A Moment of GLEE – We Are Young
i was struck by this during last week’s episode of GLEE httpv://youtu.be/b5AdLN9zfzk Here’s the original by the group “fun” httpv://youtu.be/FQLGhPHzxjc
Month: December 2011
Collect Tote Bags to Help Hungry Neighbors and Win Awesome Prizes (Like Penguins Tickets)
Hunger, as you probably have read here in the past, is very much a part of our lives … 1 in 7 people in Pennsylvania don’t know for sure where their next meal is coming from today. Look around you. Is it someone in your office? Someone living on your street? Some of the children […]
Santorum: LGBT Families “Destabilize” America
He’s at it again … Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum is on the presidential campaign trail in Iowa and his appeal to the heartland is laced with bigotry and intolerance, as well as a healthy dose of hypocrisy. On Weds, Dec 7, he was in Spencer, Iowa. He wants to maintain family structures among immigrants […]
Anti-Discrimination Movements and Economic Justice
A very interesting piece from Sunday’s Post-Gazette. Pranab Bardhan, economics professor at University of California Berkley, examines the intersection of movements for social equality with economic inequality. She basiscally says that movements pressing for social change must look at economic justice issues to be ultimately successful. This implies that anti-discrimination and egalitarian movements need to […]
Why Do People Respond to High Profile New Coverage on Poverty …
But help comes case by case from folks who still believe in stereotypes? Point in case. 60 Minutes did a pretty intense investigation on children of families living in their cars in Central Florida. More than 16 million children are now living in poverty and, for many of them, a proper home is elusive. Some […]
Lesbian Bashing on FourSquare
Hey, this is fun. I logged into FourSquare after a three month hiatus and found that someone had set up a new “venue” at my house … Hag Bag Headquarters “Welcome to whore ville all dykes get in free.” (sic … on so many levels.) Well, isn’t that nice? The Mayor of Hag Bag Headquarters […]
Parody of Rick Perry Video
This is just pretty amusing httpv://youtu.be/BbrI3F7p6-o
Rick Santorum: Eliminate Food Stamps b/c Obesity is The Hunger Problem
Ahem. This is offensive and ignorant on so many levels. It isn’t just a distasteful opinion, it is sheer distortion of factual information on the causes of hunger, the rates of hunger, the role of food stamps and the economy. How could you elect a President who doesn’t understand the association of poverty, employment and […]
Rick Perry Approves This Message Insulting Soldiers and Christians
httpv://youtu.be/0PAJNntoRgA “I’m not ashamed to admit that I’m a Christian, but you don’t need to be in the pew every Sunday to know there’s something wrong in this country when gays can serve openly in the military but our kids can’t openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school. As President, I’ll end Obama’s war on […]
Its Hard To Be a Gay
Dear Lord … try reading this story from the Post-Gazette about the battle between a dead woman’s wife and her parents for $41,000. It is like a Law & Order/Harry’s Law mashup, with a heavy dose of Vatican Court thrown in for good measure. This is where the battle over DOMA takes us … into […]