Short entry, but I thought it warranted it’s own post. Slog has a great post up about the safety of gun-ownership. Check it out and check out all the studies that are linked. If you take nothing else, please, please take a gun safety course and keep your guns and ammo locked up. Too many people don’t.
And I’m back, with more fun stuff for you! First up, watch this trailer, I’m freaking excited for this:
VH1 is bringing back Pop-up Video, and has ordered 60 episodes. I might be even more excited about that.
This PSA ran during the season finale of Glee, and I really, really like it. I hope it’s effective (and I should work on that myself, I’ve gotten better, but it certainly pops out every now and then):
Speaking of Harry Potter (from my last post), what if he had an MBA, check out the gallery here:
One of my favorite blogs has a post up about the fake necessity of repeating something seven times before it is remembered. Go check it out. Enjoy the rage.
And here’s an awesome video involving ball pit balls and magnets:
F5 2011 RE:PLAY Film Festival. Inductance from Physalia Studio on Vimeo.
I’m a little behind, but here is a gallery of awesome signs from Borders:
Stephen Colbert takes on habitual liar (not intended to be a factual statement) Jon Kyl. Here’s a favorite, and here are the rest:
In case the embed code does not work below, go and watch John Lithgow perform an actual press release from Newt Gingrich. I will repeat, these are the words, verbatim, from an actual press release. How amazing!
And finally
Sometimes Commodore is really a greenhouse. The dirt and new pots were in the front seat…
Also, sometimes I forget to rotate the image and it’s stuck. Just go with it…
Quick update here, although I’m hoping to do some more updates that will show up later this week and next.
Lots of fun movies, lets start with this one, shared by my friend Kyle:
The Hobbit films finally have release dates and titles. I think it’s weird they’re using “There and Back Again” even though the story of the Hobbit (plus a bunch of extra stuff) is going to take two movies. But then again, I don’t really believe that these will stay as the release dates.
Here’s a fun movie to help you learn the 50 states:
This is all over the blogs this week, but prisoners overseas, instead of doing manual labor, are getting carpal tunnel farming gold which is then sold for real money. Weird.
Rachel Maddow has a great list of parody movies about the Republican presidential field.
If you’re not, you should be very excited about the upcoming Harry Potter movie. This will make the wait even longer:
And here is an amazing, amazing, cover, please listen:
And lastly, in really dorky news, here is the long-awaited update about the Myst movie, including what may be a new direction for the script.
That’s it, but there will be more soon!
Written: 05/22/2011
I guess this should not surprise me, but big corporations sometimes are horrible. And of course, it’s my own Insurance Company:
It’s abominable. The Tennessee Chamber of Commerce—chaired by Nissan, and whose other board members include such companies as Nissan, FedEx, AT&T, Comcast, DuPont, Pfizer, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Caterpillar, KPMG, Whirlpool, Embraer, Alcoa, and United HealthCare—actively lobbied for a religious right bill in the Tennessee legislature that would rescind Nashville’s civil rights protections for its gay and trans citizens, and which bans every city in Tennessee from passing any civil rights laws, for anyone, ever again.
Not only does United HealthCare provide crappy insurance with constant rate hikes, looks like they are actively involved in bigotry. Because equality might hamper profits apparently.
All my best,
The King of Spades
Written: 05/22/2011
Dan Savage responds to someone who goes apeshit over this ad playing during American Idol:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7skPnJOZYdA
First of all, this is a campaign about Google Chrome and the family of Google products. Let’s not forget that fact.
Here is Dan’s rebuttal: (emphasis his)
The Google Chrome/”It Gets Better” ad doesn’t promote or discuss or campaign for homosexual sex. It acknowledges the existence of LGBT people and LGBT kids and gives those LGBT kids hope for their futures. Acknowledging the existence of LGBT people does not raise awareness of the specifics of gay sex anymore than acknowledging the existence of heterosexuals raises awareness of the specifics of heterosexual sex. This is a popular argument among haters like Nance: Talking about gay people = talking about buttfucking! But talking about straight people ≠ talking about twatfucking. Because straight relationships are not defined by sex. Straight relationships are about love and commitment and family and big fancy weddings and Jesus! But gay people? We’re not about any of those things. We’re about buttfucking.
This reminds me of my previous posts about how many actions and items that heterosexuals don’t even realize they’re shoving their own sexuality in my face: pictures, stories of their children, date nights, etc.
If you haven’t, go read the previous post, where I link to Rob’s post on his blog about his boyfriend putting together a shelf in their kitchen. That’s about love and commitment, not buttfucking. The two posts work very well together, probably more than either one of them know.
All my best,
The King of Spades
Written: 05/22/2011
Once again, Rob has posted something that is so amazingly well written, so touching, that all I can do is link to it. His blog is always worth a read, and of course, this is no exception.
Also, points for the headlamp.
All my best,
The King of Spades
Written: 05/22/2011
I have a huge, huge post that’s been in the works for years about the hatred the hierarchy of the Catholic Church throws at the LGBT community. Note: And it continues to grow and is in need of so much editing, it will probably never see the light of day. It’s probably not the healthiest thing to keep a log of all their hatred, but everyone needs a hobby, right?
However, I’d like to point this out in a separate post, as the underlying lie is what the Boy Scouts also use to hide behind in denying membership to the LGBT community.
A study commissioned by U.S. Roman Catholic bishops concludes that neither the all-male celibate priesthood nor homosexuality caused the church’s sexual abuse crisis.
Gay men are no more likely to be pedophiles than heterosexual men. It amounts to slander to say otherwise.
By the way, the study concluded that the sex abuse crisis was caused by too much social change in the 60s and 70s. Which is a load of bullshit. Billions of people made it through those two decades without becoming raping pieces of shit. Slog comments:
I guess the takeaway here is this: Keep things on an even keel—not too much social change, not too quickly—or God’s representatives here on earth will rape your kids.
All my best,
The King of Spades
Written: 05/22/2011
Thank goodness I don’t live in Wisconsin. The governor, Walker, who does everything under the guise of “economic necessity” (see his union-stripping bill), is now trying to move through legislation that prevents gay couples from visiting their partners in the hospital.
It’s just another “right” that straight couples take for granted, and one that should not even be an issue. Ever.
All my best,
The King of Spades
Written: 05/22/2011
The Republican lawmaker who is a veteran gives an impassioned speech in support of marriage equality. His testimony is wonderful, please watch:
But once again, I’m remembered how tired I am, and how tired I am of the fact that any recognition, any right that I may have as a gay man, I have to fight to either have or keep. Why should anyone have to fight for their own basic civil rights, which are supposed to be guaranteed?
May, historically, sucks. It’s my busiest month, and this year it has been extra, extra shitty. So I’m tired. I know I’ve brought this up before, but I’m tired and fed up.
All my best,
The King of Spades
