Thorne | February 5, 2009 | 11:07 pm
I gotta have those panties! More fun at the site!
Thorne | February 5, 2009 | 4:11 am
Courtesy of The Pagan Sphinx
Equal but separate? Let’s hope not.
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California Supreme Court to Hear Oral Arguments
in Prop 8 Legal Challenge on March 5
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| The California Supreme Court must issue its decisions within 90 days of oral argument. |
| On January 15, 2009, 43 friend-of-the-court briefs urging the Court to invalidate Prop 8 were filed, arguing that Proposition 8 drastically alters the equal protection guarantee in California’s Constitution and that the rights of a minority cannot be eliminated by a simple majority vote. The supporters represent the full gamut of California’s and the nation’s civil rights organizations and legal scholars, as well as California legislators, local governments, bar associations, business interests, labor unions, and religious groups. |
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Thorne | November 29, 2008 | 5:46 am
Sickening. One more good reason for the Boycott of Black Friday. I really hope none of you were involved in anything like this. And I hope it makes people think a little.
A Wal-Mart worker on Long Island died after being trampled by customers who broke through the doors early Friday. And fights and injuries occurred around the country at some other stores operated by Wal-Mart,
Nassau County Police examine the front of the Wal-Mart in Valley Stream, N.Y., Friday, Nov. 28, 2008, after a temporary Wal-Mart worker died after a throng of eager shoppers broke down the doors and trampled him moments after the Long Island store opened early Friday for day-after-Thanksgiving bargain hunting, police said.
I think it ties into a sort of fear and panic of not having enough,” said Joe Priester, a professor at the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California and a former president of the Society for Consumer Psychology. A herd mentality, he said, can lead individuals to feel anonymous — so much so that they are quite capable of trampling someone. “Fear combined with the group mentality?” he said. “It doesn’t surprise me at all
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