Re:Generator Magazine

And I am. Tentatively.

Legal experts are opining that it “immediately transformed the national debate over the issue.” And a National Review piece coming out in favor of state-approved same-sex marriages adds some weight to that claim.

Is this the turning point? I hope so. Will that bear out in six months or a year? That I’m less certain of. Already, organizations on the religious right are drafting plans to disenfranchise a sexual minority whose very existence makes their skin crawl. They will do whatever they can to achieve this end. If the Proposition 8 repeal and the placid existence of equal marriage laws in other states has changed the climate enough, perhaps there won’t have to be a years-long, emotionally-charged battle ahead.

We’ll see.

And gay couples of New York? Have a good weekend. No, have a tremendous weekend.

Fire up the SUV you’ve kept in your garage since 2007 because no one wanted to take it off your hands, gather up the kids and take a summertime road trip. Live a little! Refuelling every 60 miles or so won’t be so onerous now that gas is only $3.60 a gallon…

Newt Gingrich, seer? In his vision of the future, the one-time conservative superstar envisions a future so bleak, black people will vote Republican against Obama.

He may be uninspiring to a nation of voters, but with evangelical leaders, at least, Tim Pawlenty comes out on top.

It’s not that Sarah Palin wanted to quit her PAC-funded family vacation. She had jury duty… Oh, and by the way, she totally didn’t quit. She’s coming back, pinkie swear!

Texas governor Rick Perry is still ‘weeks away’ from deciding if he’s going to run for president. Weeks of testing the waters with racially-themed jokes about alcoholic beverages, no doubt.

Michele Bachmann makes Matt Tiabbi very nervous.

Pollster Nate Silver gives Mitt Romney a 40% chance of winning his party’s nomination.

That, and their fear of urban people, which they didn’t have to think about when surrounded by suburbanites.

Is your heroin habit making it impossible for you to pay your bills or even recall you have bills at all? Do you wish there was a generic alternative that wouldn’t figuratively cost you an arm and a leg? New, from the makers of codeine, paint thinner, gasoline, hydrochloric acid, iodine and red phosphorus, is Krododil.

Krodokodil is the home-made heroin substitute that’s sweeping Russia’s addict community. Its delightful name comes from the Russian word for crocodile, which it gets because of nearly impossible to hide side effects, such as… such as… You know what? I just vomited in my mouth a little, so I’ll let Death and Taxes explain this one to you while I find the nearest sink.

The name krokodil comes from its trademark side effect: scaly green skin like a crocodile around the injection site. A quick search for that will bring up graphic images of people with swollen faces, exposed bones and muscles and skin rotting off on any given body part.

Krokodil: For addicts who think shooting regular heroin is for pussies afraid to take real risk! Krokodil: The drug that literally eats away at you! No, there really is no positive spin one can put on that scary, scary drug. I’m just glad we live in America, where imported Afghani heroin kills us the good old fashioned way.