on Busted! at 00:42 01/04/2009

IL's new drunk driving law is that you have to get a breath-alcohol ignition device installed on your car after your first offense...so if he wants to keep driving in IL, then he has to get it installed on HIS dime and pay monthly fees to the state for monitoring and renting the device. Bet he'll look *so* cool when he has to do the breath test every time before drives anywhere...

on Separated At Birth at 20:12 11/14/2008

dude, pick on adults all you want, but leave kids alone. that's just low.

on Dear Canada at 15:52 11/11/2008 as a reply on the comment by breakage

I don't think there's anything that could have "provoked" or warranted an attack like this. The article does reference that the brainiac came at the ladies saying something like "which one of you talked to my boy?!" (like he would catch "the gay" from them or something?!) and it doesn't really go into what preceded it. @ CanadianCutie9, I don't think that the majority of canadians are like this guy. He's the worst of the worst homophobes. And I'm encouraged to hear your community is forward thinking and accepting. But in my very short time in Canada, I encountered more homophobes than those who were accepting of gays...the caveat would the U of T folks who like most edumacated types are a bit more liberal. Same thing applied to Phoenix, AZ - most people outside of the ASU community were highly homophobic and backwards thinking and bigoted in many ways. (I lived there for 9 years so I got a good [or rather bad] taste for what the "tolerance" levels there were.) Unfortunately, there's arseholes everywhere, regardless of country/nationality/region.

on Dear Canada at 15:37 11/11/2008 as a reply on the comment by Blueyz133

um, I'm actually an american, so I'm not dissing my own country. (I've been known to do so, but just not in that post! )As I said before, I am just trying to say that just because a country allows for gay marriages it doesn't mean that gay rights are supported by the citizens. Civil rights laws were passed here in the US before they had the popular support of US citizens, and that seems to be the case with gay marriage/rights in Canada with the people I've come across. The majority of people I encountered were homophobic to some degree, some more than others. I'm not saying they'd all jump a lesbian or a gay guy just for shiggles, just making the point that sometimes the government (here & in Canada) is ahead of the majority of its citizens when it comes to civil rights legislation...

on Dear Canada at 15:30 11/11/2008 as a reply on the comment by SugarSpunSister

I'm not judging all canadians by two people, take a chill pill! And I'm not speaking for anyone but myself. There's not enough room here for me to write a full novella on all the homophobes I've met in the US & Canada (and there's been many unfortunately), I just used those two winners as an example of the people I encountered during my time there. They were borderline violent homophobes and probably would have crossed that border with a bit too much beer in 'em. I was just trying to make the point that while the govt is seemingly liberal on the topic of gay marriage & the like, there are still many many people even in "liberal" cities like Toronto who are still backwards thinking. I'm not trying to imply that all canadians are like that, just that it's not surprising that people like that exist there in the seemingly gay-friendly Canada or anywhere else - it's disgusting and wrong, but just not surprising.