Talk about epic failure!!! City councilmembers making $100,000 + and top city officials of a rf a rinky dinky little town of only 37,000 making 7 times more than the president of the United States???Anyone with even the most minute amount of common sense would find something a bit strange about that one. It’s obvious these politicos [...]
I know I’ve seen this guy around town so I thought I’d pass this story along, via KMPH: Madera County Sheriff’s Detectives have arrested a child predator, who they say used Facebook to lure his victims. Deputies arrested 30-year-old Daniel Alvarez, after they say he lured a 15-year-old on the social networking site. Officers say [...]
I meant to post this coverage over the weekend but I didn’t get a chance to. This is a link to the ABC30 story covering the funeral services for Gloria and Stevie Acuna. http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?section=news/local&id=7570835
As Ellen DeGeneres bows out of American Idol, and Kara DioGuardi gets the boot, the reality show has two open seats for new judges for its 10th season. One of those seats may be filled by Former Fly Girl Jennifer Lopez (yeah, we know she’s done stuff since then, but the Fly Girls were so…fly, [...]
Sara Gilbert – oh, you know, that lovable angst-ridden teenager Darlene from Roseanne and the engaging if not nerdy vinyl junky Anna Moss from High Fidelity – recently spoke at the Television Critics Association panel in Los Angeles, the first time she’s addressed being gay in public. Gilbert and her partner, television producer Allison Adler, [...]
President Barack Obama believes that the Defense of Marriage Act, along with the military’s “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy “should be changed,” according to White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, who responded to questions on the issue from The Advocate Thursday. The Advocate asked Gibbs: A growing number of people have started to call on the administration [...]
Jose Luis Navarro and Miguel Angel Calefato – an architect and a retired office worker, respectively – became the first same-sex couple to wed under Argentina’s newly legalized same-sex marriage law. The couple have been partners for 27 years. The law took effect just this morning, and was signed into law on July 21. According to the [...]
The other day a woman I hardly knew asked me, “Do you have sex?†I answered, “Yes, I have sex all the time.†She stared at me for a moment, blinked and walked away. I had a lot of fun trying to imagine what she was thinking. But really, we all have sex all the time, everywhere we [...]
I spent the last nine days in my home state of Iowa reconnecting with family and friends. My partner Joe and I both grew up in Iowa, but have been living in Seattle for the last three years. The last time we were home was in April of 2009. We departed Iowa the day the Iowa [...]
Pesticide residue carried by rainwater finds its way through the leafy canopy to the forest floor and into the groundwater where it mixes with other compounds andts way through the leafy canopy to the forest floor and into the groundwater where it mixes with other compounds and has disastrous effects on the earth’s biosphere. Similarly, issues of Native American identity filter down through the culture, mixing with loss of language, poverty, struggles to continue traditional [...]