A few links (cute and not so cute)

[greenie_breizh]

Puppy cuteness from here to start:


I am absolutely, absolutely dying of the cute watching videos of Knut, a baby polar bear from the Berlin Zoo who was raised by one of his keepers. The first video is lots of really adorable photos, but I think the best video is this one, where you see him being fed and falling asleep and basically just being a ball of fuzzy cuteness. Stuff like that kinda makes me wonder if I'm doing the right thing with my life. I think I could be happy just taking care of animals and making sure they grow up ok and just that they're well taken care of.

Makes me happy I'm seeing Glacier tomorrow :)

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Less with the cute and more with the political,the Catholic Church and the Pope are being A-holes for Christmas by saying defending humanity against homosexuality and transgenderism is as important as saving the planet. Um, news flash, idiots: one leads to us DYING, the other one leads to the world changing (albeit, not to your liking) while we LIVE. Fucking morons. I love how no one asks them to justify why on earth it's so important to have clearly defined genders and why it's such a big deal to have blurry gender roles. Masculinity and feminity don't have anything to do with procreation, last time I checked.

In a less moronic move, California's state attorney general, Jerry Brown, has asked the CA Supreme Court to overturn Prop 8:

Proposition 8 must be invalidated because the amendment process cannot be used to extinguish fundamental constitutional rights without compelling justification," Brown's brief says. [...] Brown's brief acknowledged that the state is facing a constitutional crisis. Every branch of government--including the governor, a majority of state legislators, and the state's highest court--approves the rights of same-sex couples to marry, while a slim majority of voters have eliminated those rights. "We have a conflict between the amendment power (through voter initiatives) and the duty of the Supreme Court to protect minorities and safeguard liberty," Brown said.

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Not with the cute or the political, but with the funny to finish:

Every Fanfic Ever Written! Excerpt:

THE PWP (HET)

CHARACTER: I'm straight!
CHARACTER OF OPPOSITE GENDER: What a coincidence! So am I!
(They have sex.)

Comments

[hitori-toshiro.livejournal.com]

*dies of cuteness*
Ce sont des photos comme ça qui me donneraient presque envie de me reprendre un petit toutou...
... Si je n'habitais pas un petit appartement en pleine ville loin de tout grand parc/bois/whatever.

[greenie-breizh.livejournal.com]

Moi je ronge mon frein tant que je suis en apart' et surtout que je sais pas dans quel pays je serais dans 2 ans, mais il n'y a aucun doute, je vais craquer un jour ^^

[themegs.livejournal.com]

PUPPIES!! It hurts. I want a dozen of them.

Erin showed me the Pope thing the other night. It's so much bullshit. Aside from the obvious of how I feel from a GLBT perspective, it's ridiculous because procreation is not in any danger. We're doing quite enough of it. We do not have a shortage of people in the world. We actually do have enough resources and food for everyone but not the means or will to distribute it.

[greenie-breizh.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, having a dozen puppy would be heaven. But you'd have to be doing nothing else with your day but taking care of them and snuggling them.

I'm not entirely sure that our only problem with resources is that we can't distribute them, Westerners notably consume far too much to be sustainable at the scale of the planet... but the bottom line is, we're sure procreating fast enough at a global scale (but probably, according to these kinds of people, not in the right places). It's like a double-annoyance for me, it rubs me the wrong way from an LGBT perspective AND from an ecological perspective ^^

[themegs.livejournal.com]

Rumor has it that Frank Iero has 19 dogs and puppies right now. I just have no idea how that works. How you have have time to walk 19 dogs and how you ever have sex with 19 dogs running around. Being that he's Frank he might be putting everyone on that he has 19, but I can name 7 of them. So, still. 7!

I think consuming too much is part of not distributing it. Americans are used to eating way too much and they throw too much food away on top of that. They also eat a lot more meat than they need to. I don't have it any more but I did a paper in high school about how much land and grain is used for raising animals as meat, and I'm completely stupid on the numbers and details now but the point was that eating less meat is good for sustainability.