what’s up with kbnky?

Think about it.

After posting about the evil attack from Karen Handel, it is good to hear MY president speak out against discrimination.

The head of the world’s most popular search engine urged college graduates on Monday to step away from the virtual world and make human connections.

Speaking at the University of Pennsylvania’s commencement, Google chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt told about 6,000 graduates that they need to find out what is most important to them — by living analog for a while.

“Turn off your computer. You’re actually going to have to turn off your phone and discover all that is human around us,” Schmidt said. “Nothing beats holding the hand of your grandchild as he walks his first steps.”

Click here to read the full story.

WTF?

A Canton Kmart on Marietta Highway will reopen after a deadly shooting Saturday.

Investigators are not elaborating on what led police to shoot and kill 65-year-old Raymond Charles Sweat inside the men’s restroom.

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UPDATE: This is now listed on the L.A. Times as an “archived” story.

I jumped the gun on this post. Damn!

So… it looks like Prop 8 is still in effect… for now.

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FUCKING AWESOME!

The California Supreme Court struck down the state’s ban on same-sex marriage Thursday in a broadly worded decision that would invalidate virtually any law that discriminates on the basis of sexual orientation.

The 4-3 ruling declared that the state Constitution protects a fundamental “right to marry” that extends equally to same-sex couples. It tossed a highly emotional issue into the election year while opening the way for tens of thousands of gay people to wed in California, starting as early as mid-June.

- excerpt from Los Angeles Times

Pat Robertson jumps back onto his “homosexuality is bad” soapbox, comparing gay marriage to bestiality, child molestation and pedophilia.

Click here to see the video clip.

Pat… get a fucking clue!

Forty-two percent of Americans now say same sex couples should be allowed to legally marry,with an additional 25% supporting civil unions.

CBS News/New York Times

Welcome Arlen!

Veteran Republican Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania switched parties Tuesday with a suddenness that seemed to stun the Senate, a moderate’s defection that pushed Democrats to within a vote of the 60 needed to overcome filibusters and enact President Barack Obama’s top legislative priorities.

Specter, 79 and seeking a sixth term in 2010, conceded bluntly that his chances of winning a Pennsylvania Republican primary next year were bleak in a party grown increasingly conservative. But he cast his decision as one of principle, rather than fueled by political ambition as spurned GOP leaders alleged.

“I have found myself increasingly at odds with the Republican philosophy and more in line with the philosophy of the Democratic Party,” he said at a news conference. He added, “I am not prepared to have my 29 year record in the United States Senate decided by the Pennsylvania Republican primary electorate.”

[excerpt from Associated Press]

I always chuckle to myself when I see the commercials on TV for FreeCreditReport.com and FREEtriplescore.com. Do people actually fall for this? Yes, it is unfair for these sites to have to word “free” in their name, but… don’t the viewers hear the disclaimers.

In fact, one of the web sites for these services has it is clearly spelled out…

ConsumerInfo.com, Inc. and Freecreditreport.com are not affiliated with the annual free credit report program. Under a new Federal law, you have the right to receive a free copy of your credit report once every 12 months from each of the three nationwide consumer reporting companies.

Anytime you hear the word FREE… step back and read the fine print.

You can receive a free credit report each year WITHOUT enrolment in ANY “credit monitoring service”.

So… if you want a FREE credit report, go to…

www.annualcreditreport.com

I tried Twitter.

I “tweeted” above the most mundane shit for about a week. Then… I thought… do I really want to be this connected.

No.

So… I stopped… and I have no desire to start again.

Still, I think that Twitter, along with other social media platforms, can (and do) impact how information is distributed.

Here’s a quote from Ashton Kutcher’s four minute YouTube rambling…

[It will make] a huge statement about social media. For one person to actually have the ability to broadcast to as many people as a major media network. I think sort of signifies the turning of the tide from traditional news outlets to social media outlets.