I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!

( needs more unicorns )

Minnesota is in the throws of GOP madness spreading across the mid-west, and for the first time, their newly all Republican legislature is going gang busters on jobs! jobs! jobs! an anti same sex marriage constitutional amendment. The head haters there in the gopher state, The Minnesota Family Council had Presidential stumbler NEWT! up for a little meet and greet, and book sale. Same old same old, right?

Enter Professional prankster, and I guess gay activist Nick Espinosa aka Robert Erickson, who has done this sort of thing in the past ( dumping a bunch of pennies on some Republican last year ) NOW, you think these Einsteins running the Minnesota Family Cross Burning would have a photo of the only professional political prankster milling about the twin cities. But, FEEL THE RAINBOW !

Now then, I do not approve. Pranks like this are selfish and for the most part don't work. That and somebody had to clean up that mess, and there could have been some sort of odd reaction with the third Mrs. NEWT's! botox. Again, I do not think that attention grabbing stunts like these do anything at all except for the pranksters youtube account, but what should the glbt and their straight allies be doing these days.

• The Then-they-came-for-the-Trade-Unionists,-and-I-did-not-speak-out --Because-I -was-not-a -Trade-Unionist Award goes to : Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, who " believes that a law that gives same sex couples hospital visitation rights violates the state constitution. YES! ( more ) Your freaking husband or wife of .. FORTY years is in a car accident, a serious one, and YOU are kept from the bedside. None of the legal papers you have at home, none of your powers of attorneys, legal proxies or any of the hoops you have jumped through make you any more than a roommate. Deal with it.
• Same Sex Marriage in New York. Being held hostage by a few state senators. Up to 60% of New Yorkers want SS Marriage, with 10-12 % not giving a fuzzy rats patootie. But it could again go nowhere because of a hand full of chicken shit GOP AND One big Democratic Senators. 
• You HAD to know this one was coming, this weekends rapture : THE GAYS.
• North Carolina is going for the super anti gay amendment as well, claiming that marriage is GONE in Scandinavia . ( But interestingly healthy on the seventh anniversary of same sex marriage in Massachusetts ) Also free speech stops at anti gay rights rallies.

And this is ONLY what I read this morning. So, maybe FEEL THE RAINBOW was a bit much, but man, the Christianist out there are coming after us big time and maybe a new approach - NON glitter related - is needed.