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More Discrimination Against Johnny Weir
Via Towleroad, we learn that
Johnny Weir has been "deemed too gay for [a] 'Stars on Ice Tour' Invitation":Sponsors of the 'Stars on Ice Tour' are refusing to invite Olympian and three-time National Champion figure skater Johnny Weir to perform because he's not "family friendly" enough.
Read: Too gay.
Towleroad links to a report from GLAAD. The GLAAD blog post links a petition to include Weir in the Stars On Ice Tour.
Previous posts about Weir: Johnny Weir Responds to Gender-Conformity Police; Important Announcement
Johnny Weir has been "deemed too gay for [a] 'Stars on Ice Tour' Invitation":Sponsors of the 'Stars on Ice Tour' are refusing to invite Olympian and three-time National Champion figure skater Johnny Weir to perform because he's not "family friendly" enough.
Read: Too gay.
Towleroad links to a report from GLAAD. The GLAAD blog post links a petition to include Weir in the Stars On Ice Tour.
Previous posts about Weir: Johnny Weir Responds to Gender-Conformity Police; Important Announcement
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Pay increases for City Workers?
http://www.theheraldbulletin.com/local/local_story_070222518.html
Does the Unions and the Council not know we are broke? Or was all the new taxes and tax increase to support this??
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Ind. Decisions - One Indiana case decided today by 7th Circuit
In U.S. v. Sykes (SD Ind., McKinney), a 12-page opinion, Judge Bauer writes:Defendant Marcus Sykes pleaded guilty to being...
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Friday Blogaround
This Blogaround is brought to you by Shaxco, makers of Kraken Krispies cereal. RELEASE THE KRAKEN with new Kraken Krispies!
(Comes with a Ray Harryhausen action figure in every box--only while supplies last!)
Recommended reading:
MissPrism: Compare and Contrast
Scott Bryan Wilson: Mass-market paperback postmodernism (via Scott Esposito)
Elif Batuman will be reading from her new book The Possessed, at McNally Jackson Books in New York City on Monday, March 15. She will also be at Brookline Booksmith in Boston on the 17th. I have not yet read The Possessed, though I have read a couple of the essays collected therein. The first essay in the book, "Babel in California", originally appeared in N+1 magazine back when I used to buy N+1. The piece is poignant, hilarious, and just generally astounding. You can read an interview about the book with Alexandra Alter at The Wall Street Journal online. Batuman's "The murder of Leo Tolstoy: A forensic investigation" appeared in Harper's in February 2009. You can even read it for free!
The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin: See the inside of some of [David Foster] Wallace's books (via Oxford University Press USA blog)
[Trigger Warning] Historiann: The Line: a film by Nancy Schwartzman (This post has an excellent comments thread)
National Patient Advocate Foundation: Patient Advocate Foundation Launches National Underinsured Resource Directory
Two from Sociological Images: The Walmart Barbie Scandal and Welcome, Women, To Your Special Section
Making Latex Clothing: How to make latex ruffles (via Petulant)
(Comes with a Ray Harryhausen action figure in every box--only while supplies last!)
Recommended reading:
MissPrism: Compare and Contrast
Scott Bryan Wilson: Mass-market paperback postmodernism (via Scott Esposito)
Elif Batuman will be reading from her new book The Possessed, at McNally Jackson Books in New York City on Monday, March 15. She will also be at Brookline Booksmith in Boston on the 17th. I have not yet read The Possessed, though I have read a couple of the essays collected therein. The first essay in the book, "Babel in California", originally appeared in N+1 magazine back when I used to buy N+1. The piece is poignant, hilarious, and just generally astounding. You can read an interview about the book with Alexandra Alter at The Wall Street Journal online. Batuman's "The murder of Leo Tolstoy: A forensic investigation" appeared in Harper's in February 2009. You can even read it for free!
