Peter Barber Gallagher-Sprigg explains the Prop 8 trial in two minutes…

Hat tip to Good As You, whose headline, “The monologue that reason8s in their heads at night,” is appropriately ingenious.

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I know lots of people say this. Some of them even do Google/Yahoo! searches on the phrase,
“land of the free because of the brave,” and end up here, likely due to the title of this blog — Site Meter says so. Apparently, they’re looking for a person to whom they should attribute that quotation.

But [...]

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C’mon, all y’all gotta know this one — even though it was actually Evelyn Beatrice Hall (a.k.a. Stephen G Tallentyre) who wrote these words, in The Friends of Voltaire, to describe what Voltaire believed vis-à-vis freedom of expression:
I disapprove of what you say,
but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

Now, most [...]

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What about all the companies that keep hiring people who’re here illegally?
They’re looking for cheap labor and to avoid regulations that protect workers, as well as all the taxes employers of legal workers must pay.
Meanwhile, lots of people seem to be attacking mostly poor, uneducated people who do things like pick fruit or dig [...]

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No, I’m not sayin’ Happy B’Day to Hitler! (Just a little trivia…)
What I am referring to is the other meaning of 420, or 4/20, or 4:20, or April 20th and how an Associated Press-CNBC poll on the medical and recreational use of marijuana was released today, April 20, 2010. (Y’all think that mighta been on [...]

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