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Here is a good spot by Keith Olbermann (Oct. 25) discussing the recent uproar over the attack by Rush Limbaugh over Michael J. Fox’s advert for a Senatorial candidate in Missouri.

And here is an interview with Michael J. Fox with Katie Couric (Oct. 27).

Two things from these videos. Rush Limbaugh should have taken his (illegal) medications, and – as Al Franken once said – Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot!

Tonight at 2AM, daylight savings time goes back one hour (so miraculously we have a repeat of a whole hour. Lifehacker has some tips to share about how you can use this reminder to do some things around the house.

On the topic of DST reversion, I remember when I used to work in the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, the clocks would stop at 1AM and just stay still for a whole hour, until 2AM came around, then they would start again. This apparently was easier than having to forward the clocks 11 hours (these were centrally controlled clocks).

The other thing that always fascinated me (in working in a hospital) was what happened if someone died during that hour. Did they all die at 1AM? If they didn’t, and someone died at 1:53AM, and then the clocks reverted, could you have someone die after another person, but technically die before them?

Important questions, which I never discovered the answer to.

Initial reading of the decision from the New Jersey Supreme Court (Lewis v. Harris [A-68-05]), it appears that the NJ legislature has 180 days to amend the marriage statutes to provide the option for same-sex marriages.

NJ Supreme Court Decision on Lewis v. Harris (A-68-05)

Initial reading of the decision from the New Jersey Supreme Court (Lewis v. Harris [A-68-05]), it appears that the NJ legislature has 180 days to amend the marriage statutes to provide the option for same-sex marriages.

A copy of the decision is available here.

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A few weeks back, I made a post about the word of the day – pettifogger. I had a couple of people ask what this actually referred to, so I figured it was time for a post on why pettifogger meant so much to me that I would post it. For some this is now old news, but for others, well this may just be something new and equally boring.

It’s no secret that there has been some tension between myself and some of the board members of CCGLA (Collin County Gay and Lesbian Alliance). For those of you who are recent viewers of this blog, Chris and I were founding members of CCGLA, and I was responsible for the establishment of the organization as an incorporated body (hence the Inc. bit after their name). Well like most things in life, people don’t always agree, and CCGLA board meetings were no different (diversity of opinion is something I actually value more than sameness). After one such disagreement, some members of the board moved to remove me as a board member (director) and then as a member of CCGLA. This happened in November 2005. I filed a lawsuit, I waited and I withdrew the suit in June this year (you can read more about that over here).

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Don’t you hate it when you log into your blog site and find draft posts still waiting to be published? The following was started a couple of weeks ago, and I was going to just discard it, but I kind of liked what I wrote, and it will remind me of what I did on this weekend. The weekend this post references is October 6-8, 2006.

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Thank the heavens for Lifehacker!

Today I was browsing though some posts on Lifehacker and found out that Google Earth have created a Election 2006 overlay. This shows a graphical overlay of where the congressional districts (at this stage it’s only federal election information), and click on the (patriotic) star gives you the information on who the candidates are for this race, along with links to funding information over at the Federal Elections Commission and Center for Responsive Politics (otherwise known as Open Secrets).

Now if this information was available yesterday, I could have incorporated it into the Equality|Frisco election guide I spent most of the day working on.

Check out the new overlay on Google Earth. Fab-O!

According to a story in the Dallas Morning News today, a “study, based on the most recent U.S. Census data, found that San Antonio has the highest percentage of gay couples raising children in the nation. Houston is fourth and the Fort Worth-Arlington area is fifth.”

The study goes on to suggest that this increase is part of the “gayby boom” experienced over the last twenty-five years.