The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin: See the inside of some of [David Foster] Wallace's books (via Oxford University Press USA blog)
[Trigger Warning] Historiann: The Line: a film by Nancy Schwartzman (This post has an excellent comments thread)
National Patient Advocate Foundation: Patient Advocate Foundation Launches National Underinsured Resource Directory
Two from Sociological Images: The Walmart Barbie Scandal and Welcome, Women, To Your Special Section
Making Latex Clothing: How to make latex ruffles (via Petulant)
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The Runaways
The Runaways tells the tale of Joan Jett and Cherie Currie as they rise to stardom, and "chronicles Joan and Cherie's tumultuous relationship on and off stage," whatever that means.
The film stars Kristen Stewart as Joan Jett, Dakota Fanning as Cherie Currie, Stella Maeve as Sandy West, Scout Taylor-Compton as Lita Ford and Michael Shannon as Kim Fowley.
Based on Cherie Currie's book Neon Angel. In theaters March 19th.
[Cross-posted.]
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Ind. Decisions - Vanderburgh Circuit Court rejects Presbyterian Church (USA) claims to a local church's property
The only writeup the ILB has seen of the March 9, 2010 decision by Judge Carl Heldt is in The...
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Daylight Savings Time
Don't forget to spring forward Saturday night March 13, 2010 for Daylight Savings time. Set your clocks ahead one hour.
Don't be late for Church.
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Ind. Decisions - Court of Appeals issues 3 today (and 6 NFP)
For publication opinions today (3): In Term. of Parent-Child Rel. of A.B., et al.; A.B. v. IDCS, an 11-page opinion,...
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Woman Attacked After Rejecting Man At Bar
[Trigger Warning.]
I don't have anything insightful to say about this story out of New York, so I'll just open it up to discussion.
A stranger followed a woman into a New York City bar restroom after she rejected his advances early Thursday, savagely beat her in a toilet stall and perhaps tried to sexually assault her, police said.
The attack occurred around 2 a.m. at Social, a three-story bar and lounge on Eighth Avenue in midtown Manhattan where the 29-year-old victim, a nurse, had gone with a friend, authorities said.
The woman told police that she had rebuffed attempts by the man to dance with her, said police spokesman Paul Browne. When she went to the women's restroom on the second floor, he followed her and burst into a stall.
The man beat the victim until she was unconscious. Her friend later found her in the stall and called 911, believing she might have fallen.
The woman was hospitalized with a broken eye socket, broken jaw and other injuries. When she regained consciousness, she told hospital workers she had been attacked.The assailant was captured on video after the attack. Police have released the footage. Here's to hoping justice finds him, and his victim makes a full recovery.
I don't have anything insightful to say about this story out of New York, so I'll just open it up to discussion.
A stranger followed a woman into a New York City bar restroom after she rejected his advances early Thursday, savagely beat her in a toilet stall and perhaps tried to sexually assault her, police said.
The attack occurred around 2 a.m. at Social, a three-story bar and lounge on Eighth Avenue in midtown Manhattan where the 29-year-old victim, a nurse, had gone with a friend, authorities said.
The woman told police that she had rebuffed attempts by the man to dance with her, said police spokesman Paul Browne. When she went to the women's restroom on the second floor, he followed her and burst into a stall.
The man beat the victim until she was unconscious. Her friend later found her in the stall and called 911, believing she might have fallen.
The woman was hospitalized with a broken eye socket, broken jaw and other injuries. When she regained consciousness, she told hospital workers she had been attacked.The assailant was captured on video after the attack. Police have released the footage. Here's to hoping justice finds him, and his victim makes a full recovery.
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Courts - "3rd Circuit Asked to Clarify Student Internet Speech Cases"
Read this in conjunction with yesterday's ILB entry, "School sued for punishing teens over MySpace pix." Shannon P. Duffy of...
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Ind. Decisions - "Valpo Cafe vows to press its case against VU"
The Court of Appeals' Feb. 1, 2010 decision in Borovilos Restaurant Corporation, II v. Lutheran University Association, Inc. (ILB summary...
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Blog Note
I've got some personal stuff to do this morning, so I won't be around until later today. Happy Friday!
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Ind. Decisions - Federal Judge orders Pastrick, allies to pay $108M to East Chicago
Some quotes from Dan Hinkel's report today in the NWI Times:HAMMOND | Region political icon Robert Pastrick and two former...
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MOMMAS FAMILY
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