January 2010

  • Robert B. Parker (September 17, 1932-January 18, 2010)

    By lisala on 1/29/10 10:23pm
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    Parker died last week at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was 77. His wife stepped out for a class, and he was at his desk, writing. When she came back, she found him still at his desk, but no longer one of the living. I do feel very bad for her; it's a terrible loss and one that one doesn't ever really recover from. You just learn to go on. I've only lately come to admire Parker; a mere two years. But I've been reading all I can. I admit that I'm partial to the Spenser novels, as I've noted before. But I want to talk about one of the ways Parker has left a lasting mark, a legacy, that will go on, long after I'm gone. Parker was honest about the world and about people in ways that not any people are.

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  • Thanks to The Supreme Court, Corporations Have More Rights than We Do

    By lisala on 1/26/10 11:50pm
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  • Fox To US-ify Torchwood?

    By erika on 1/19/10 6:47pm
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    Sly Like A...Sly Like A...Rumor Has It that Fox is considering picking up and developing its own version of Torchwood for the US audience.  Why, that sounds like nearly as good an idea as a US version of Red Dwarf!  Wouldn't that be… oh wait, they did, and it was terrible TERRIBLE.

    Torchwood fans are universally set against this move.  For one thing, we already have a perfectly good Torchwood, thank you very much.  For another thing, although Fox Network is only loosely tied to Fox News, a lot of people assume that a Fox created Torchwood would be a Torchwood without all the gay.  


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  • Same Sex Marriage Again on Trial in California

    By ecoscott on 1/11/10 7:29pm
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    Same sex marriage has long been a contentious topicSame sex marriage has long been a contentious topicGay marriage is continuing to be a hot button issue with lawmakers, and continuing to be a contentious issue even in California. In a case that challenges California’s Prop 8, two same sex couples are making their case, along with lawyers to a California court, that they should be able to be legally married. Same-sex marriage is legal in 5 states and the District of Columbia as of the end of 2009. In others, gay couples have the option of entering into a domestic partnership, though often there are significant legal differences between that and marriage.

    "Being able to call him my husband is so definitive," said Paul Katami, one of the men who is suing for the right to marry his partner.

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