Hello, my name is Jhames

The idea of legalized marriage for gay and lesbian couples offends your sensitivities. Know what offends my sensitivities? People who wear UGGs and Crocs. People that can’t spell. People that can’t tell the difference between “your” and “you’re” Hipsters. Fucking hipsters. Corporate personhood. You claim that marriage is a union between one man and one woman. Fine. Have your sacred fucking union but give everyone the same rights afforded married couples. I’m pretty sure that a gay couple desiring power of attorney for each other in case of catastrophe is not going to destroy your sacred union. Please spare me your religious diatribes about gays being abominations of God. I’ve read the Bible enough to know that Christians have no problem picking and choosing passages to suit their needs. Self-entitlement abounds in Christianity, and one need look no further than so-called Christians who gossip, … Continue reading →

Update: Thanks to Patrick, and NPR, I’ve learned that the Food and Drug Administration instituted the ban on gay & bisexual men donating blood to organizations such as American Red Cross. I’ve discontinued the previous petition on act.ly in place of a new one that petitions Barack Obama to lift the FDA’s ban on allowing blood donations from gay & bisexual men.

If you read Flickr Censors Political Image Critical of President Obama by Thomas Hawk, you’ll see an interesting discussion centered around a Photoshop’d photograph of President Obama and Flickr’s decision to remove the image. Firas Alkhateeb, a 20-year-old college student in Illinois, is responsible for the image: he started with a cover photograph of Obama from Time magazine and used Photoshop to render Obama’s face as the Joker from Batman: The Dark Knight.

In the past five years since living in Seattle I’ve been hit on my bicycle several times by drivers who pay more attention to their mobile calls than traffic. Fortunately for me, many of these drivers own luxury cars which means their insurance plans will cover my hospital bills and any necessary repairs to my bicycle. This, unfortunately, is my health insurance plan.