Random Musings

In the Color Me Not Surprised News, actor and singer, and Gomer Pyle of The Andy Griffith Show, Jim Nabors has come out as a gay man. Not exactly the biggest secret, you know. But, in the Pleasant Surprise News, is the fact that Nabors came out, to the world, because he married his longtime partner, Stan Cadwallader, in Seattle.Nabors released a statement to Hawaii News Now:"I'm 82 and he's in his 60s and so we've been together for...

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Fontana School District: Assault Weapons, Not Books

Out in California, the Fontana Unified School District Police Department—since when did school districts have their own police departments is an entirely different discussion--has purchased 14 AR-15 assault weapons in order to, they say, protect students from the threat of gun violence. They didn’t use the money to buy books, or computers, or give teachers more money, they bought weaponry.Olsen-Binks, Jones, WarrenDistrict Superintendent Cali...

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Architecture Wednesday: Budapest Loft

Okay, this isn't so much architecture as it is reinvention, interior architecture, and design, but this is exactly what I would want if I lived in an apartment: modern, Old World, eclectic, utilitarian .... cool. The concrete floors; the timber ceiling; the old brick walls; the great windows .... cool.It's over 2,000 square feet and on the market for a shade over $900,000....not including airfare. But, if it comes furnished as is, and they leave...

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Another One: Jadin Bell

Jadin Bell, an Oregon teenager, was another one of those kids, targeted for being gay, or perhaps just seeming to be gay—whatever that means—until he got to a point where he could no longer take it. So he went to the playground of Central Elementary School in La Grande, climbed to the top of a play structure, and hanged himself. A passerby saw his body and tried rescuing him; Jadin was taken to Portland and Doernbecher Children's Hospital where he...

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Pregnant As A Result Of Rape And Had An Abortion? You Could Go To Prison For That In New Mexico

Cathrynn Brown: The Face of CrazyEarlier today, we talked about the Sate of Crazy, aka Arizona, but now we’ll turn our attention to their neighbor, Friend In Crazy, aka New Mexico.A Republican lawmaker, and woman, state Representative Cathrynn Brown, introduced a new bill last week that would legally require victims of rape to carry their pregnancies to term in order to use the fetus as evidence for a sexual assault trial.Yes. You get raped, and...

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Arizona, Where Crazy Lives ....

I'd say it was a good thing I graduated high school back in the Dark Ages, because I was about to graduate, and lived in Arizona, well, I might not make it.We all know that Arizona has developed a penchant for political stances seem illegal, crazy, racist and discriminatory, but now they've added a whole new Plank to the state's Crazy Platform.A new bill has been introduced at the Legislature--proposed by a group of Republicans, of course--that would...

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The BSA Threatens to Kick Out Pack 442 For Supporting Gay Scouts .... The Pack Blinks .... Followed By An UPDATE

The Boy Scouts are all about building character; the kind of character that says if you’re gay you don’t count, you don’t fit in, you don’t matter. The kind of character that says if you want to practice tolerance, teach tolerance, even be tolerant, you cannot be part of the Boy Scouts of America.In Washington DC, the Boy Scouts council in charge of overseeing scout programs is threatening to kick out a Maryland troop for posting a statement on its...

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Another Day, Another Case Of Catholic Hypocrisy

Jeremy Stodghill, at the grave of his wife and sonsI sometimes think if you look up the word 'hypocrisy' in the dictionary, it will say, see: Catholic Church. I mean, we always hear the Pope and his minions talk about working for the poor while they sit on golden thrones in palaces and order Prada loafers by the crate. We hear them talk about protecting children, and then read about how they really protect pedophiles. They say they care for...

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Repost: Today's Birthdays .... Then The Sunday Funnies

Alan Cumming; actor, director, author, out gay manKeith Olbermann; journalist Mikhail Baryshnikov; ballet dancer Troy Donahue; actor, out gay manBobby Bland; musician Donna Reed; actressJerome Kern; Broadway composerLewis Carroll; authorWolfgang Amadeus Mozart; composerBob; blogger, snark expert, out gay man.Such illustrious company in which I find myself....And now, The Sunday Funnies.....

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