same-sex marriage

Eloquent: Zach Wahls speaks about family

How to tell people they sound racist

How to tell people they sound racist

the challenge of anti-racist

On noticing what pervades our air

Both figuratively and literally:
http://twowomenblogging.blogspot.com/2010/08/where-theres-smoke-by-jay.html

Judge overturns Calif. gay marriage ban

Woohoo! Judge overturns Calif. gay marriage ban

Fallacy: Appeal to Consequences of a Belief

Includes: Wishful Thinking
Description of Appeal to Consequences of a Belief

The Appeal to the Consequences of a Belief is a fallacy that comes in the following patterns:

1. X is true because if people did not accept X as being true then there would be negative consequences.

2. X is false because if people did not accept X as being false, then there would be negative consequences.

3. X is true because accepting that X is true has positive consequences.

4. X is false because accepting that X is false has positive consequences.

5. I wish that X were true, therefore X is true. This is known as Wishful Thinking.

6. I wish that X were false, therefore X is false. This is known as Wishful Thinking.

http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/appeal-to-consequences.html

Yahoo jp's mobile site

I found it interesting that the top 4 menu items in Yahoo jp mobile's site are:
weather 天気, stocks 株価, sports スポーツ, baseball 野球

Also, the 4 news items listed today:
* consumer tax
民主、ビラの「消費税」削除
* the sumo wrestler gambling scandal
元力士「自分が賭博胴元」
* Brazil advances over Chile (in the world cup)
ブラジル、チリに3-0で快勝
* 3 members from AKB48 form a new subunit (Akihabara fan(boy) news)
AKB48 から3人組の新ユニット写真

on racism: a thoughtful post by ebert

From Roger Ebert's Journal:
How do they get to be that way?

Aiyana Stanley-Jones

http://bitchmagazine.org/post/aiyana-stanley-jones-at-the-altar-of-the-media

A senseless death. My condolences to her family.

a different perspective on food

http://twowomenblogging.blogspot.com/2010/05/who-provides-us-with-sustenance-by-jay.html

I love stuff like this

Thinking about society anew:
conversations-with-my-daughter-by-jay

you're kidding, right?

Geez.

Were Sapa and Manpower serious about this?

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mistaken identity

A thoughtful post on mistaken identity and racism.

Found through a post at racialicious, referencing a more recent post at resistracism.