride are pulled out and dusted off. Every year we hear that we’re “pushing [...]

That About Sums It Up

An Oiled BP gas station sign pretty much sums up national and international opinion of BP at the moment.

A Hydrocarbon Chernobyl

In this clip from CNN.com, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar cites Chernobyl as a comparable disaster to the Deep Horizon spill. Who wants to bet that he’ll regret using that analogy?

Rekers’ Rentboy

If you’ve watched Leno, Colbert or some of the other late-night shows, you might have heard about the George Rekers scandal. As is true of all too many anti-gay religious bigots, George Rekers is a homosexual.

The pain of DADT in 137 words.

It’s about respect.

SGU? BJS!

What’s the best thing about Stargate Universe?

On iPads, Economics, Oral Sex, and Avatars

Twenty years later, I’ve begun to realize that concepts I once though esoteric or relegated to the far stretches of my imagination have a way of abruptly showing up in the real world.

Atheist

While I consider myself and Agnostic rather than an Atheist, I think this video defends my beliefs as well. Give it a look.

Bellus I

Have you ever just seen a person, or a picture of a person, and realized in an instant that you’d seen perfection? Well, that’s what this set of entries will be about.