The horror.... the horror ....

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happy jack wrote:

Guess who will not be asked to participate in the three-legged race at this year's LGBT picnic?

http://www.ivillage.com/cynthia-nixon-being-gay-choice-me/1-a-421332

Cynthia Nixon on Being Gay: "For Me, It Is a Choice"
The Sex and the City star, who has dated both men and women, draws criticism for her controversial remarks about homosexuality

Donna Kaufman ON Jan 23, 2012 at 3:08PM

As far as Cynthia Nixon is concerned, there's no wrong way to be gay. The Sex and the City actress began dating her girlfriend Christine Marinoni in 2004, following a 14-year relationship with English professor Danny Mozes, the father of her two oldest children. Though Nixon, 45, is an impassioned advocate for gay rights, she has caused some controversy in the gay community for believing that her sexual orientation is a choice.
"I gave a speech recently, an empowerment speech to a gay audience, and it included the line 'I've been straight and I've been gay, and gay is better,'" Nixon tells The New York Times. "And they tried to get me to change it, because they said it implies that homosexuality can be a choice. And for me, it is a choice. I understand that for many people it's not, but for me it's a choice, and you don't get to define my gayness for me."

Wouldn't that make her bisexual?

As far as whether or not it's a choice I'm going to borrow from the Paula Deen argument. Nobody, straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgendered is obligated whatsoever to answer to the public over who they love or why they feel the way they do.

It could be a choice for Cynthia Nixon, but it might not be for the next guy. I would also acknowledge the low success rate of conversion therapy.

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http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/08/10354257-cnn-suspends-commentator-roland-martin-over-beckham-ad-tweets

CNN suspends commentator Roland Martin over Beckham ad tweets

After apologizing for what he called a misunderstanding, Roland Martin is out at CNN.
The network announced Wednesday afternoon that the analyst would be suspended for the foreseeable future.
"Roland Martin's tweets were regrettable and offensive," reads the statement. "Language that demeans is inconsistent with the values and culture of our organization, and is not tolerated. We have been giving careful consideration to this matter, and Roland will not be appearing on our air for the time being."
Prompting all of the furor was Martin's Twitter commentary on Super Bowl commercials, particularly one about the underwear clad David Beckham (below).
"If a dude at your Super Bowl party is hyped about David Beckham's H&M underwear ad," he wrote, "smack the ish out of him!"

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Just what we need – another victim group.
How long until a Mister Softee truck driving through the neighborhood of a lactose-intolerant child becomes categorized as a hate crime?

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/04/02/park-slope-parents-wants-ice-cream-trucks-banned-to-avoid-testy-tantrums-from-tots/

Park Slope Parents Want Ice Cream Trucks Banned To Avoid Testy Tantrums From Tots

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Who doesn’t like the ice cream truck? Apparently some parents in Park Slope.
Dozens of recent comments on a Park Slope parents message blog said ice cream vendors need to leave the area, especially places around the playgrounds and parks, to help avoid afternoon meltdowns and temper tantrums from children craving frozen treats.
“Go somewhere else, go on another corner because…it does make it too tempting for them,” Debbie Markovic said Monday as her lactose-intolerant daughter begged for ice cream.

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This doesn't appear to be racial profiling to me. It looks more like - what's the word I'm looking for? - oh, yeah - law enforcement.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/06/tagblogsfindlawcom2012-celebrityjustice-idUS59773884520120406

Tyler Perry Pulled Over, Accuses White Cops of Racial Profiling via Facebook

By Andrew Chow, JD at FindLaw.com
Thu Apr 5, 2012 8:13pm EDT

Tyler Perry's April 1 Facebook post about police pulling him over was no April Fool's joke: The highest-paid man in entertainment is accusing a pair of white Atlanta police officers of racial profiling.
Four days later, Perry's post boasts more than 117,000 "likes," 21,000 comments, and 12,000 shares. Atlanta police have launched an internal investigation, E! News reports.
Perry's predicament began when he admittedly made a left turn from a far-right lane -- a trick his security detail taught him, to make sure he wasn't being followed, Perry explained on Facebook.
Two white Atlanta police officers pulled him over, but apparently did not realize they'd just stopped Tyler Perry.
When Perry explained his illegal turn was to make sure no one was tailing him, one officer allegedly asked, "Why do you think someone would be following you?" Perry said in his post.
Before Perry could answer, the second white officer started "banging" on his passenger's side window -- apparently taking issue with the window's tint, Perry told his fans.
As both officers "badgered" Perry about why he thought someone may be following him, Perry said he recalled his mother's advice:
"My mother would always say to me, 'if you get stopped by the police, especially if they are white policemen, you say 'yes sir' and 'no sir', and if they want to take you in, you go with them. Don't resist, you hear me? Don't make any quick moves, don't run, you just go.'"
But then a second police cruiser pulled up, and a black Atlanta policeman emerged. "He took one look at me and had that 'Oh No' look on his face," Perry recounted.
The black officer spoke "in a hushed tone" to the two white officers, Perry said. "After that, one of the officers stayed near his car while one came back, very apologetic."
Perry was released, but news reports do not indicate whether he was cited for his illegal left turn or tinted windows. Georgia law requires drivers to approach a left turn from "the extreme left-hand lane" of a multi-lane road, Georgia Public Broadcasting reports.
Georgia law also makes it a misdemeanor to tint driver's or passenger's side windows under certain conditions, according to the state's Department of Public Safety.
The Atlanta police department's Office of Professional Standards is looking into Tyler Perry's racial-profiling claims, E! News reports.

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My lawyer is a Muslim, handling my car accident quite brilliantly. She doesn't wear the burka, or whatever you call it.

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Mr. Franklin needs to get a life.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/14/fojol-bros-deny-racism-charges_n_1515281.html?ref=food&ir=Food

Fojol Brothers Food Truck Denies Racism Charge (UPDATED)

The Huffington Post | By Arin Greenwood Posted: 05/14/2012 4:23 pm Updated: 05/15/2012 11:17 am

WASHINGTON -- The letter starts "Dear Idiots." That's the friendliest part.
On Friday, disgruntled D.C. area resident Drew Franklin, posted an "Open Letter to the 'Fojol' Bro-dawgs" on Facebook.
The letter concerns the Fojol Brothers food truck, whose proprietors sell decently-reviewed Indian, Thai and Ethiopian food while wearing fake mustaches and brightly-colored turbans, and whose fictional "traveling culinary carnival" origin story has the Fojols coming from the country of "Merlindia" to "share their family traditions with the world."
These traditions are "over-the-top racist," Franklin wrote in his letter. The "brothers" themselves are "worthy ambassadors of poor taste" and "well-meaning (if woefully misguided) white boys with a contemptible sense of humor."
Edward Said's famous critique of Western depictions of Asian and Middle Eastern culture makes it into the letter, which ends, less academically, by suggesting that the truck owners "Find a new gimmick, or else please set that ugly tin wagon on fire and drive it into the Potomac. Dicks."
"I'm more worried about the Brussels sprouts going bad than this guy's comments," says Justin Vitarello, one of the food truck's owners, who in real life comes from D.C.'s Adams Morgan neighborhood.