29 Jun 2005

California Supreme Court upholds Domestic Partner Law

House Blenders: “Radical” Russ is your barista for the next few days while Pam is on vacation for her anniversary. (San Francisco, California) Gays and lesbians won a major legal victory Wednesday when the California Supreme Court let stand a new law granting registered domestic partners many of the same

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29 Jun 2005

Ten Commandments fight shifts to Boise

House Blenders: “Radical” Russ is your barista for the next few days while Pam is on vacation for her anniversary. I have worn away my keyboard lettering going rounds on the issue of the Christian Ten Commandments as a publicly-supported display of reverence. So it is interesting to me how

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29 Jun 2005

Stella lost her groove

Angela Bassett & Taye Diggs in How Stella Got Her Groove Back House Blenders: “Radical” Russ is your barista for the next few days while Pam is on vacation for her anniversary. SAN FRANCISCO – Author Terry McMillan has filed for divorce from the man who inspired the 1996 novel

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29 Jun 2005

Why did the tiger attack Roy Horn? Cuz it's a friggin' tiger!

Roy Horn and Montecore the tiger in happier times House Blenders: “Radical” Russ is your barista for the next few days while Pam is on vacation for her anniversary. From MSNBC.com: LAS VEGAS – The tiger-was-hungry theory was ruled out. And there was no proof that the animal was deliberately

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29 Jun 2005

The Bush Speech Drinking Game

President Chimpy wants to remind us that our War in Iraq is completely based on our justifiable response to a particular event in recent American history… how odd, I can’t remember which event that was… House Blenders: “Radical” Russ is your barista for the next few days while Pam is

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29 Jun 2005

Oregon Civil Unions Bill passes committee, heads to full Senate

Will Oregon’s Richard Raymen & Steven Hansen get some measure of legal protection for their marriage? Not if Hillsboro Senator Charles Starr has anything to say about it! House Blenders: “Radical” Russ is your barista for the next few days while Pam is on vacation for her anniversary. In the

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29 Jun 2005

The American Taliban not happy with the SCOTUS Ten Commandments decisions

In a 5-4 decision, the court ruled that we needn’t eviscerate the 1st Amendment to satisfy the Religious Reich quite yet… the tattered 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th, 9th, and 10th Amendments were unavailable for comment. House Blenders: “Radical” Russ is your barista for the next few days while Pam is

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29 Jun 2005

Who let this guy stir the coffee?

American. Male. Straight. Lily-White. Opinionated. Proud Member of the Reality-Based Community. Some of you are probably waking up for your first caffeinated rush of Pam’s House Blend. “Zoinks!” you exclaim, “why is Jeff Gannon’s bald head peering at me?” After shaking your head and refocusing, you realize “that’s not Jeff

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23 Jun 2005

Hey, nice place you got here…

Hello, House Blenders. It’s “Radical” Russ. I’m just performing a test to let Pam know I’m here. She’ll tell you why later, I suppose. We now return you to your House Blend, already in progress.

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