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Oh, Uncle Sam...

You gave me $600 today so I can "stimulate the economy" or something. Thanks.

I know you want me to spend it on baked goods or electronics or some such, but I plan to use it to replace the $600 you taxed me in 2006 for daring to give my then-unemployed partner health insurance through the domestic partner program at my office. To twist the knife a little, I plan to spend that $600 toward legal fees for power of attorney, medical power of attorney, and living will documents that give my same-sex partner and I a lot of the legal and tax benefits you deny us as gay citizens by not allowing us to legally marry.

So suck on that, Sam. You and your puritanical heterosexual hegemony can just suck it. (Yeah, that was pretty pretentious of me, but I don't really care.)

A librarian's worst nightmare?

Salon has an interesting article discussing Yahoo! Answers. I used Answers for the 1st time last week. I asked a simple question and got back two responses. The first one was from some choad who said, "I don't know! Never?" and the second was from a person who actually tried to answer my question. Neither gave me a definitive answer and Yahoo emailed me to tell me my question would be "closed" in two days, thereby unable to receive any "answers" (and I use that term lightly) after such time. I've received no other responses and really don't care if Yahoo shuts my question down.

Any system where users are rewarded for answering instead of rewarded for correctly answering is flawed. Plain and simple. Dear gods, if librarians pulled that shit at work, we'd all be out of a job!

The most retarded thing ever (besides Paris Hilton's wanting to spawn)

A British teacher has been convicted of "religious hatred" in the Sudan because she apparently let her students name a teddy bear Mohammed. Yes, you heard me right. She goes to jail for 2 weeks because she allowed a toy to be named Mohammed, but get this --- any Tom, Dick or Harry Islamist-Dude can name HIMSELF after the prophet, but if a woman names a bear "Mo", well, throw her in jail, then deport her!

Geez. And you wonder why organized religion is waning in popularity and meaning...

I'll also have you note the Sudan is the same country where genocide has been happening for the past few years and yet, the powers that be there have time to have a trial and then throw a teacher in jail because of a teddy bear's name. Wow. Talk about your fucked up priorities!

If only "reality" tv were more like reality