hahaha what? SFist is now solely based on reporting news from new york? i guess their redesign reverted them to the original gothamist template or something? weird.
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sfist fail
December 29, 2008v.e.g.a.
December 23, 2008riots in greece photos
December 19, 2008
here are some pretty amazing photos of the riots currently going down in greece as a result of the murder of 15 year old Alexander Grigoropoulos by greek police.
via boston.com
solar winds…
December 18, 2008
“The Earth’s magnetic field has been found to have two large holes that are making Earth’s surface vulnerable to solar winds. Despite what scientists originally thought, these holes allow 20 times the normal amount of solar particles through when they are facing away from the sun. This is the opposite of what the scientists had first speculated.”
so the earth is now succumbing the the relentless attacks of solar fucking winds! apparently these are disruptive and cause power grid outages and all kinds of other cool things. you are now aware that we live in a hawkwind song. this is awesome! y/n?
ludicra/krallice at thee parkside
December 16, 2008pics when i fill up this outdated camera and put them on a CD. old. shool.
cracked out on rss, blissed out on this because it’s been raining and hailing (and, um… snowing?) all day here in SF.
sigh
abruptum?
halloween hooligans
December 16, 2008
crazy night!
this is super late but i just found it. i don’t know who took this, but it rules! friends…
ghoul, mind of asian, voetsek at burnt ramen
November 25, 2008
ghoul at ramen november 23, 08
ghoul at ramen november 23, 08
ghoul at ramen november 23, 08
GHOUL
MIND OF ASIAN
that was most likely the best show i’ve ever been to, aside from slayer in seattle. ghoul got onstage and immedately started hitting everything with axes and screaming drunkenly about how we were all fucking nerds. mind of asian is my new favorite thrash band, super hyper, psychotic and fast, and it doesn’t hurt at all that they’re cute sort of preppy hipster looking asian girls playing fierce thrash. emily, liz, and i were i think literally the smallest people at the whole show and at the front, plus they filled it to about twice the fire code limit if i guessed, so none of us can walk and are covered with bruises today. smashed to pieces by fat teenagers and my phone got killfucked too. fucking brutal! no one gets out of a good metal show safe.
ghoul tonight!
November 23, 2008
Lyrics | Ghoul lyrics – Forbidden Crypts lyrics
the best the best the best the best the best! plus mind of asian has two hot girls! i’ll try to get some good flicks.
hipster batman
November 18, 2008
“Great, now our tax dollars will be spent cleaning up after the graffiti vandals. That is certainly better than spending the money on books or something for the kids attending Horace Mann. Yep this is a great thing. Good that Mission Mission is giving it attention and encouraging it.”
“that doesn’t qualify as graffiti (see banksy.) this is just mindless, shitty vandalism.”
“No distinction between boring tags and fun stuff like Hipster Batman and Ribity? Why, if there were no Ribity, there’d be no Mission Mission. And then we’d all be getting real work done right now.”
yuppies are so cute when they pretend to know about graffiti! at least allan is in our corner.
via missionmission
link.
prop 8 is invalid
November 14, 2008It shouldn’t have even been on the ballot.
Suckas!
Legal Groups File Lawsuit Challenging Proposition 8, Should It Pass:
Legal Papers Claim Initiative Procedure Cannot Be Used To Undermine the Constitution’s Core Commitment To Equality For Everyone
(San Francisco, CA, November 5, 2008) — The American Civil Liberties Union, Lambda Legal and the National Center for Lesbian Rights filed a writ petition before the California Supreme Court today urging the court to invalidate Proposition 8 if it passes. The petition charges that Proposition 8 is invalid because the initiative process was improperly used in an attempt to undo the constitution’s core commitment to equality for everyone by eliminating a fundamental right from just one group, lesbian and gay Californians.
Proposition 8 also improperly attempts to prevent the courts from exercising their essential constitutional role of protecting the equal protection rights of minorities. According to the California Constitution, such radical changes to the organizing principles of state government cannot be made by simple majority vote through the initiative process, but instead must, at a minimum, go through the state legislature first.
The California Constitution itself sets out two ways to alter the document that sets the most basic rules about how state government works. Through the initiative process, voters can make relatively small changes to the constitution. But any measure that would change the underlying principles of the constitution must first be approved by the legislature before being submitted to the voters. That didn’t happen with Proposition 8, and that’s why it’s invalid.
“If the voters approved an initiative that took the right to free speech away from women, but not from men, everyone would agree that such a measure conflicts with the basic ideals of equality enshrined in our constitution. Proposition 8 suffers from the same flaw. It removes a protected constitutional right here, the right to marry, not from all Californians, but just from one group of us,” said Jenny Pizer, a staff attorney with Lambda Legal. “That’s too big a change in the principles of our constitution to be made just by a bare majority of voters.”
“A major purpose of the constitution is to protect minorities from majorities. Because changing that principle is a fundamental change to the organizing principles of the constitution itself, only the legislature can initiate such revisions to the constitution,” added Elizabeth Gill, a staff attorney with the ACLU of Northern California.
The lawsuit was filed today in the California Supreme Court on behalf of Equality California and 6 same-sex couples who did not marry before Tuesday’s election but would like to be able to marry now.
The groups filed a writ petition in the California Supreme Court before the elections presenting similar arguments because they believed the initiative should not have appeared on the ballot, but the court dismissed that petition without addressing its merits. That earlier order is not precedent here.
“Historically, courts are reluctant to get involved in disputes if they can avoid doing so,” said Shannon Minter, Legal Director of NCLR. “It is not uncommon for the court to wait to see what happens at the polls before considering these legal arguments. However, now that Prop 8 may pass, the courts will have to weigh in and we believe they will agree that Prop 8 should never have been on the ballot in the first place.”
This would not be the first time the court has struck down an improper voter initiative. In 1990, the court stuck down an initiative that would have added a provision to the California Constitution stating that the “Constitution shall not be construed by the courts to afford greater rights to criminal defendants than those afforded by the Constitution of the United States.” That measure was invalid because it improperly attempted to strip California’s courts of their role as independent interpreters of the state’s constitution.
In a statement issued earlier today, the groups stated their conviction, which is shared by the California Attorney General, that the state will continue to honor the marriages of the 18,000 lesbian and gay couples who have already married in California.
A copy of the statement as well as the writ petition filed today is available at:
http://www.aclu.org/lgbt
http://www.lambdalegal.org and
http://www.nclrights.org
