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Department of Irony: Green energy in L.A. will hurt the environment

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

Sometimes green priorities are mutually exclusive, as in Los Angeles, where a power transmission line that could bring clean, renewable energy to 4 million in L.A. is facing opposition from–wait for it–environmentalists:
“Los Angeles Department of Water and Power…wants to…

Ben & Jerry’s renames ‘Chubby Hubby’ to ‘Hubby Hubby’

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

 
Today is the first full day of marriage equality in Vermont and Ben & Jerry’s is celebrating the occasion in classic style: by renaming, temporarily, the popular ‘Chubby Hubby’ ice cream to ‘Hubby Hubby’ for the month of September. …

New NASA Building will be self aware

Monday, August 10th, 2009

Remember how in school you learn that what makes humans unique is that they are self aware? Well, humans might have competition from NASA’s new self aware building in California. The building will use zero net energy and will do…

Gay group: We want to keep it straight and narrow

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

Nothing made more headlines for gay rights in the past couple of months than the high profile legal team of David Boies and Theodore Olson fighting for gay marriage at the federal level, using the U.S. Constitution as their guide. …

Episcopal Church says yes to gay bishops and gay marriages.

Monday, July 20th, 2009

From the Washington Post via The Black Cardelias:
On the last day of the church’s triennial national convention in Anaheim, Calif., officials stopped short of creating liturgical rites to bless same-sex unions, but approved a compromise measure that allows bishops,…

‘The Carrie Prejean’ Show brought to you by Americans for Opposite Marriage

Friday, June 12th, 2009

Is it just me or does it matter that Carrie Prejean denied Playboy and NBC’s requests for pictures and reality shows?  We’ve got both already.  Her racy photos and the cheapest, cheesiest reality TV show to date playing out through…

Carrie Prejean thinks Adam Lambert should be America’s ‘Idol’

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Carrie Prejean might be trying to get back in the good graces of someone in Hollywood.  Or, maybe it doesn’t matter to her that she’s denying Adam’s alleged rights.  “Oh, yeah, um, gays they’re so funny, so cool.  They like are…

Freedom from Sea to Shining… Cornfields?

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

California’s Supreme Court ruled today that Proposition 8 was legal, upholding the states’ ban on same-sex marriage.  In the opinion, the justices noted that the proposition was narrow enough that it did not violate constitutional measures.  In the same ruling,…

American Lung Association Releases Ranking of Best, Worst Cities for Air Quality

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

As if we didn’t already know, Los Angeles, CA ranked #1 as the most ozone-polluted city in America according to the American Lung Association’s recent ranking.  According to MSN, “The public-health group ranked the pollution levels of U.S. cities and…

San Francisco Tops “Least Wasteful U.S. City” List

Monday, April 6th, 2009

California knows how to party, but we also know how to keep it clean!
In a study conducted by Nalgene, the Nor Cal city was dubbed “Least Wasteful” because of “widespread habits of recycling, turning off the water while brushing…