Star Trek: The Exhibition

[from my Geekdad post] As members of the local Mars Society and NSS chapters, my family was invited to a “friends and family” preview of Star Trek: The Exhibition at the San Diego Air & Space Museum. It’s an exhibit we had intended to see anyway, but seeing it on opening day with a bunch [...]

Posted by Chris in Fun, Geekdad, Science fiction on June 27th, 2008 | Comments Off

gettin’ hitched, San Diego style

I haven’t had time to post any of the California marriage awesomeness lately, but I couldn’t pass this Union Tribune article up: San Diego County issued a record 230 marriage licenses today and performed 144 wedding ceremonies on the first day gay and lesbian couples were allowed to marry in San Diego. County officials did [...]

Posted by Chris in Law, News, Sexuality on June 18th, 2008 | Comments Off

“all the same people, all of us”

With warmth and humor, Anna Quindlen, writing for Newsweek, tells it like it is in The Same People Here’s what I don’t understand: is there so much love and commitment in the world that we can afford, as a society, to be contemptuous of some portion of it? If two women in white want to [...]

Posted by Deb in Culture on June 3rd, 2008 | 4 Comments »