The Big Picture

More photographs from the Boston Globe’s amazing News Stories in Photographs section.
President Obama’s first 167 days
U.S. President Barack Obama has now been in office for 167 days, and it’s time for a look back. Why 167 days? Why not – it’s just as arbitrary a number as the usual “100 days”. In that time, [...]

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Getting rid of "green"

Great article in April 13th Newsweek
A Q&A with NY Times columnist Thomas Friedman, author of “Hot, Flat, and Crowded”
For the entire article click here: Getting Rid of Green
In his bestselling book “Hot, Flat, and Crowded,” New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman argues that countries that pioneer renewable-energy technologies will increase their national security and [...]

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Shocking…I know

Teenagers who pledge to remain virgins until marriage are just as likely to have premarital sex as those who do not promise abstinence and are significantly less likely to use condoms and other forms of birth control when they do, according to a study released today.
“Taking a pledge doesn’t seem to make any difference at [...]

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First Comes Love, then Comes…

The battle wages on and the protests continue.
From Margaret & Helen

If marriage is an institution supported by this country then it must be made available to all of its citizens according to the law.  If however, it is strictly a religious institution then a constitutional amendment determining who can and cannot have access to it [...]

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That’s a Wrap #3

True Blood continues on HBO, and I am still amazed at how “just OK” it is. The lead vamp, Bill, is very intriguing, in a mysterious vampire sort of way. Anna Paquin’s Sookie is getting a little more annoying in her naivete, and the subplots of her brother, Jason, and her friend Tara and bordering [...]

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Don’t Vote

Really.

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"…because discrimination has no place in America…"

Brad Pitt has donated $100,000 to fight California’s November ballot initiative that would overturn the state Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage. Click here for the rest.
Newsweek has a great article on the challenges that gay seniors are facing because of the structure of the current laws.
‘Invisible And Overlooked’
A growing population of lesbian and gay [...]

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Seriously???

Seems they can’t get on the same page within their own team.
McCain camp calls Fey’s Palin portrayal ‘sexist’
“The portrait was very dismissive of the substance of Sarah Palin, and so in that sense, they were defining Hillary Clinton as very substantive, and Sarah Palin as totally superficial,” McCain advisor Carly Fiorina told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell [...]

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Oh, that’s who she looks like…

I have tried to embed this video here, but I just can’t get it to cooperate. If you haven’t seen Tina Fey on SNL from this past Saturday, it’s hysterical…and well worth the 5 minutes.
Check it out here.

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Electing a President in Plain English

Thanks to DJK for this one

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