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Monday, October 8, 2007 12:22 PM
Original article: How did the T get in LGBT?

This article is missing a significant point.

Whether or not the bill that can be got should be passed is something I struggle with. But I do understand the strategy.

However, this article is remiss in not mentioning a huge loophole in ENDA. The article only vaguely mentions gender identity but from what I understand, the exclusion of protections concerning gender identity means that a male employee can be fired for being too "feminine" or a female employee for being too "masculine." This is descrimination based on gender expression i.e. gender identity and may have nothing to do with actually being transgendered or transexual and could effect a large swath of the gay community or even people who are not gay at all. Yet the article implies that only a much narrower segment of the LGBT community would be effected by these exclusions.

Thursday, November 15, 2007 12:22 PM
Original article: Sexiest Man Living 2007

I Nominate Millhouse

Owen Wilson, Jon Hamm/Don Draper, brooding Dylan...Fine then, make me confront my sick fascination with the attractively haunted. I still miss Fox Mulder. Just last night I was watching Crowe in L.A. Confidential and sighing lustily.

The Simpson's hit this phenomenon square on the bowed-with-sorrow head on Sunday with 'Little Orphan Millie.' Millhouse thinks his parents are dead and suddenly becomes the hot brooding loner.

Summed up in Nelson Muntz's great line, "He's troubled! But I can save him!"

Wednesday, May 27, 2009 12:20 PM
Original article: How to pronounce Sotomayor

Cahuenga.

I'd like to see him pronounce Cahuenga in a "natural" English way. He knows everybody west of like Oklahoma is laughing at him, right?

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