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The conservative Family Foundation said in a statement that gay rights groups are “willing to frighten and mislead their supporters simply to further their own political agenda.” (read more)

Um, yeah, they’ve got that backwards. Since when does extending a right to increase equality frighten anyone with a functioning brain? It’s the conservative side in this mess that is more than “willing to frighten and mislead their supporters simply to further their own political agenda.” Which group is out there saying that the world will end in a hail of fire, and the earth will swallow the people, and the beasts will have the run of the earth if Adam gets to marry the proverbial (and oh-so-clever) Steve? I mean seriously. Equal marriage rights will provide a number of benefits to society:

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…you pick. Dell Computer is stooping so low as to pay people to send in their iPods in a futile bid to get them to buy a Dell music player. Sure, iPods are more expensive. So? They look and function much better as well. Check out the buttons. And is that a roll-wheel in the middle? Shame on you, Dell. Shame.

“A teacher is supposedly instilling in my children a sense of responsibility and a sense of worth, and you don’t see that when you sneak around a rule and find a cute exception.” (read more)

Yeah, you don’t see that when a parent sends their kid off to school all day expecting the teacher to do the hard stuff and deal with them for ten hours either. If the teachers found a loophole, fine. Loopholes can be closed. This one hasn’t been, and it seems pretty open: work the last day before you retire in a job that pays into Social Security, and you get Social Security. Easy to close. But it hasn’t been closed. Deal with it, and maybe try to have a hand in raising your kids instead of complaining when teachers try to get paid a little more. God forbid.

Although charged with making the nation more secure, the Department of Homeland Security has not taken the steps needed to secure its own wireless communications, according to a report from the department’s Inspector General. (read more)

Hee hee hee… that’s what I like to call ‘a lack of moral authority’. Doctor, heal thyself.

Sony Corp. said Thursday it is launching a Walkman digital music player capable of storing far more songs than Apple Computer Inc.’s market-leading iPod, while also undercutting iPod’s price. (read more)

…and you have to use Sony Connect, a music service that Sony itself called ‘disappointing’ and everyone else called ‘a failed ripoff of iTuned’. Apple won in the digital music market. And Sony is wasting money. Have you ever tried to use Sony-proprietary ATRAC-3 encoding? Yeah, can’t use it with anything else. Guess what? Your iPod uses proprietary compression too. Did you notice? Bet not, because its all but transparent. Rock on, Apple.