Friday, June 27th, 2008

Time	Event
6:10p	Amazing GOP hypocrisy Wow. The US Senate has a bill called S.J. Res 43, the Marriage Protection Amendment, that would amend the Constitution to bar same-sex marriage. First, there's the sheer chutzpah of the Republicans pushing a Constitutional amendment on a matter that should either be a matter of individual rights or states rights. (The Republicans are always the ones calling for matters to be left to the states, and oddly enough, they used to say that gay marriage was a states right issue. Of course, once some states started allowing gay marriage, they changed their tune.) Second, and the really special hypocrisy, is that this bill had 8 co-sponsors as of yesterday. Two of those co-sponsors? Louisiana Senator David "cheats on wife with hookers and calls hookers during House roll call votes" Vitter, and Idaho Senator Larry "Wide Stance", "I resign, I'm resigning later, I changed my mind and I'm not resigning" Craig. Special. Current Mood: astonished (Comment on this)
10:50p	Maybe Colbert has a point about bears..... Or at least, this guy in Colorado might agree. While riding his bike at 45 mph, he struck a bear. I particularly love this quote from the story: ""This bear looked at me with a look of terror on his face and sort of made a noise. I looked at him with a look of terror and we went, 'aaaahhhhh'," Egan said." Fortunately, man and bear appear to be in reasonably okay condition. :P Link to the UPI article.... (Comment on this)

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