MOW

Via Joe. My. God.:

I unfortunately won't be in the country. But the March on Washington needed to happen:

Did You See This?

Via Slog:

Is Cheney trying to keep his hand in for some reason? He just won't go away. And to be honest, if he's going to say things like, "I think people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish, any kind of arrangement they wish," I don't mind so much if he does stick around. It's a message people, especially Republicans in the U.S. need to hear. The problem, as Andrew Sullivan points out, is he was a part of an administration that made strides against LGBT rights. 

The more serious problem is the Obama administration doesn't seem to be doing much to counteract what the previous administrations did against LGBT people. I know he doesn't want to make under-researched policy choices (like Clinton) and be forced to backpedal. But come on, there were campaign promises made to the LGBT community. People voted for him because of those promises. What do we have to show for it several months in?

Dear god, I hope Cheney doesn't start looking like a viable moderate candidate in the near future. Didn't we already have enough of the Dark Lord while he was Bush's V.P.?

Proposition Hate Upheald

Advocates of same-sex marriage in the United States suffered a blow today when the California Supreme Court ruled to uphold Proposition 8. According to a Los Angeles Times article:

The decision virtually ensures another fight at the ballot box over marriage rights for gays. Gay rights activists said they may ask voters to repeal the marriage ban as early as next year, and opponents have pledged to fight any such effort. Proposition 8 passed with 52% of the vote.

At least they had the human decency to leave the 18,000 marriages between same-sex couples that had been performed between May and November of 2008. Those lucky people won't have been surreptitiously divorced by the tyranny of the majority. 

I know the there's not much point in me weighing in on the U.S. political stuff. You've either already read it somewhere else or you don't care. But this just pisses me off. You would think Californians would know better. You would think that with the tide moving toward civil rights for LGBT people in the U.S. a state as generally forward-thinking as California would be on the forefront of this issue. 

A Sweet Little Fuck You

Via every blog I've read today:

I've got to start listening to more Lily Allen