Wanted to share this from my friends at the ACLU of Nevada: ACLU Calls on Nevada Equal Rights Commission to Protect Public School Students FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 15, 2012 CONTACT: Katrina Rogers, Legal Fellow: 702.366.1536×208 rogers@aclunv.org Staci Pratt, Legal Director: 702.366.1536×207 pratt@aclunv.org Las Vegas, NV – The American Civil Liberties Union…
Passing along the info on Project Red Dress (a very worth while cause): Sin Sity Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Host “Project Red Dress” Las Vegas, NV – What will your red dress look like?! It’s time to start planning your outfit for our largest fundraiser of the year! Will you search high and low in…
What’s that old Ice Cube song, “It Was a Good Day”? I think we progressives need an anthem for today because it was a good day! A federal appeals court has ruled that the Prop 8 ban on same-sex marriage in California is unconstitutional! This is awesome news and a big win in the fight…
Passing this on from The Center:
Whenever I’m sick I give myself license to watch whatever trashy TV I want. And since my toddler started daycare, well… I’ve had a lot of colds lately! And with all this bed rest, has come a lot more time in the world of reality TV. It’s my guilty pleasure! While watching Kourtney & Kim…
There is no denying that in these modern times, athletes are considered heroes and icons to thousands, sometimes millions, of people. Indeed, even compared to the idols we make of celebrities and musicians, athletes remain our anointed heroes. They often come with back stories that are the stuff of movies (sometimes literally) with tales of…
So Newt Gingrich ran away with the South Carolina Republican primary on Saturday and now he’s on everyone’s lips — including those of his ex-wives. Just two days after Newt’s second ex-wife Marianne Gingrich dropped the bombshell that her husband asked for an open marriage to carry on his affair with (now-wife) Callista. And per…
If you ever needed a good reason to buy Girl Scout cookies, here it is: Following an incident in which a transgender child was rebuked and turned away from a Denver troop last fall, Girl Scouts released a statement saying they were inclusive to any youth who present themselves as girls. Now, anti-LGBT forces are…
“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity,” Martin Luther King, Jr., from Strength to Love. Today is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and I am thinking about race, white privilege, and this quote. A lot. I blame The Help for putting a seed in my mind that I…
After months of working on this campaign to get the UFC to enact a code of conduct, I’ve decided to set up a page on this site just for campaign updates and to keep track of all the stories and history of what’s happened. But, as you’ll see, I got a bit emotional while writing…
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