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Proud to say that my rural, extremely conservative county in Northeast Texas (culturally very much part of the South) issued same sex marriage licenses today. Lamar County. Two licenses issued.
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I want to point out here that the county clerks answer to neither the governor nor the attorney general, as they are officers of their local county government. This is why Abbott and Paxton are being so passive-aggressively vague about the whole thing and why many clerks are blithely ignoring them. Read more

The people at Gawker did a hell of a thing when they hired Greg Howard to write for them, and I am sure I’m not the only one who is thankful they did. Read more

I just used this on a pissy commenter on ROYGBIV earlier and, fuck it, it’s still relevant:

Your tabs make a story for people with no time on their hands when read left to right. It looks like you met a gay guy named Ryan, emailed him, fucked him, got pregnant, met his wife and was surprised, so you slept on it and woke up to kill him in grief and hysteria, then when the cops came to get you, you went down… Read more

I can’t decide what I love (admire?) more about this image: the fact that you have 79 unsent drafts—and therefore are an even worse procrastinator than I am—or that you have an entire folder in your Gmail dedicated to “Grim Sexts”. Read more

Stop, please...I can only get so erect. Read more

Imma bring this out again.

also this is so fucked up to that baby Read more

like are you literally god damn serious rn Read more

Bit late, but this press release just arrived in my box from Larry Klayman.

something called “interpretive jiggery-pokery.” Read more

Writing for the majority, Justice Roberts said, “Holy shit, this whole lawsuit was so fucking stupid.” Read more

I live here and I’m sorry we do not have a serial killer, we have a drug problem. All of these women were drug addicts. That doesn’t take away from what happened to them and I really hope they find out what happened.
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I’m from Chillicothe; I knew Tiffany and Charlotte from high school. People have their opinions of the town—I even agree with a lot of them. It breaks my heart, though, to hear the constant narrative of “Yeah, it’s such a tragedy, but they were drug-using prostitutes. The town’s riddled with poverty, what do you… Read more

He seems like an asshat. Here he is talking about how he gets his inspiration; Read more