Ladies and gentlemen (and the rest of you), the new Katie Galaxy is up at katiegalaxy.com.
I'm particularly proud of this one, even if it is mostly in pin-up style. This exchange will also prove important to the storyline... one day. ;)

President Bush has endorsed the proposed amendment to change the Consitution to ban the recognition of gay marriage. It's not widely reported, but this amendment would also prevent gay couples from legally fighting for rights that are granted non-gay couples. The language used, despite what some are saying, closes many doors for gay couples and effectively ends any hope for recognition of our families that is on a par with 'normal' marriage.

I urge you to let your representatives know your thoughts on this issue, and I hope that many of those thoughts are for positive change for couples like us. It is, after all, this very issue [equal marriage rights] that forced us to leave you all.

The ACLU makes it easy for you to send your representatives a fax. We're hoping you all will do so now while the issue is hot and in discussion.
Send faxes via ACLU

Also, we'd love it if you visited our HRC 'Defend Equality' page and learn how you can help us fight discrimination. Just think how great it would be if we could come home one day?

Maggie & Sarah

PS - Trivia: The last amendment to be passed that took away rights was later repealed. Yep, the infamous Prohibition amendment. I'm not endorsing alcohol consumption here, but it's a shining example showing that Americans believe the Constitution was built to provide protections and rights, not deny them. Well, that and the fact that lots of Americans like a good beer after work.

The new Katie Galaxy is up. You can find it, strangely enough, at katiegalaxy.com.

It's a color job on the Mutants bi-fold I did ages ago (and has been a B&W t-shirt at the KG store for some time).
You have to click the pic to see the full-sized image.

Burma shave.

So I've made Weebl and Bob wallpaper based on the "Kenya" episode and the "Moon" episode. If you have not viewed their splendor please do so now. Think of the monkeys*. Won't someone think of the monkeys???

This is a plea to everyone who reads my blog to go vote here:

http://www.foxnews.com/
http://us.cnn.com/

The Fox poll is very sad looking (consider the source, of course... Fox is gonna draw the hysterical moralist crowd) and some more positive votes would certainly help. The CNN poll is a bit better but could still use more voices. These polls inevitably get quoted by politicians and columnists and opponents so your vote makes a difference. And, to be fair, no matter what your feelings, please vote.

Sending kids in America (especially little girls who'll have enough society-inflicted body image issues as it is) a message that breasts are shameful and must never be seen is no better than Muslim women being forced to cover their face. So all you self-righteous pompous prats who were deriding the burka or hijab as being backwards or uncivilised or barbaric, take a good look in the mirror. It's the same thing. Both things send a clear message that women and their bodies are shameful.

So get the fuck over it!
It was just a fucking breast (and it wasn't even the whole thing). The rest of the world has been looking at them for ages, and it ain't their repressed kids who are shooting up their schools. Sorry, but it's true. Put that in your pipe, kept out in the garage with the hidden Playboys, and smoke on it a while, Ward Cleaver. And if anyone else whines "ooooh, how am I supposed to explaaaain it to a chiiiild... they won't understaaaand..." It's a fucking breast! It's there to feed babies! It takes a grownup to make it a sexual issue. And how would you explain the Janet Jackson thing? You wouldn't have to. It wouldn't have happened if not for your hysterical moralism. If it weren't made out to be something shameful, it would have no shock value.

Jackson and Timberlake are to blame for using your hysteria to promote themselves. You have only yourselves to blame for everything else.

Hello. My name is Maggie and I'm fighting for truth, not belief.

"The fact of evolution is as well established as anything in science (as secure as the revolution of the earth around the sun), though absolute certainty has no place in our lexicon." Stephen Jay Gould - 'Darwinism Defined: The Difference Between Fact and Theory'

Lots of Creationists, the arch-nemesis of science in general and evolution in particular, like to go on about how evolution is "only" a theory. Well, as Mr. Gould (a man I regard as one of the brightest humans of our lifetime) explains above, this is how proper science is done. Everything is a theory. It allows for the furtherance of science, not the immediate closing and stagnation of dogma once you've reached something you like. Electricity? Thermodynamics? Theories both. But no one can deny that plugging their refrigerator into that electric socket results in their food being cooled (assuming, of course, that your fridge is in working order).

Gould has also remarked that just because a mob of parents wants to take something out of the schools doesn't mean they're qualified to make such a judgement; If a thousand parents say no to teaching evolution* in the schools, all they're doing is weakening their children's education for the theory of evolution has stood the test of real science. Science is not "pick and choose". And there's a great big world out there waiting to tell your child he or she is wrong when they discount evolution. As to those who argue that they are merely protecting their children, raising them as they think is best, should also cover the othe risde to that coin. They're dictating how every child in that system is taught. If their beliefs are at odd with science, they need to address that in their home, not in our nation's educational system. They are not qualified, no matter how large in large numbers, to make a judgement on the correctness of a scientific principal (unless the lot of them are qualified scientists, of course). But, people are very good at deluding themselves to avoid facing something that challenges their beliefs or intelligence or way of life. Very good at it. The world is 10,000 years old, dinosaurs were all docile herbivores (how else could they have peacefully ridden Noah's ark?) who lived with humans (humans who had an amazing ability to keep their bones out of the fossil record which contains the dinosaurs), it goes on and on. That the proponents of this rubbish call themselves "scientists" galls me to no end.

There have been many attempts to have evolution removed from US** schools and textbooks. Few in modern times have succeeded except in rural pockets where religious influence will not be denied. But the story that got me started on this is not about removing evolution from the curriculum. No, it's even sillier. They don't want to remove evolution, they merely want to remove the word. They are proposing to cut down some of the hostility from the religious side by calling evolution something else. I imagine many will think this passive-aggressive tactic sounds perfectly acceptable, but I ain't one of them. Dodging the issue like some pervert uncle that isn't discussed at the dining table or in front of company, is not going to help anyone. Evolution needs no watering down, even in name.

The Story

And now, so help me, I have to, for possibly the first time in my life, agree with something Bobby Franklin said; "It's stupid. It's like teaching gravity without using the word gravity." Amen, you close-minded little zealot.

** - This really is an American phenomenon. There are Creationists elsewhere in the world, but they're generally given as much credit as Scientologists and Moonies. Even the Pope says the [Catholic] Church has no beef with evolution and that it's pretty clear the earth is millions of years old, despite what one might believe the Bible says.