Cultral Warfare Update - BREAKING NEWS

Hee hee hee hee breaking news! Seriously, though, I kinda am.

I have word from two sources (none linkable) that Microsoft has just announced that they have re-reversed themselves and will support anti-discrimination for GBLT-folk moving forward, and has specifically re-endorsed ENDA, the national Employee Non-Discrimination Act at the Federal level.

Details to come, I'm still working on today's news.

EDIT: Here's the press release. You can go read all about it there.

Today's Cultural Warfare Update

The Stranger's latest report on the Microsoft decision to drop support for anti-discrimination law (NOTE update below even after this one);

Another article on the Chesterfield County Council's "Judeo-Christian Only" prayer policy;

FDA about to pass rules banning gay men - even monogamous, married gay men - from sperm donation, rejecting risk-behaviour-based rules in favour of a broad ban;

Walgreens permits pharmacists to refuse birth control prescriptions;

Focus on the Family gets pissy that newspaper letter column editors have caught on to their "letter construction wizard" shtick and call for letters demanding that their bulk letter campaigns get printed anyway;

FotF article against sex ed class, includes action item;

FotF article claiming that a (failed) attempt to let other relatives be included in the Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act would "protect sexual predators";

Today's Focus on the Family talks about increased obscenity efforts from Atty. General Gonzales - PSYCH, it actually doesn't, another missing story included in the summary but not the actual report;

MICROSOFT REVERSES DECISION, RE-ENDORSES GBLT EMPLOYMENT PROTECTIONS, CITES EQUAL OPPORTUNITY AS A CORE BUSINESS NEED;

East Waynesville Baptist Church bans Kerry voters, Democrats;

Concerned Women for America praises the new Justice Department "Obscenity Prosecution Task Force";

CWA reports efforts to stop the Montgomery County sex-ed programme have been successful;

CWA praises IRS and Washington, DC for refusing joint filings from legally-married same-sex couples.

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Meanwhile, have a flower

Remember when I said that some of those peonies are farking huge?

I meant farking huge:


For reference, here is my tiny fist next to it:


In other news the Hitchhiker's Guide flick is not much; I like the visual designs, I like the riffs, and I liked it where it was like the radio show and where it was very different from the radio show. But where it was a condensed version of a scene from the radio, it didn't work very well, because sp much of the funny relied on the pacing and the language, and too much of that went away too often for it to work. Had they changed those sections either less or more, it would have been better. But, ah, well.

I really, really liked the movie's rendition of the radio show's musical theme. That was very nice. I wonder if I can buy it as a single track somewhere? Hm...

( Quizzic )