A Big Oops. Election Results Leaked Early

This breaking news from ONN. Diebold has accidentally let slip the results of the 2008 election. I hope this leak won't ruin the election fun.


Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early

Secrets of the Writers' Strike

My TV writer pal Andy posted this exposé about the WGA strike. Wanna know what really happened? How the will of the striking writers was finally broken? Those nefarious studios deployed their ultimate weapon to combat the writers: D-girls.

History. Bizarre Religions. American Experience.

The Mormons

I spent way too much time today watching this great PBS documentary on the history of Mormons. Since I was a kid I've always been fascinated with myths and stories from around the world. This one's a whopper, and it's from our own back yard.

Before I moved to California the only Mormons I'd ever heard of were Donnie and Marie. American Experience and Frontline collaborated on this really long documentary that covers the beginnings with Joseph Smith all the way up to current controversies over the Mormons' practice of baptizing Holocaust victims.

Seeing all those smiling, squeaky clean Mormon families all "sealed" together made me feel sorry for the poor gay children and closeted parents who can't escape the suffocating confines of their world. it's not the kind of religion that inspires people to question authority.

Anyway, if you like American history and kooky religions, this would be good time spent.

More Obama-mania

I found this link on Huffington Post. Senator Obama sits down with the editorial board of the San Francisco Chronicle to talk about policy. I feel myself getting more enthusiastic about the man; at the same time I'm worried about all the talk of bipartisanship and "coming together." After all these years of Republicans politicizing everything and ruining the country, I just don't know if I'm eager to have a president who wants to work WITH them on anything. What does that mean? President Clinton worked with them to the disadvantage of gay people and poor people. I hope it's not that kind of bipartisanship.

Happy Darwin Day!

Check out the Darwin Day cards posted on the Dawkins Foundation Web site.

http://richarddawkins.net/article,2251,Feb-12th-Happy-Darwin-Day,RichardDawkinsnet

Ironically, Mr. Darwin was born on the same day as Abraham Lincoln. 

Spring and the Strike break together

Mother Nature and the Writer's Guild are working together to bring about change in Los Angeles today. The frigid, wet, windy weather we've had since December broke out into a cloudless 80 degrees and sunshine. At the same moment the WGA is meeting with their members to iron out the end of the strike that has everyone's panties in a twist. I can feel the city about to exhale.

I see trees budding everywhere, and some ambitious ones have already exploded bright pink. They're probably embarrassed at their own enthusiasm.

Alas, we won't be beaming up to the International Bear Rendezvous next week. It always pleased me to sit in the lobby of the host hotel and watch the big, ear-to-ear smiles as bears from far off places walk in the door. Suddenly they find themselves in a world where they are the norm. It's almost like discovering the gay world for the first time.

Perhaps if things work out we'll go to our first Lazy Bear Weekend this summer, or the Bear St. fair up in SF before the year is over.