equality,
gay
3:52 PM
ATTENTION: As you must know after all their exhausting, unfunny, Is-that-Ed-Begley-Jr.-rife advertising, the Census is this year. Many of you have gotten your census forms already.
While claiming to create an accurate picture of the diversity of America's population, this year's census does not include any questions relating to resident's sexual orientation. This means that the number of LGBT individuals in the US can continue to be misrepresented, and important LGBT issues could be passed over or not considered based on absent statistics.
Queer The Census is looking to help. It is offering FREE STICKERS to place on your census envelope that request the census include a question on sexual orientation on future census forms, and provides a check box question for the resident to tell the census what his or her sexual orientation is.
This is not only for LGBT individuals! Straight friends, please voice your concern and request a (FREE) sticker. There is a "straight" option included on the sticker, just for you.
blog,
food,
recipes
1:44 PM
TasteSpotting: A "potluck" website, featuring pictures of gut-achingly delicious looking food items with the recipe a click away. Hundreds of recipes, each with a featured picture so you can let you get good and hungry looking at all you can make.
Also, it's SEARCHABLE. Droolicious.
narwhal,
tumblog,
unicorn,
weird
12:07 PM
The epic randomness of this Unicorn/Narwal Love Tumblog is so epic and random that I might dare call it...promiscuous?
alcohol,
candy,
experiment
11:53 AM
Vodka makes me want to heave like Kate Moss after a grape, but some of you seem to like this stanky drink. Therein, I direct you to this "How to Make Skittle-Flavored Vodka" Tutorial. I think the flasks are pretty neat, too.
games,
muppets,
twilight
11:17 AM
Forget March Madness - It's Muppet Madness season. Everyone should fill out a bracket.
I believe the most exciting first round match-up is Burt & Ernie v. The Count. I give it to the
Count purely because of THIS GLORIOUS PICTURE.
articles,
equality,
gay,
religion
11:05 AM
Portraying Lesbian Parents:
From the article: Nicole S. let us know about an image used by the Florida Family Policy Council in a message about a judge’s ruling to allow a lesbian couple to adopt a relative’s child they had been fostering. The FFPC, which opposes gay adoption, sent out an alert to its members and including an image of the couple…well, in theory. On the left is the photo included with the alert; on the right is a photo of the actual couple:
Follow the link for the article author's commentary.
books,
old timey
10:46 AM
Key terms illustrated in The Art of Manliness: Classic Skills and Manners for the Modern Man:
Bone Box. The mouth. Shut your bone box; shut your mouth.
Draw the Long Bow. To tell extravagant stories, to exaggerate overmuch; same as “throw the hatchet.” From the extremely wonderful stories which used to be told of the Norman archers, and more subsequently of Indians’ skill with the tomahawk.
Firing A Gun. Introducing a story by head and shoulders. A man, wanting to tell a particular story, said to the company, “Hark; did you not hear a gun?—but now we are talking of a gun, I will tell you the story of one.”
Hogmagundy. The process by which the population is increased.
Rumbumptious. Haughty, pugilistic.
Sneeze-lurker. A thief who throws snuff in a person’s face, and then robs him.
