Despite all the attention paid to Valentine’s Day, there is another holiday today to be celebrated: International Quirkyalone Day! It’s a day to celebrate being single by choice and being quirky, being different than society wants us to be, breaking all the rules. So, enjoy being single on this day of forced coupledom! (And if you’re coupled, you can be quirkytogether, not a merging of the two people but a supportive relationship that allows each of you to be your own quirky self. You can celebrate that today as well! Just forget about those roses and chocolates and come up … Continue reading »
Feb 122009
On my way to work this morning, I realized that our morning rituals would probably look rather absurd to the uninitiated. There we are, by the hundreds, stuffed into these strange, weird metal boxes on wheels that take us from one spot to another only to throw us out at the end. I take an express bus, so it seems like it’s throwing up people at the first stop in the downtown area. Almost everybody leaves the bus at that stop. Then everybody hurries places not looking much around. So busy with nothing that they don’t even notice a world … Continue reading »
Feb 052009
While the Defense of Marriage Act – that heteronormative and sexist monstrosity that limits marriage and marriage-like unions artificially – might fall soon because the current administration does not support it anymore, it is good to see some judges questioning its constitutionality. In two cases, judges in the 9th circuit court of appeals ruled that denying same-sex spouses benefits using DOMA is unconstitutional (here is the legal journal that reported on this; a summary not requiring a subscription is here). Here is more on the ruling and its implications from the LA Times.
Feb 042009
As I am reading the latest newsletter from NCSE – exposing “Expelled” for the sham it is – I find it even more important that us “Darwinists” show our numbers. We can do that by participating in the Happy Birthday, Darwin campaign. So wander on over to that site and sign up. The goal is to get 200,000 people by Darwin Day!
Feb 012009
According to the Telegraph, marriages are up in Britain. Way up. “Register offices and churches have reported a rise in marriages and civil partnerships since the onset of the economic downturn.” Experts say that this is because people are looking for stability. They are citing one expert later in the article. Professor Cary Cooper, a social scientist at Lancaster University, said: “The increase in marriages makes sense. If you’re feeling insecure, as people are now, then you are going to want to try to bring some stability to their lives. “During a period of economic growth, when you have a … Continue reading »
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