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Blonde Password

During a recent password audit at our company, it was found that a blonde receptionist was using the following password:

“MickeyMinniePlutoHueyLouieDeweyDonaldGoofySacramento”

When asked why she had such a long password, she said she was told that it had to be at least 8 characters long and include at least one capital.

Let Them Advertise

Colbert King, and the established gay activists in DC, get it right on allowing offensive anti-same-sex-marriage ads on Metrobuses in DC. Free speech doesn’t extend only to speech we agree with.

Privilege is Privilege

A cogent answer to an ill-considered editorial on same-sex marriage and race.

Dramatic

Kurt Vonnegut explains why people have a need for so much drama in their life.

Link courtesy UrbanBohemian.

The Straw That Broke It

The Washington Post finally got me to cancel my subscription after publishing this little fluff piece on the head of the “National Organization for Marriage” moving to DC. One choice bit:

“I have gay people who are friends and family,” he says. “We can disagree on all sorts of things and still care about each other.” And later, “Of course, I have to take their arguments seriously. This issue is important. Ideas have consequences.”

Ah yes, the old “I have friends” like these people whom I’m actively working against. Because you really care about people when you want to deny them civil protections under the law. Right.

Nary a critical thought in the article, nothing illuminating on his organization’s goals, just a little fluff piece that makes his form of bigotry look oh-so-normal-and-rational. Thanks, Washington Post, I won’t miss having this crap delivered to my door.

The Triumph of Unreason

A well written editorial about the current state of the American “right”.

If Your Only Criticism Is Superficial

As Brian so aptly puts it, the joke still needs to be funny.

Right Wing Fraud

Orchestrated “grass-roots” intimidation of Congressmembers regarding health care reform.

A shame this can’t/won’t get prosecuted.

I appreciate the ready availability of urinals in urban areas.

I appreciate the clouds that rolled in and blocked the morning sun that’s been waking me at dawn each morning here in Oakland, even if I woke up at 6 a.m. anyway.