California poll sheds new light on Prop 8 vote, but little regarding the obvious

Since the blame-the-black vote re: Prop 8 has been so controversial, you would have thought that the Public Policy Institute of California could see the relevance in putting numbers out there to chew on.

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Julien thinks...

......that this news will get the Fundies' collective knickers into a major twist.

From National Geographic: 

Humans 80,000 Years Older Than Previously Thought?

Modern humans may have evolved more than 80,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to a new study of sophisticated stone tools found in Ethiopia.

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Fundie LaRue whines about eHarmony settlement

One of the professional Christian set, Jan LaRue of the Culture and Media Institute has published a whiny, hand-wringing diatribe about the eHarmony settlement -- the Christian-owned matchmaking company recently agreed to provide a dating service for same-sex couples.

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The LCR election post-mortem continues the delusions about a pro-gay McCain

Watching this organization flounder during the 2008 presidential campaign has been like observing a train wreck in slow motion.

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Catholic church continues PR task to give Mormons cover on Prop 8

Blah, blah, blah -- the defenses for Prop 8 support keep on coming and are offensive, bigoted, ignorant -- and wholly expected.

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Daddy D's hissy fit over WaPo conservative columnist Kathleen Parker

I haven't seen the old man's panties this bunched up in a long while. Focus on Your Family founder James Dobson is seething over Kathleen Parker's recent series of columns that blasts the GOP for aligning the party with the fundamentalist fringe.

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My take on the Utah Rep's "Merry Christmas" Resolution

This story will be in my "War on Christmas" segment on the radio show this weekend, and I know it's already been blogged, but I just had to drop by and add: Here's a shorter way to think of it: We want to say "Happy Holidays" because Christmas is a holiday.

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All those inaugural balls, parties and schmoozing in the company town known as DC

I've been sitting here in NC blogging about national regime change since July 2004. The Blend rode the wave as part of the whole citizen journalism movement/new media and I've had the chance to report from debates, forums, town halls and the Dem convention.

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Mean Makes Misfits

We take you now to the North Pole, where the misled and ill-informed Santa's Elves passed Proposition D by the narrowest of margins.

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Equality California Just Doesn't Get It - You Have To Say The Words

Okay, I admit that I'm perhaps a little sensitive when it comes to diversity and inclusion. Whenever I hear lesbian and gay without bisexual and transgender from a lesbian or gay person, I hear "exclusion.

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