It’s Gay Pride week…
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Congratulations to Dick Cheney… (Wow. That felt weird.)
… who finally got to see his daughter, Mary, wed
longtime partner, Heather Poe on Friday in Washington, D.C. The couple has two children, five and
two. In her autobiography where Mary
wrote of coming out to her parents, she said her father’s reaction was, “You’re
my daughter and I love you and just want you to be happy.” On Friday, the Cheneys issued this
statement: “… we are delighted that Mary
and Heather were able to take advantage of the opportunity to have their relationship
recognized.”
Fortunately, it wasn’t a shotgun wedding.
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Separated at birth…
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| Kenneth "30 Rock" |
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| Gov. John Lynch |
New Hampshire Governor John Lynch shot down two
Republican-passed bills this week. One,
pushed by the Tea Party contingent, those great believers in liberty, was yet
another “Voter I.D.” bill intended to suppress voter turnout in November among
groups known to vote overwhelmingly Democrat.
The next was far more clever. The
Republican-controlled legislature passed a bill that would legalize medical
marijuana dispensaries in the state, something I never thought I’d see the GOP
support. I guess they figure if they can’t restrict the
right to vote, maybe they can get voters stoned enough so they’ll stay home
munching down Sara Lee and listening to old Grateful Dead tunes. Nice try, guys.
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Mitt and Ann Romney’s horse qualified for the
Olympic dressage team…
I can’t help but wonder if Romney’s past
chairmanship of the 2002 U.S. Olympics might have had just a tiny bit of sway
with the judges, but no matter. It’s a
U.S. horse and I’ll be rooting for him.
And you can bet the often neglected sport of dressage will be
receiving a hell of a lot more media coverage this year than it has in past
Olympics. It will be interesting to see how Romney is
going to spin his participation in such an expensive sport with the “regular
guy” image he’s been trying to sell to the electorate. Maybe we’ll see photo ops of Mitt shoveling
shit instead of spouting it.
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Happy Anniversary Title IX…
The 40-year-old gender equality law stating that no
one should be barred from taking part in any education program or activity on
the basis of their sex was signed into law in 1972 by Richard Nixon, who would
be considered a socialist by today’s Republican standards. Can you even imagine trying to get this law
passed today?
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Finally, those mother fucking bullies on that mother fucking bus…
The big story of the week was the cruel taunting
of school bus monitor Karen Klein. Personally,
I couldn’t bear to watch the video. We
all know what nasty little bastards kids that age can be. It seems to me that putting a 68-year-old
grandmother in the position of bus monitor is like throwing a kitten in a tank
of piranhas. This is the dude they
should have had riding that bus.
