On President Endorses States' Rights
Any ideas on what we should get upset at him about now? I'm going with "Overly commercial taste in hip hop."
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On Obama Still Hates Gay Marriage, No Matter What You Want to Think
@major disaster: This is probably the biggest point of all, and as a lawyer it drives me up the f*cking wall that people don't pay more attention to it. Whatever purity standard you feel you're entitled to hold Obama to will seem a hell of a lot less important when Ruth Bader Ginsburg decides to retire at 82 and President Romney nominates a 45-year-old arch-conservative to take her place, provide a fifth vote to overturn Roe v. Wade and Lawrence v. Texas, and decide that the Constitution forbids minimum wage or workplace safety laws.
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On Obama Still Hates Gay Marriage, No Matter What You Want to Think
@riggssm: So your solution is to vote for a guy (and don't try to pretend that sitting out because the President is insufficiently strongly liberal for you is anything other than an effective vote for Romney) who wants a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, wants to repeal Dodd-Frank and disband the CFPB, doesn't believe in climate change, wants to massively deregulate most industries and end funding for public transit, and repeal the health care act?
In other words, "This Tylenol is taking too long to make me feel better. Maybe I should shoot myself in the face."
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On Obama Still Hates Gay Marriage, No Matter What You Want to Think
@riggssm No, please don't. This bothers me no end: it's not between a lesser of two evils or the lesser of meh, it's between meh and evil. No matter what Romney advocated in 1994 when he was running against Ted Kennedy for Senate (at which time, remember, he also ran to the left of Kennedy on abortion rights), in recent years he's given money to the National Organization for Marriage, signed pledges to seek a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage and defend DOMA, and allowed his only openly gay staffer to be chased out of his campaign by conservatives. Obama may not personally support gay marriage, but he ended Don't Ask Don't Tell, has called for DOMA to be repealed (and refused to defend it in court), and has publicly opposed state constitutional amendments against gay marriage. The line that there's no difference between them is a lie being pushed by conservatives to distract from how hostile the Republican Party really is to gay rights. A half-step forward versus ten steps back doesn't seem like a hard choice to me.
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On Make $2000 Working from Home, Ask Me How (Spoiler: By Finding a Cat)
PS to Bebop: there's a thousand bucks in it for you if you come to me instead.
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On Customer Reviews For The Mother Casket From Costco.com, $949.00 (Plus Shipping And Handling)
In the annals of funeral service and product providers, that's about as non-freaky as it gets. Two days talking about my father's "cremains" made me think that the only humane thing for one's family is to be vaporized in space like that guy in _Sunshine_.
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On Okay, Help: What's Your Ideal Afternoon in Brooklyn for Tourists?
How are they getting around? If moving between neighborhoods by something other than foot or subway is an option, (1) Tanoreen for an early lunch, (2) cherry blossoms, (3) goddammitI'msopissedthattheydidtheKeithHaringshowafterImoved, (4) walk down to Beer Table for a late-afternoon pre-dinner drink, (5) Lucali for dinner. But Tanoreen in particular is definitely a bit of a schlep if you don't have a car and are coming from Manhattan.
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On What If Ron Paul Stopped Working and It Didn't Matter?
@Lockheed Ventura By the end of May 2008, Obama had missed 41.8% of Senate votes in the 110th Congress. Missing votes during a presidential campaign is common; functionally abdicating your role in Congress is not.
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On Where Do Liberals Say They'll Move Now if Obama Loses?
Melbourne. Great tram system, beautiful city, and sure they've got conservatives but they're _Australian_ conservatives, and it's not like anyone listens to Australia.
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On Cheese Meltable
@Setec Astrology: I want someone to answer your first question as well, because I want to buy these things, like, now, and the thought of flame-retardant fumes infused into my grilled cheese is about the only thing holding me back.
As to your second question, I'd thought that toaster ovens were the ones on the way out. A good toaster (we registered for this one and so got it for our wedding: http://www.amazon.com/KitchenAid-KMTT400OB-4-Slice-Toaster-Stainless/dp/B000CSRKKI/ref=sr_1_8 ) toasts faster and more evenly with less energy than a toaster oven. But yeah, the difficulty in making grilled cheeses is probably the biggest drawback.