Offered as a Public Service for Valentine’s Day
OK, it’s overly long and not all that great a song, but it’s kind of funny and it’s true — some sex toys are toxic and many are not regulated at all.
Day: February 11, 2009
Homeless Woman Handed the Mic at Obama Meeting
The extraordinary thing about this clip from Obama’s recent town hall in Florida is not his reaction to a homeless woman who wants, not a car or a park, but a kitchen and a bathroom for her family. No, the extraordinary thing is the fact that she was allowed in the room. Can you imagine someone like this being at a George W. Bush or John McCain or Sarah Palin — or any other Republican — event? And being on the front row? Could not happen.
Big ol’ h/t to Steve Schale.
California GOP Gov. Candidate Meg Whitman Says ‘Faith’ Drives Her Opposition to Gay Marriage
On Monday, former EBay CEO Meg Whitman, the one-time Mitt Romney supporter who was also on John McCain’s list of possible vice presidential candidates before he chose Sarah Palin, gave her first interview since she announced last week that she is running for California governor.
Opposition to gay marriage might not hurt her chances – but Whitman’s support of offshore drilling in California could be the kiss of death for her campaign
Asked by the reporter for the Los Angeles Times to defend her support of Proposition 8, the ballot initiative that repealed the right of gays to marry in the state, the New York transplant, who made her fortune in the gay-friendly Bay Area, said her opposition to gay marriage was a “matter of personal conscience and my faith.”
So is she a Mormon, a Catholic, an evangelical Protestant or an orthodox Jew?
No. She’s a Presbyterian.
While the Presbyterians are debating gay rights, and the church does not sanction gay unions, the church as not undergone the sort of upheaval that has roiled the usually stodgy Episcopal Church, where anti-gay schismatics have left the U.S. diocese to join the African Anglican church that advocates imprisoning gays.
Sorry. Just does not pass the smell test. Or rather, it stinks to high heaven of a purely tactical move to try to garner votes of GOP primary voters. Indeed, Whitman’s support of Proposition 8 was a surprise among her former employees and colleagues in the Silicon Valley, according to an article two months ago in Gawker’s Valleywag:
