"Here's a suggestion for all the hatey, butt-sore, anti-gay bakers in Arizona: start an organization—The Arizona Association of Homophobic Bakers—and publicly identify yourselves as homophobic bakers. Put up a website with a list of bakeries that don't want to do business with LGBT people. Put signs in your windows that clearly state that gay and lesbian customers are not welcome and will be turned away. As Anderson Cooper pointed out earlier this week, gays and lesbians are not covered by existing anti-discrimination law in Arizona. So it's perfectly legal right now for bakers—and florists and caterers and photographers—to discriminate against LGBT customers. Discriminating against LGBT people was legal in Arizona before Jan Brewer vetoed the turn-away-the-gays bill, and it remains legal after her veto. So homophobic bakers who identify themselves as haters and bigots run no legal risk. They can't be sued by the individual gay people they discriminate against and the authorities can't fine 'em or shut 'em down. Don't want gay customers? Great. Let us know who you are. Put up a list online, hang signs in your windows, and we will take our business elsewhere." – Dan Savage, writing for the Stranger.
I Am Incorrigible
Never Again
Tonight I thought I'd install Windows via Bootcamp onto my Mac so I wouldn't have to bring that stupid HP laptop home from work on the rare occasions I needed to.
What a mistake that was.
Yeah, it installed easily enough, and surprisingly, it actually worked. That is, it worked until I downloaded 135 software updates and after rebooting, the network adapter disappeared.
It's shit like this that caused my initial move to Apple back in 2009.
Fuck you, Microsoft. Windows will never be installed on anything I own ever again.
And This…
…is just one of many reasons I love Apple.
CEO Tim Cook said Friday at the company's annual shareholder meeting that there is no room at the table for climate deniers.
The National Center for Public Policy Research, a D.C.based conservative think thank, arrived at the meeting demanding that the board not pursue any environmental initiatives that hurt the company's bottom line. The group's proposal would have required Apple to disclose the costs of such initiatives and to be more transparent about its relationship with "certain trade associations and business organizations promoting the amorphous concept of environmental sustainability."
Cook's response to this squawking was priceless: "We do a lot of things for reasons besides profit motive," and reiterated Steve Jobs' founding vision for Apple: "We want to leave the world better than we found it."
And if the NCPPR wasn't unhappy enough with that, he went on, saying they could just leave. "If you want me to do things only for [return on investment] reasons," he said, "you should get out of this stock."
Oh sah-nap!
Needless to say, the NCPPR did not take the rejection well, throwing a tantrum by tossing themselves on the floor, stomping their feet and threatening to hold their breath until they turned blue…like typical toddlers.
Goodbye, Honey Bear
Ben and I have suffered through entirely too much death during the past twelve months.
2014 was supposed to be better.
I am Incorrigible
Some People Need to be Reminded
Chris Hardwick is Totally Straight
The Ritual is Complete
Ink
Hi
Grrr!
