http://www.circa75.com/ Circa75 en-us http://www.circa75.com/showArticle.php?article=344 gustav Friends, acquiantences, and strangers have assumed that I was an Obama supporter often enough that it's time for me to articulate why I'm not. 2008-06-05 17:12:24 http://www.circa75.com/showArticle.php?article=343 gustav MoveOn just endorsed Obama for president. I've got the same sinking feeling I had when it became clear that Kerry would be the democratic nominee. 2008-02-01 16:02:36 http://www.circa75.com/showArticle.php?article=342 gustav After upgrading to Leopard, PHP doesn't work. It took me a while to figure out why. 2008-02-01 15:39:10 http://www.circa75.com/showArticle.php?article=341 aaron On Thursday June 14th, the 40th anniversary week of Loving v Virginia, legislators in the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention voted (surprisingly) not to put a measure on the ballot that would have allowed straight people to vote to change the Constitution to make marriage discrimination against gays and lesbians legal. (Got that all?) I tried to visit my Representative, and saw a bit of a circus. 2007-06-15 18:20:31 http://www.circa75.com/showArticle.php?article=340 gustav I assumed it was common knowledge that Giuliani, Republican front-runner for the 2008 presidential nomination, had a long record of cross-dressing - but I was recently talking to a bunch of people who hadn't heard about this. 2007-06-11 22:09:16 http://www.pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=6FBB90B10F7FA89543341549EF2B3214?diaryId=6817 ''Get on your stomach or I'm gonna tase you!'" He asked them what he had done, but they wouldn't say. Instead, they asked him leading questions about other people they'd just arrested. "They said, 'so, who was in the white van you were associated with?" "I was like, white van? I don't know what you're talking about...."' 'I asked him if he had been read his rights. "No, they didn't read me my Miranda rights at all. ... They cuffed me, and when I complained to one one guy about the cuffs being too tight, he was like, 'Oh yeah? Well, let me tighten that up for you.'"' (from pamshouseblend.com) 2008-09-04 11:16:50 http://www.correntewire.com/fascism_in_mn Like I said, we all knew free speech was gone. Just a reminder that that includes freedom of assembly, too: 'Last night, members of the St. Paul police department and the Ramsey County sheriff’s department handcuffed, photographed and detained dozens of people meeting at a public venue to plan a demonstration, charging them with no crime other than "fire code violations," and early this morning, the Sheriff’s department sent teams of officers into at least four Minneapolis area homes where suspected protesters were staying.' (from correntewire.com) 2008-09-03 10:20:56 http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/09/01/protests/ We all knew that free speech was history. Now we find that the press gets arrested these days for trying to cover stories: 'Amy Goodman of Democracy Now -- the radio and TV broadcaster who has been a working journalist for close to 20 years -- was arrested on the street and charged with "conspiracy to riot." Audio of her arrest, which truly shocked and angered the crowd of observers, is here. I just attended a Press Conference with St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman and Police Chief John M. Harrington and -- after they boasted of how "restrained" their police actions were -- asked about the journalists and lawyers who had been detained and/or arrested both today and over the weekend. They said they wouldn't give any information about journalists who had been arrested today, though they said they believed that "one journalist" had been, and that she "was seemingly a participant in the riots, not simply a non-participant." I'll have video of the Press Conference posted shortly...' '...A photographer for Associated Press was also arrested today while covering the protests (h/t Edward Champion). An AP spokesman said of the arrest: "covering news is constitutionally protected, and photographers should not be detained for covering breaking news." Democratic strategist and CNN commentator Donna Brazile was hit by pepper spray on her way into the Xcel Center.' (from salon.com) Good thing we're so much better than the awful Chinese government, which trundled off all those people trying to ask questions about Tibet. Uh, wait a second... 2008-09-03 10:15:23 http://www.baywindows.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=glbt&sc2=news&sc3=&id=79561 'Fabio Brandao of Framingham pled not guilty to assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and civil rights violations in Boston Municipal Court today. The charges stem from his involvement in an apparent gay bashing in Boston’s South End in the early morning hours of Aug. 24.' Brandao was reportedly one of four men who drove by a group of four friends, shouted anti-gay slurs, then got out and attacked them. *sigh* (from baywindows.com) 2008-09-03 10:07:46 http://www.afterelton.com/TV/2008/8/nbcolympiccoverage 'When asked why at no point during the coverage did NBC mention [upset gold-medal-winner and only out gay man to compete] Mitcham was gay or that his partner was in the stands, Hughes said, "In virtually every case, we don’t discuss an athlete’s sexual orientation." 'When it was pointed out that in fact the network does exactly that by telling viewers about Olympic athletes’ various spouses, boyfriends, girlfriends, and even in one case a heterosexual “love triangle” Hughes responded, "Not in every case..."' (from afterelton.com) 2008-09-03 10:04:25