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I walk to BART every morning, and of late there’s been a man who stands on the corner near the station and as I go by he says “Good morning” in English and then in a lower voice he says something like “es muy bonita” in Spanish. The first day it happened I didn’t hear [...]

good friggin’ point

From feministe.us/blog:
So Rush Limbaugh was caught at the Palm Beach airport on the way back from the Dominican Republic with Viagra in his suitcase, for which he did not have a prescription (it was made out by his doctor to another doctor, probably to hide the fact that he’s using it). And while it’s fun [...]

but speaking of films I loved…

…well, I was over in the comments on a previous post, but I have to give props to the San Francisco Black Film Festival. It takes place each June just before Frameline, the larger and better publicized gay and lesbian film festival here in the city, but I’ve seen some terrific films at SFBFF, especially [...]

call me old-fashioned, but…

for a man who married his own daughter, why is this kind of marketing okay?

latest on Save The Internet

Here’s the latest from the Senate Commerce Committee, where a “mark-up” on several amendments to Senator Stevens’ Telecom Act began today at 10 a.m.: The Snowe-Dorgan Net Neutrality amendment will probably come before the Committee by mid-to-late afternoon. If successfully passed, the amendment would put Net Neutrality language into the massive Telecommunications Act. This [...]

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