QUICKIES 11/26/2012
By Depressing: a judge in Maine ruled in favor of a school district after school officials prohibited a young transgirl from using the girls’ restroom. I’m incredulous that the judge found that singling out a particular girl and denying her the right to use the same restroom as other girls “…did not itself harass [the girl] by its actions, and it was not deliberately indifferent to the harassment that [she] experienced from others…”
Ob/Gyns call for over-the-counter birth control.
Ireland may relax its draconian forced-birth laws in the wake of the horrific and avoidable death of Savita Halappanavar.
I can’t stop watching this fancy cat. “Walking dinners, but I don’t care for the cold.”
I love that the commercial features a gay couple (presumably anyway) without being obnoxious about it. It makes me happy that I live in a time when an insulation company can make a commercial that includes a gay couple (or guys who can be mistaken for one) without it being the major focus of the commercial or a big deal to pretty much anyone.