PlanetOut speculates that the LGBT community and their supporters were a determining factor in the recent Democratic recapture of the Senate, as they rallied to defeat Virginia’s proposed constitutional same-sex marriage ban. Opponents of the ban also tended to support Democrat James Webb, who won his seat by a slim margin. LGBT-rights advocates in California […]
Continuing my occasional series on games for kids: Hisss, a simple color-matching game, has become a recent favorite. Players draw two-color tiles and place them on the table to build snakes. Whoever completes a snake head to tail gets to collect the tiles, and whoever collects the most, wins. The game is marked “four and
Marriage on the brain this week, I’m afraid. My own will be this Saturday, which, by complete coincidence, is also the third anniversary of the Goodridge decision that legalized same-sex marriage in Massachusetts. If we’re lucky, we’ll get the Leonid meteor shower to provide us with some fireworks. Farther afield, the BBC News yesterday highlighted
The Advocate reports that “two women will be listed as parents on the birth certificate of a baby born this week in New Jersey, one of the first implications of a state supreme court ruling that gives same-sex couples access to the same rights as married couples.” This parentage decision, by a New Jersey family
Showtime’s Web site is now stating that the new season of The L Word will premiere January 7, 2007, making me ask once again “Where did the summer go?” Still, I’ll be happy to see the gals soon. I’ve had enough wallowing in LGBT politics and I want some pure escapism, dammit. New cast members
I was rereading a USA TODAY article from September that reported: “Marriage and parenthood define what’s different about Democratic and Republican districts even more clearly than race, income, education or geography.” Republican representatives, far more than Democrats, come from districts that have high percentages of married people and many children, with Republicans averaging 7,000 more
Life coach Paula Gregorowicz is dishing out Thanksgiving advice all over the place, both at Queercents and her own site, Coaching4Lesbians. Worth a read if you’re starting to feel your pressure rise as you think about stuffing and gravy and in-laws. Personally, I’m too busy arranging my wedding this weekend to even think about Thanksgiving
In the face of poor test scores and a lack of basic math skills among secondary-school students, educators around the country are rethinking math curricula, the New York Times reports. Math reforms a decade ago that emphasized letting students solve problems their own way, without necessarily teaching basics like long division, have not had their
A twelve-year study of over 90,000 women has found that daily consumption of red meat may significantly increase a woman’s risk of certain breast cancers, even before menopause. Women who ate more than one and a half 100-gram servings of red meat per day had nearly twice the risk of developing hormone-sensitive breast cancer as
A comment on Parent Hacks tipped me off to the great blog Ikea Hacker. It’s full of ways to tweak, enhance, and otherwise modify products from the Swedish retailer. Add doors to a shelving unit. Make a pinhole camera from a plant-pot holder. Add a pattern to the inside back of a bookcase. (This would
