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Apple Fights Gay Marriage Ban
Hats off to Apple, and not for the usual reasons. From Apple Insider: Apple has joined Google in publicly opposing California’s Proposition 8, a measure intended to ban the rights of gay Californians to legally marry, and has contributed $100,000 to defeat the measure. Way to go, Apple (and Google)! From Apple’s own web site [...]
NMS 2008
During the final panel of a conference last year, a panelist tried to squeeze a 15-page paper into his allotted 20 minutes. He read so quickly, that I’m not sure what his paper was about. Therefore, I decided that I would never go to a conference and read a paper again. The following video is my presentation for the Norman Mailer Society Conference for 2008.
Register to Vote!
Get in there and get busy. Be sure you can vote in this historic election. You only have four days left here in GA.
I Can’t Keep Up
I can’t keep up with everything that’s going on. I’m in the middle of a couple of projects, so I really haven’t had time to write, not that anyone reads my blog anyway. Still, Palin is messing up again, and it has not escaped the media. Finally, the conservative, right-wing media is showing McCain’s running [...]
Free Levi
Bill Maher’s new rule: If we can’t, after all is said and done, make this election go the right way, at least we can save one man. I’m talking about young Master Levi Johnston. He’s the 18-year-old Alaskan hockey enthusiast who knocked up Sarah Palin’s daughter, and the National Enquirer describes him as “a boozing [...]
Legislate Gun on Campus?!
Are you kidding me, Georgia? Really? From Online Athens: Legislators looking to expand where Georgians can carry guns may take aim at university campuses. Carry a gun on or within 1,000 feet of any campus now and you could be charged with a felony, spend up to 10 years in prison and pay as much [...]