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Why I’m Glad to Be in California, Reasons #639 and #640

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GLBT Contributions to be included in Textbooks

Two reasons that I am thrilled to be a resident (and native!) of California.

Recently I saw a cnn.com story about how the Golden State Dream was not so golden anymore. Poppycock!

Case in point, two great things have just happened, both of them evidence that California is progressive, is looking toward a future that is not all about enriching the rich at the expense of everybody else, etc. So I found this heartening.

Story #1: L.A. will increase construction of bike paths and lanes. A great way to add to the existing transport options mix. Sorry, those of you who can only see cars. You will be forced to share the road, to the benefit of all, believe me. You WILL get used to it, too!

Story #2: Notable GLBT figures will have their accomplishments covered in California history books. There really is nothing remarkable about this, as it should be just a no-brainer, but, oddly in 2011, it requires legislation in our culture. I congratulate the California assembly and look forward to Governor Brown’s signature on the law.

And for the asshat legislator from San Bernardino (Tim Donnelly) who was “deeply offended by this because he is a Christian,” I’ll just say as a Californian, I’m deeply offended because of your ignorance and narrow-mindedness. Hopefully, in the next election, your constituents will see you for the pathetic knuckle-dragger that you are and send you home. Where maybe you can read something.

And about that “homosexual agenda” thing. I want to know why, if there is indeed a homosexual agenda, why I have not been invited to any (not one!) agenda-setting meetings in my 50-plus years as a homosexual? (Is it a deodorant issue?)

I’m feeling left out.

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Dan Savage Slams CNN: Stop Giving Platform to Anti-Gay Bigots

Link to Daily Kos: Dan Savage Pwns CNN: Stop Giving Platform to Anti-Gay Bigots.

Dan Savage

Thank you Chrislove, for your DailyKos post.

I totally agree that it’s high time we draw attention to this issue and bring it to the forefront of media consciousness – I guess I mean “we” as the smaller media, blogosphere, facebook posters, the less-empowered voices out there, and eventually MSM will pick up on the trend.

One hopes.

Basically, Dan’s argument is this: The MSM media, including CNN, still presents anti-gay positions from bigots on the right as deserving of the same amount of equal time as those espousing equality.
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It’s as if these bigoted hate positions have a validity, the same kind of validity that in the past was granted to those who used religious texts, such as the Bible, to prop up slavery, then segregation of blacks, or justifications for things like restricted communities to keep out those Jewish Christkillers.

In our “enlightened” modern world, such viewpoints against blacks or Jews are unacceptable in responsible media discourse. (Naturally, there are still plenty of people who hold these opinions – now they just keep them to themselves.) What is still acceptable, though, is to present the anti-gay position as valid, even though it too is based on prejudice largely stemming from religion and religious texts.

You can always believe what you want to believe. However, in our country, in which there are no established religions, it’s wrong to use these selective, hoary opinions as the basis for an argument in favor of discrimination. Once again, just because you “hate” a group of people is not a valid reason to discriminate against them in a democracy.

People like the folks appearing in these videos (Maggie Gallagher, Tony Perkins) are particularly dangerous since they couch their hatred of gays in such reasonable sounding rhetoric. Please take the time to watch these videos and read the Kos post – and let’s start calling this out every time we see it.

Thanks again to Dan Savage for calling out CNN – on CNN!

More customers drop cable TV; is Internet or cost to blame? – USATODAY.com

Link to: More customers drop cable TV; is Internet or cost to blame? – USATODAY.com.

I think it’s both internet AND cost. Nice to see that I’m part of a trend – or not. I haven’t had television since I moved – I watch DVDs on the set, but no broadcast reception as I never got the converter box for digital. When I had cable – I usually just watched a couple of things – like Project Runway, certain HBO and Showtime series, some HGTV – but really, not much. Most of the time the set was off.

I don’t miss it, usually. Actually, I missed not having CNN or MSNBC on Tuesday for the election returns. But you know, between Huffington Post, the LA Times, the MSNBC website, and probably a few others, I was kept up-to-date without those annoying video loops.

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I also watch Netflix online, more and more as they make more and more of their content available. Who can resist immediate gratification? Once you’ve started doing it that way, the whole deal of the little red mailers and sleeves seems so cumbersome and inelegant.

Oh – and the other thing the story touches on – landlines vs. cell – gave up my landline years ago. If I need to fax something that can’t go straight through the computer, I just take it over to a local printshop.