So, for some reason no one has been able to explain, they’ve decided to launch another Spider-Man franchise exactly five years after the last one puttered around, dangled in our consciousness for exactly one summer, was deemed substandard, and went to live out the rest of its days in the $3.99 DVD bin at an FYE in some mall in Paramus, NJ. Continue reading
Daily Archives: February 7, 2012
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The British government rejected a request today to pardon renowned English mathematician, codebreaker, and computing innovator Alan Turing, who was convicted of gross indecency in 1952. The request for a pardon was initiated by scientists and mathematicians around the world as well as a publicly circulated petition to the government in London.
The online government petition, which was started last year, asked for a pardon that “may act as an apology to many of the other gay men, not as well known as Alan Turing, who were subjected to these laws.” It currently has close to 24,000 signatures. An earlier petition calling for a formal apology prompted then Prime Minister Gordon Brown to write such an apology on behalf of the British government in 2009. Continue reading
Today in a 2-1 decision, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals held that California’s ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. In a bold statement by the majority, the court stated: “Proposition 8 served no purpose, and had no effect, other than to lessen the status and human dignity of gays and lesbians in California.” The holding, though limited to California, is another big step towards recognizing equal rights for gays and lesbians in the country. Continue reading
After a turbulent week for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation which saw the charity threaten to withdraw future funding for Planned Parenthood’s breast cancer screening programs due to a right-wing based investigation that launched a probe at the urging of anti-abortion groups, and the subsequent mealy-mouthed reversal of their policy amid the backlash — now a top executive with the foundation has resigned under what can best be described as ideological differences, despite her claim otherwise, of the current trajectory of the foundation. Continue reading
You’ve done the home work, the affirmations, the congratulations, the adorations. You’ve stared clear-eyed and clear-headed in the mirror, you’ve told yourself that you’re good enough, you’re smart enough, and gosh darn it, people like you. And yet, you catch yourself telling yourself the same old negative story. What gives?
Today, I noticed an online news article about someone I went to high school with. We were more acquaintances than friends. I think we might have hung out socially once or twice in the four years I knew him. He’s someone who was on “the slow track” when we were in high school. Socially awkward, he sort of hung around the fringe of society. He was not in any honors classes, didn’t take part in any of the “bleeding edge” things our school was doing in the sciences, never stood in front of the student body to receive a varsity letter for his jacket, or any official award or commendation for that matter, and he certainly wasn’t in the “Who’s Who in American High Schools” book. Just a normal guy, did his time and got out. Continue reading
When the gworls enter the workroom, they read Alisa’s parting message on the mirror, and Jiggly says she feels as if she has a target on her back. Latrice tells LaShauwn that most of the gworls expected her to win the last challenge, and LaShauwn knows her shyness/lack of confidence is holding her back. Foreshadowing! Hit the jump to see what went down on Episode 2.
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The English national soccer football team yet again finds itself embroiled in drama right before a major tournament. And yet again, defender John Terry is the alleged cause. Continue reading
The 1980s was a huge decade for black women. Angela Davis made her first Vice Presidential run in 1980. In 1982, Alice Walker was the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for The Color Purple. Toni Morrison doubled down on the ass kicking when she won the Nobel Prize for literature later that year. On the opposite, but no less notable end of the achievement spectrum, Vanessa Williams was the first black woman to win the Miss America pageant, in 1984, and the first black woman to turn a public nudity and over-blown, puritanical rage incident into a hit record and successful acting career. Ah! The infancy of equality!
Returning to sports, one of the most notable people of this decade was groundbreaking, world champion, figure skater Debi Thomas. Continue reading
After this photo, the eagle shed a single tear. Continue reading