http://www.lesbiandad.net notes from the crossroads of mother and father Sat, 11 Oct 2008 06:08:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en         find out more at terrybaum.com A No on 8 speaker will be on hand to talk about what's at stake, and what we all can do. Leave with your calendar filled, your wallet lighter, and your spirits flying!  • Google map here  • excerpt from the one-woman play here • for further ... http://www.lesbiandad.net/2008/10/10/terry-baum-brings-no-on-8-benefit-performance-to-b-town/ New York Times: "Connecticut Ruling Overturns Ban on Same-Sex Marriage": In his majority opinion, Justice Richard N. Palmer wrote that the court found that the “segregation of heterosexual and homosexual couples into separate institutions constitutes a cognizable harm,” in light of “the history of pernicious discrimination faced by gay men and ... http://www.lesbiandad.net/2008/10/10/good-news-from-connecticut/ Ten years ago today, twenty-one-year-old college student Matthew Shepard was found, beaten, bloodied, comatose, and tied to a fence, near Laramie, Wyoming.  He died five days later, October 12, 1998, in a hospital in Fort Collins, Colorado. Cathy Renna speaks for many of us in her Bilerico piece today on him (and ... http://www.lesbiandad.net/2008/10/07/ten-years-ago-today/ [I feel compelled to remind us all that the ongoing election season content caveat applies here: nothing directly relating to lesbians or children or lesbians' children appears below, except that we all ostensibly live in a democracy, whether vital or compromised or, as I often tend to think so many ... http://www.lesbiandad.net/2008/10/06/register-to-vote-and-then-hang-on-tight-to-it/ Imaginary bird, Berkeley, CA. A tiny nuthatch hopped around our front porch and clung to the wisteria vines for a few minutes this afternoon.  She wished it would hop in our house through the open door, and become our pet.  I convinced her it was just as good for the wee thing to ... http://www.lesbiandad.net/2008/10/05/weekend-bonus-shot-090408/ From Aden Nak, courtesy Tagen Goddard. Though it's also on DailyKos. The chart is prefaced by a cathartic rant/critique which, while it suffers from an unfortunate dip in rhetorical grace in the opening ¶, courtesy a ripple of unchecked misogyny, is peppered with some interesting insights and a nice Supreme ... http://www.lesbiandad.net/2008/10/03/some-timely-borrowed-content-re-the-alien-landing-we-saw-last-night-on-the-tv/ Talkin' about the economy, talkin' about national presidential politics, talkin' about Baba's state of mind. Not like you needed to have this spelled out, but menopause + the current economic and political drama = wild toggling between Baba's paired impulses to either FREAK OUT! or CALM DOWN! Since I'm still in Work Deadline ... http://www.lesbiandad.net/2008/10/02/up-and-down-and-round-and-round/ Everything, that is, but the assurance of legal recognition? How 'bout a nice juicy donation to the No on Proposition 8 campaign?  It's all the rage at California weddings this season. And for good reason.  A donation goes with anything you're wearing. It fits fine in your already crowded kitchen cabinets because ... http://www.lesbiandad.net/2008/09/30/what-do-you-give-the-couple-who-has-everything/ Late afternoon at the zoo, Oakland, CA. http://www.lesbiandad.net/2008/09/28/weekend-bonus-shot-092708/ Okay, well, Rome seems to be fine. It's the US of A that's all going to heck these days. And if we don't all do something RIGHT THIS VERY INSTANT, we're evidently going to be headed there in a HANDBASKET. (I wish I were only quoting ... http://www.lesbiandad.net/2008/09/25/posting-kiddle-pix-while-rome-burns/