In Noah's a few minutes ago, an employee beckoned to two customers to approach the counter. He had bad news for them: the chocolate chip bagels they had ordered were temporarily out of stock.
California Supreme Court does the right thing.
State Supreme Court says same-sex couples have right to marry(05-15) 10:24 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- Gays and lesbians have a constitutional right to marry in California, the state Supreme Court said today in a historic ruling that could be repudiated by the voters in November.
In a 4-3 decision, the justices said the state's ban on same-sex marriage violates the "fundamental constitutional right to form a family relationship." The ruling is likely to flood county courthouses with applications from couples newly eligible to marry when the decision takes effect in 30 days.
The full text of the ruling is available here.
(I'm hardly unbiased on this one - Terry Stewart is a family friend who argued on behalf of the City of San Francisco against the marriage ban, and my dad's law firm did some pro bono work on the case)
Presenting my Muxtape mix. Quite a random assortment of songs; I'll probably change it.
12 songs, 45:18 minutes
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Finn Brothers - Eyes of the World
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Just Ice - Gangster of Hip-Hop Part 1
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Les Rita Mitsouko - Marcia Baila (English/French extended version)
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Kirsty MacColl - Free World
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Lee Fields - Let's Get A Groove On
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Chantay Savage - If You Believe (from Party Girl)
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Paul Simon - The Obvious Child (Remastered Album Version)
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Manu Chao - J'ai Besoin De La Lune
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Patti LuPone - I Like to Fuss
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Danielle Dax - Big Hollow Man
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Spoon - Don't Make Me a Target
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Belle and Sebastian - Legal Man
I finally bit the bullet and boxed/bagged up our VHS tape collection. Our VCR is disconnected and even before that happened, we weren't actually watching our tapes.
In memoriam...
Movies we had on tape
Mighty Aphrodite
The Fifth Element
Shirley Valentine
Star Wars: A New Hope
Say Anything
Legally Blonde
South Park
Being John Malkovich
Mystic Pizza
Clueless
Pulp Fiction
Slacker
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
When Harry Met Sally
Lawrence of Arablie
Akira
Like Water for Chocolate
Tales of the City
Say Anything
Toy Story
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Mulan
Red Dwarf
Monty Python's Flying Circus
The Godfather (Widescreen Edition)
The Graduate
High Fidelity
Singles
The Mind's Eye
Beloxi Blues
The Usual Suspects
Bowfinger
Goldmember
Truly Madly Deeply
Waynes World
Breakfast at Tiffany's
To Play the King
American Pie
Devil Hunter Yohko 2,3 & 4-Ever
Fawlty Towers
BioHunter
Buena Vista Social Club
Ren & Stimpy Show vol 1
Absolutely Fabulous Series 2
An Affair to Remember
Company - Original Cast Album Documentary
The Wedding Singer
Five Corners
Go
Next Stop Wonderland
The Full Monty
Supercop
All About My Mother
200 Cigarettes
Shrek
History of the World Part 1
Casino Royale
Eyes on the Prize
Sex and the City
Boogie Nights
My Cousin Vinnie
Austin Powers International Man of Mystery
Army of Darkness
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
Darkman
Pee-Wee's Playhouse
Parliament Funkadelic: One Nation Under a Groove
Total Recall
Pride and Prejudice (miniseries)
Real Genius
Time Bandits
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Addams Family Values
The Critic
The Godfather Part II
Healthy Bread Baking (must have come with the breadmaker, another sore subject)
Being John Malkovich
Wizard of Oz
Sidekicks
POV: Blacks and Jews
Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers
Independent Lens: The Political Dr. Seuss
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
An episode of "24"
The Tick
But I cannot get rid of: My Fast Show tapes (maybe I'll buy that 7-DVD set from the UK?)
But when I saw this article about how a private school has temporarily shut down because of a whooping cough outbreak, all I could think is "See? THIS IS WHY YOU SHOULD VACCINATE YOUR CHILDREN, YOU IDIOTS!"
The school has an "unusually high number of children" who have not been vaccinated against whooping cough, which is also known as pertussis, health officials said. California law allows parents not to have their children immunized against the sickness.
How many of those parents were thinking "Oh, we go to a GOOD school, we won't be around germs?" Think maybe they'll reconsider their stance?
but I just couldn't resist this one. (I actually particularly like the last 5 seconds)
Can this be as good as it sounds? An add-on for your conventional car that converts it to a hybrid for less than $4,000?
I'm still waiting for my hybrid station wagon, though!
Stupid Newsweek stupid magazine cover STUPID.
Argh.
OK... attempting to be more coherent. "Obama's Bubba Gap"? Arugula vs. beer? Must they promote the Clinton and Rove talking points so enthusiastically?
And speaking of the latter... ew.
Yeah. This "elitist" voted for "Bubba" in 2002 and 2006... bleh.Former President Bill Clinton was in West Virginia on his wife's behalf. In Clarksburg, he called her a scrapper and contrasted her appeal among working-class voters with the elitists he said support Obama.
"The great divide in this country is not by race or even income, it's by those who think they are better than everyone else and think they should play by a different set of rules," he said. "In West Virginia and Arkansas, we know that when we see it."
