Imagine for a moment that some salesman offered you a deal.
They are willing to let you loan them money, and would only charge you a nominal fee plus a small rate of interest for the transaction.
In a sane world your answer would either be either, "Uh, no" or you would laugh in their face, depending on your mood at the time.
Pay to loan money?!? That's insane. Not just insane, illogical.
When last we encountered Gavin Grimm, Gloucester County Schools were still preventing the trans teen from using the boys room and the district had received the blessing of District Court Judge Robert Doumar in Norfolk.
Gavin's ACLU attorneys have asked an appeals court to replace Doumar, who denied his request for a preliminary injunction, because Doumar has made statements that he is "suspicious of modern medical science regarding gender identity." The lawyers say that Doumar has repeatedly referenced Gavin's "mental disorder" and accused him and them of just seeking publicity.
Yesterday the Department of Educations Office of the General Council and the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division filed a 40-page friend-of-the-court brief with the 4th US Circuit Court on behalf of Grimm.
GLAAD has released its yearly report analyzing the quantity and quality of LGBT character portrayals on television. Where We Are on TV 2015 found that of the 881 regular characters on broadcast primetime programming in the coming year, 35 are identified as LGB. That's 4%. Not one of the regular or recurring characters is transgender.
I guess that means we are not to expect Mrs. Hudson to pop up on Elementary this season.
The number of regular LGBT characters counted on cable increased from 64 to 84, while recurring characters increased from 41 to 58.
This evening's music features soul singer and songwriter Curtis Mayfield. Enjoy!
Curtis Mayfield - We Got to Have Peace
The Powell memorandum told the Republicans to go forth and use ownership of media and industry by the super-rich to change American popular culture from top to bottom — in order to put a stop to the social and political ferment of the Sixties and Seventies, crush the so-called counterculture, and try to make any revival of such developments impossible once and for all.
Diamond Williams was murdered in 2013, then dismembered and dumped in a field in North Philly.
Charles Sargent used a hatchet and screw driver to cut her up before throwing her away. He goes on trial next year for the murder.
Helen Ubiñas writes at philly.com that Diamond's journey at long last is nearing an end.
This evening's music features singer, guitarist and songwriter Memphis Minnie. Enjoy!
Memphis Minnie - Me And My Chauffeur Blues
What is the world coming to when a Wookiee can't drive down the street without being arrested?
Yes, that is a video of Chewbacca being arrested. And here he is in court.
This evening's music features Chicago blues guitarist, singer and songwriter Jimmy Rogers. Enjoy!
Jimmy Rogers w/Ronnie Earl & The Broadcasters - Shake Your Money Maker
I guess Fox News' resident transphobic Dr. Keith Ablow must have been busy elsewhere. In the wake of FRC's Tony Perkins suggestion that trans people in California will commit crimes in order to be sent to prison so that they can get the health care they deserve (and isn't that a shocking condemnation of our society all by itself?), Fox trotted out 'psychology expert' Gina Loudon to dish its special brand of transphobia.
Loudon, a tea party activist who became a reality star after she and her husband joined ABC’s Wife Swap (that's what I would want in a psychotherapist), insisted that it was “absolutely not” cruel and unusual punishment to withhold surgery from transgender inmates.
And the science is on my side of this. I’m not sure why the other side is deciding to be science deniers now. Johns Hopkins University ended their program because they realized that people who go through with the sex change surgery have a 20 fold increase in suicide rates as opposed to those who don’t.
Not true. Well, the fact that Dr, Paul McHugh closed down the Johns Hopkins University program is true...but the fact that he did so because of science is not. McHugh is an 'orthodox Catholic' who has spent his career peddling myths about gay and transgender people.
