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Gay Weddings: Is There A New Etiquette?
Crop Circles: Biggest and Most Bizarre Designs — Scientist says they’ve been improved by lasers and GPS.
NASA going green with solar-powered Jupiter probe
Chinese teachers are on a U.S. mission — Dozens of teachers from China are in Los Angeles to prepare for the opportunity of a lifetime: a chance to teach Mandarin in American schools.
Vonnegut Banned – Again — As Vonnegut himself said years ago, If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own. There’s a lesson lost on Christianists and conservatives alike. The free exchange of ideas strengthens us and opens our minds — both of which are demonstrably antithetical to their worldview, especially when it comes to the deliberate miseducation of children as practiced by Republican dominated school boards and state boards of education across the country. It saddens me that our country comes back to this again and again. (Via @icowrich.)
Wake up GOP: Smashing system doesn’t fix it — Conservative David Frum on the GOP’s recent behavior.
Zakaria: Tea Party Tactics Immoral, Dictatorial — Conservatives are brilliant at enacting the tyranny of the minority.
?otD: Whom?
8/2/2011
Writing time yesterday: 0.0 hours (post-op recovery)
Body movement: 30 minutes stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 7.5 hours (solid)
Weight: 225.4
Currently reading: Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks
Posted: 5:58 am Tue August 02 2011 |
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Cora
August 2nd, 2011 at 10:43 amWhat struck me most about the gay wedding etiquette article is that the author felt it necessary to point out that the couple will mostly be paying for the wedding themselves. Because where I come, all couples regardless of orientation pay for their own weddings. Parents may chip in, but they aren’t expected to pay for the whole thing.