Homeland "Security" Inappropriately Targets Gay, Lesbian, and Environtmentally Concerned Americans for Intimidation and Harassment

Apologists for the United States' pathetic and deplorable slide into fascism [and especially for allowing the Bush-Cheney junta to get away with election fraud twice] would like to explain away this web page as the ramblings of a bigoted Alabaman whose internet user privileges need to be curtailed. The page was pulled down after a minor hubbub began to swirl around it on the web. [Of course, most corporate "news" outlets ignored the story until the existence of widely read independent bloggers made that impossible.] Ganymede's Ghost obtained the copy shown above from a Google cache after simply searching the Alabama Homeland Security URL for the word gay. It was the only hit despite the fact that they tried to remove it. Having just been singled out for antigay harassment by a homeland "security" associate myself [for the putative offences of wearing a belt and forgetting to remove my keys and iPod from my pockets at an airport checkpoint] over a thousand miles away from Alabama in the birthplace of our liberty, I suggest that this web page is indicative of a national policy directive that is not yet widely publicized.

The Opposite of Calamari

Swarms of giant squid have begun to congregate just offshore from LA, apparently waiting for the Big One to drop a human hors d'oeuvres tray.

Attention Contact Lens Wearers

An article in today's Old Gray Lady explains why your contact lenses may be bothering you. This eMedicine article explains what can happen if you ignore the infection and it becomes systemic.

Christoextremists Finally Right a Massive Injustice

The Bible is true–every single word–including the part about the dinosaurs fitting inside Noah's ark. If you need to see it for yourself to beleive it, go here. By the way, we are all descended from incestualizers.

Dick Cheney Is Full of Shit

Responding to a shortage of virgin unicorn blood, doctors seem to have discovered that pumping Dick Cheney full of shit has slowed the process believed to be turning him into a giant blood clot. We may all rejoice in the fact the process has been slowed down enough to allow him to continue the Bush-Cheney junta's assualt on the rule of law.

Wondering Whether to Buy Groceries or Gas this Month?

Don't forget you'll need some gas to get to the store and to transport your groceries home. MoveOn has a petition you can sign. They're lobbying Congress to end special tax breaks for Big Oil, pass antiprice-gouging legislation, and to ensure that existing antitrust laws are enforced and applied.

Not Quite Hell With the Lid Off Anymore

Either Dickens was wrong about Pittsburgh, or they've cleaned things up quite a bit since his last visit. Aside from the fact that we came here to visit a relative in the hospital, we had a very nice time. The Arbors B&B was clean, comfortable, situated in a beautiful location atop a hill overlooking a wooded ravine, and run by a very friendly and helpful innkeep. The Eagle is only a mile and a half away (five minutes by car, and they have THREE free parking lots; try to find that on one of the coasts). Last night's entertainment was a very entertaining, slightly postmodern drag show. The cover was $5, and top shelf drinks were less than $5.

Hands Up!

If you're not surprised to read that the guns used in nineteen recent Philadelphia murders were reintroduced into illicit circulation after being seized by Upper Darby Township cops. The Inky has the whole sordid story on today's online front page. The mentally challenged pigs apparently thought it would be a good idea to raise some petty cash by unloading the firearms they seized from local criminals at a local pawn shop [where the criminals could easily get them back after making a donation to a local Republican business man].