Category Archives: crossposted on TADA

Open Thread and Link Farm: Secret Gender Pole Dancer Edition

Post it! Whatever it is! If you like it, post it! Self-link! Self-love! Self-self! Parents keep child’s gender secret. Arizona Cops Shoot Former Marine In Botched Pot Raid. There’s a collective irrationality in our country that I don’t understand. This … Continue reading

Posted in crossposted on TADA, Link farms | 82 Comments

With Thanks to Liz Wallace.

[This post is by Kip Manley, and cross-posted from his blog Long Story; Short Pier with his kind permission.] The crew is unisex and all parts are interchangeable for men or women. —Dan O’Bannon, Alien (née Starbeast) FOOM! FOOM! FOOM! … Continue reading

Posted in crossposted on TADA, Feminism, sexism, etc, Popular (and unpopular) culture | 17 Comments

Why A Power Of Attorney Is No Substitute For Marriage When A Loved One Is In The Hospital

In comments, On Lawn wrote: Laws don’t regulate who can and who can’t be visited by their beloved, hospitals do. That’s a nice theory, but not how it works in real life. Hospitals can to a significant degree be regulated … Continue reading

Posted in crossposted on TADA, Same-Sex Marriage | 64 Comments

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker Refuses To Defend LGBT Rights Law

Gov. Scott Walker believes a new law that gives gay couples hospital visitation rights violates the state constitution and has asked a judge to allow the state to stop defending it. Democrats who controlled the Legislature in 2009 changed the … Continue reading

Posted in crossposted on TADA, Same-Sex Marriage | 59 Comments

And the winner of the 2010 Nebula Award for Best Novella…

Rachel Swirsky!! Rachel Swirksy!!!!! That’s right, Rachel Swirksy!!!!!!!!!!!! Rachel (known in these parts as Mandolin) just won the Nebula Award for her novella “The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen’s Window.” Let me mention that the competition in … Continue reading

Posted in crossposted on TADA, Mandolin's fiction & poems | 24 Comments

K&S Followup: K&S Never Accepted DOMA As A Client, Lawyers Claim

[Crossposted at Family Scholars Blog] Two weeks ago, I blogged about King & Spalding’s decision not to defend DOMA. In comments at my blog, Mythago wrote: You’re treating this as a situation where K&S agreed with the House of Representatives … Continue reading

Posted in crossposted on TADA, Same-Sex Marriage | 10 Comments

Open thread and link farm: Harry Clarke can draw edition

Post what you like, when you like, with whomever you like. Self-linking is awesome. Check out this gallery of stunning Poe illustrations by Harry Clarke. Texas Cheerleader Who Was Assaulted Never Had A Chance. The dark side of “Friday Night … Continue reading

Posted in crossposted on TADA, Link farms | 36 Comments

Computer Decides That The 4th Circuit Will Decide In Favor Of Individual Mandate

In other news, a computer’s random selection of judges — two Obama appointees and a Clinton appointee — has pretty much guaranteed that the 4th circuit court will say that the individual mandate is constitutional. (Our judiciary is now so … Continue reading

Posted in crossposted on TADA, Health Care and Related Issues, In the news | 45 Comments

King & Spalding’s Decision to Renege On Defending DOMA

Former Bush Solicitor General Paul Clement, a partner at the law firm King and Spalding, was contracted by the House of Representatives to defend DOMA (the Defense of Marriage Act) in court. A few days later, K&S dropped the case. … Continue reading

Posted in crossposted on TADA, Free speech, censorship, copyright law, etc., In the news, Same-Sex Marriage | 49 Comments

Would Robert George Recognize a Trans-Cis Marriage?

[Crossposted on Family Scholars Blog.] According to Robert George et al, the reason same-sex couples can’t marry is that they’re unable to perform “conjungal acts” or “coitus”: The spouses seal (consummate)  and renew their union by conjungal acts – acts that constitute … Continue reading

Posted in crossposted on TADA, Same-Sex Marriage, Transsexual and Transgender related issues | 13 Comments