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gwydion* Treyvon Martin Update: The FBI is stepping in. Also there's more witnesses, including Treyvon's girlfriend who he called to tell about the creepy white guy following him. The murderer can be heard using unforgivable racist slurs on the 911 tape. The Florida police continue to claim that there is no evidence to contradict the murderer's statement. I notice that several of the witnesses are African American, so I'm guessing the racist cops, one of whom has an ugly history of his own on the public record, have decided to deliberately ignore the 911 tapes and the witness testimony because they think it's completely reasonable for a white man should drive around hunting unarmed black teenagers. I'm seeing plenty of evidence. I'm having trouble seeing how they could claim there is nothing to investigate here unless they are biased.
* The problem isn't just the Treyvon Martin case, or even with just Florida. These laws exist in sixteen states, where they have been repeatedly used to justify shooting unarmed people. It's just this time, there are witnesses and contradictions that make it more obvious to the average person that this is fucked up.
* I keep hearing Chris Rock chanting in my head, "It's all right because it's all white." *shudder*
* Illinois: Romney 49%, Santorum 35%, Paul 9%, Gingrich 8%. 98% of today's voters were white. I keep mentioning this because it points up all sorts of things about the modern republican party, especially when combined with Republican racially targeted voter suppression efforts. Anyway, Illinois allows people to vote for delegates independent of the candidates, so it's not clear what if any relationship there is between candidate preference votes and actual delegates.
* I missed the Missouri Caucuses over the weekend. I'm having trouble finding results, in part because the St. Charles County caucus was so violent it had to be shut down by police, and they don't know what they are going to do about those delegates and the ones from Liberty, where it was nearly as chaotic. Similarly, they keep switching delegates around in places like Wyoming and the Virgin Islands, so I'm giving up on delegate counts until the Republicans get their acts together.
* In Idaho, a State Senator is claiming women are lying about rape and incest, so they need not only a forced non-consensual vaginal probing, a second non-censual ultrasound, and Doctors need to interrogate the women to see if they are telling the truth. After all, the thing women who have been raped need most is harsh interrogation and a second, government ordered rape.
* Rick "frothy residue" Santorum wants you to know he doesn't care about unemployment rates. charming.
* Anyone surprised the Republicans are reneging on last summer's budget bill? Me neither.
* Since it got misposted over the weekend: Sanat found, "Queer Avengers attack media:" http://www.3news.co.nz/Transsexual-healing---Queer-Avengers-attack-media/tabid/423/articleID/246793/Default.aspx
* I accomplished next to nothing today except reading, really.
* Rewatching Ed Wood, I am fascinated by how well it captures some dos and don't of disclosure. As wrong as it likely is to encourage anyone to take advice from even the fictional version of Ed Wood, I still think the last disclosure with Cathy in the spook house was a pretty good way to go about it. The timing was excellent (after she got to know him, but before she's heavily invested in the relationship and before things got physical), and his cheerful matter of factness was an excellent tone to take.
Y'all know I'm big on early disclosure just generally. It's safer and saves everyone involved time and hurt, whether it's a gender thing, or a kink, or other relationship deal breakers that are less inherent. I love that disclosure, found family, and acceptance of various people's personal quirks, kinks, and issues are major motifs in that film.
* Happy equinox!
* "Hanoi: Now with photographic evidence:" http://lettersfromtitan.com/2012/03/18/hanoi-now-with-photographic-evidence/
* Vote for your favorite web comics: http://www.comicmix.com/news/2012/03/19/mix-march-madness-2012-webcomics-tournament-round-2-vote-now/
* The problem isn't just the Treyvon Martin case, or even with just Florida. These laws exist in sixteen states, where they have been repeatedly used to justify shooting unarmed people. It's just this time, there are witnesses and contradictions that make it more obvious to the average person that this is fucked up.
* I keep hearing Chris Rock chanting in my head, "It's all right because it's all white." *shudder*
* Illinois: Romney 49%, Santorum 35%, Paul 9%, Gingrich 8%. 98% of today's voters were white. I keep mentioning this because it points up all sorts of things about the modern republican party, especially when combined with Republican racially targeted voter suppression efforts. Anyway, Illinois allows people to vote for delegates independent of the candidates, so it's not clear what if any relationship there is between candidate preference votes and actual delegates.
* I missed the Missouri Caucuses over the weekend. I'm having trouble finding results, in part because the St. Charles County caucus was so violent it had to be shut down by police, and they don't know what they are going to do about those delegates and the ones from Liberty, where it was nearly as chaotic. Similarly, they keep switching delegates around in places like Wyoming and the Virgin Islands, so I'm giving up on delegate counts until the Republicans get their acts together.
* In Idaho, a State Senator is claiming women are lying about rape and incest, so they need not only a forced non-consensual vaginal probing, a second non-censual ultrasound, and Doctors need to interrogate the women to see if they are telling the truth. After all, the thing women who have been raped need most is harsh interrogation and a second, government ordered rape.
* Rick "frothy residue" Santorum wants you to know he doesn't care about unemployment rates. charming.
* Anyone surprised the Republicans are reneging on last summer's budget bill? Me neither.
* Since it got misposted over the weekend: Sanat found, "Queer Avengers attack media:" http://www.3news.co.nz/Transsexual-healing---Queer-Avengers-attack-media/tabid/423/articleID/246793/Default.aspx
* I accomplished next to nothing today except reading, really.
* Rewatching Ed Wood, I am fascinated by how well it captures some dos and don't of disclosure. As wrong as it likely is to encourage anyone to take advice from even the fictional version of Ed Wood, I still think the last disclosure with Cathy in the spook house was a pretty good way to go about it. The timing was excellent (after she got to know him, but before she's heavily invested in the relationship and before things got physical), and his cheerful matter of factness was an excellent tone to take.
Y'all know I'm big on early disclosure just generally. It's safer and saves everyone involved time and hurt, whether it's a gender thing, or a kink, or other relationship deal breakers that are less inherent. I love that disclosure, found family, and acceptance of various people's personal quirks, kinks, and issues are major motifs in that film.
* Happy equinox!
* "Hanoi: Now with photographic evidence:" http://lettersfromtitan.com/2012/03/18/hanoi-now-with-photographic-evidence/
* Vote for your favorite web comics: http://www.comicmix.com/news/2012/03/19/mix-march-madness-2012-webcomics-tournament-round-2-vote-now/