OK, granted. :)

I'll just close with a really poignant statement Gandhi once made: "Can't we all just be the change we wish to see in the world?"

Nah, google it.

Sweet, sweet happiness is restored. Thanks dude.

Wait. Who are you, and what did you do with my Anonymous Coward? Please give him/her back at once.

Thanks for the long and cogent response. We will agree on some things and disagree on others, but I genuinely appreciate your engagement here. Cheers!

Sorry, my dear AC. It doesn't really matter whether you want to quibble about whether Emanuel's public statement amounted to efforts/actions/etc. The alderman's actions that Emanuel was tacitly supporting were so utterly and obviously illegal under our constitution that this whole debate we're having is an exercise in silliness. I grant your point that the alderman took the action, and Emanual made a public statement in support of it. So what? I lump them both in the "Irish need not apply" camp.

You can boycott Mozilla if you want. Personally I don't think it's really fair nor what Brendan Eich would want people to do. I'm solidly in the Rodney King camp: "Can't we all just get along?"

I agree with you that rich, white, heterosexual men are not typically persecuted in our society, which is great for rich, white, heterosexual men. However, when it does happen, it is not okay. That is all, thank you for playing, my dear AC.

I disagree, since Emanuel was speaking as mayor and giving tacit approval to the alderman's actions. That puts Emanuel on the "Irish need not apply" side. We can argue about whether such speech constitutes "working" or not. If speech isn't working, then I'm afraid mayors don't do very much work. :p

That may be true. But whenever I post a link, it is not with an expectation that people will either blindly believe, or blindly disbelieve it. I expect people to use these links to just become aware of stuff and discuss further. If you never look at stories covered by conservative media, then you will probably remain unaware of many stories that might otherwise enrich and inform your worldview. (Wow, look at me lecturing the AC.)

Whatever.

OK, I can understand the "Flamebait" mod, I get it. My post reads like provocative satire, but it's also unfortunately true. What part of it is not true, O Gentle Reader?

Congress needs to establish a commission of inquiry to help us identify people who don't agree with gay marriage, so they can be outed and ostracized. You know the routine: "Are you, or have you ever been, a conservative/orthodox/fundamentalist Christian, Muslim, or Jew?"

As we find these scumbags, we can work to deny them the right to start businesses in our cities like Rahm Emmanuel did in Chicago. Some of them are artisans: we can attempt to commission artistic works in conflict with their beliefs, and sue them into oblivion when they refuse. We can pressure them to resign from their jobs.

As recent Obama voters, it's not like we're huge hypocrites or anything. Please understand that the Democratic party is about democracy -- that's why we rejoice that California's popularly-voted Proposition 8 was overturned by a few activist judges. And we're about tolerance -- that's why we're trying to drive Christians, Muslims, and Jews out of public life by destroying their ability to hold jobs or participate in commerce.

(See also this.)

I am sure it is very important and fulfilling for him. For him it is Stuff that Matters. However, it is not News for Nerds.

With that said, a Slashdot that didn't post irrelevant junk so we could complain about it would hardly be Slashdot anymore, so there is that.

Amazon should assign a junior engineer to personally be responsible to search/scrape the web for leaked keys, and privately contact the owners of those accounts. That would make for good PR.

How about feminist studies in universities. Is that narrow enough to be useful? Good grief.