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Check your freezers! Ground beef recall.

You can still help the fight for marriage equality in Maine. If you are a Maine resident, you need to vote. In fact, if there is a local election in your area today, please be sure to vote. These elections tend to have very low turn-out and its how extremists get weird referendums passed and anti-science people onto school boards. It's always good to vote.

What makes an American? Or, let's watch people be anti-immigrant racists about the guy who just won the New York City Marathon.

There's been another arrest in the Richmond gang rape.

Amazing environmentally friendly alternative to a converted van for those who use wheelchairs. Of course, it just seems to be in Europe right now, and the top speed is relatively low (so no going on a highway with this!) but it looks great for getting around a city.

Asperger's as a vanishing diagnosis.

This guy was almost Han Solo. Works for me. Check the smile.

Who you share a hotel with can be why cons are often unexpectedly funny.

Look, I saw this on 5251962's journal, and now you need to know too, just because: Bats have oral sex.

DAVID TENNANT, YOU LEFT DOCTOR WHO FOR THIS!?!?1?!!?!?!??

The things I learn on Twitter: there are lesbians on the 90210 retread.

hughcasey has an alert for the dino-obsessed!

Missing Sky Harbor baggage found.

Comments

[delchi.livejournal.com]

I don't get the runner story.

"Having immigrated to the United States at age 12, he is an American citizen"

I mean hello? He is a citizen. He immigrated legally. What's the issue?

Oh yeah, stupid people. :)

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Dude, if someone born in Hawaii has difficulties being accepted as American, so can someone born in Eritrea. Documents make no difference.

[delchi.livejournal.com]

I have a good friend of mine who is from Hawaii, and a DJ and I've never even given it a second thought.

I guess what I'm saying is I don't understand why anyone would not consider him an American citizen. I'm a mutant, I don't see things the way most people do. I don't look at a person and automatically assume that if the are not white anglo that they are not American. Just look at my friends ... they are from India , Finland , Canada ... all American citizens.

I don't get the insta-hate of brown. I do get the dislike for illegals, but you can't tell if someone is legal or not just by looking at them.

( unless they are carrying a sign that says ' I'm illegal and proud of it ' like some people did in Nevada during a protest )

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

I guess what I'm saying is I don't understand why anyone would not consider him an American citizen. I'm a mutant, I don't see things the way most people do. I don't look at a person and automatically assume that if the are not white anglo that they are not American. Just look at my friends ... they are from India , Finland , Canada ... all American citizens.

It beats me too, but then, I'm a New Yorker who lives in a smorgasbord of a city (NatGeo had a documentary on human origins, and apparently they got volunteers from one street in Queens to give DNA samples so they could track the mitochondrial history, and the net result was quite a significant chunk of their findings...)