links for 2009-04-26

video produced by the Democratic party

Westboro Baptist, the gays best friend.

"Newspapers must define their value differently - not as paper, for God’s sake, and not even as content but as a platform. But a platform for what? Content? No, there go GeoCities and MySpace. I think they should follow the advice of Mark Zuckerberg, member of the ruling junta, that their job is to bring communities elegant organization. In a sense, they always have done that; they helped communities organize their knowledge so they could organize themselves; that’s the essence of an informed democracy."

As the Christian Science Monitor put it in their story on Monday, “The directors of the Miss California pageant condemned her answer on Monday morning.”

Excerpt: “They called him gay and a snitch,” his stepfather said. “All the time they’d call him this.”

Earlier this month the suicide of a Massachusetts boy, Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover — who suffered taunts that he was gay — attracted national attention.

He was also 11. His mother found him hanging from an extension cord in the family’s home.

In the UK she calls him names and sends threatening text messages then claims she was trying to open a dialogue. The son says, "She told me to stop being gay or get out of Aberdeen. She basically threw me out of the house." Good for the court! And good luck to him.