Glenn Hauman: View From Above

• http://ow.ly/48Tf6 The Milgram experiments showed compliance rates went way up when surrounded by actors behaving a given way. Radio… #

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• Electrical current to the brain can get people to think different http://ow.ly/45FeS Wow, iPhones really can make you think different. #
• Why Some People Choose Anxiety http://ow.ly/45FEB They don't like it, but they need it. (No, Twitter follower, I'm not talking about you.) #
• SF Writers Advise Homeland Security: http://ow.ly/45kSp Puts that illegal alien probelm in a whole new light… #
• Congressman From New Jersey to Save Human Race http://ow.ly/45PLW And if you think this gets him any respect in the House… #
• Theologian: Facebook and modern technology are killing churches http://ow.ly/45m15 And lotteries replace the promise of afterlife riches. #
• Science fiction teaches governments—and citizens—how to understand the future of technology. – By Robert J. Sawyer http://ow.ly/45Vg7 #
• RT @jefftrexler: Fear of death may trigger conformity, social connection http://tinyurl.com/64mlcyz #
• Stuck at a raised drawbridge right next to a dead skunk. Aaaargh. #
• If you want to do something for my birthday, vote for my Idea For Good, then RT and spread the word. http://ow.ly/46VQL #
• Caffeine: A User's Guide to Getting Optimally Wired : Developing Intelligence http://ow.ly/47LuU AAAAAAH! Gimme the jitters, baby! Moremore! #
• Boomers Find 401(k) Plans Come Up Short http://ow.ly/47L7B Of COURSE. How could they expect stocks to stay high when everyone sells at once? #
• Has Pennsylvania Found the Cure for Unemployment? http://ow.ly/47Lgx #
• Monsey Mother & Son (probably Orthodox Jews) Accused Of Scamming 75 People For $10 Million In Affinity Ponzi Scheme http://ow.ly/48miL #
• Amazingly, they get through this entire article without once mentioning Charlie Sheen. http://ow.ly/48rGM #
• Is Jersey City a Suburb? Joel Kotkin Thinks So. http://ow.ly/48zmy He also thinks a dog has five legs, because he calls a tail a leg. #

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• Is Jersey City a Suburb? Joel Kotkin Thinks So. http://ow.ly/48zmy He also thinks a dog has five legs, because he calls a tail a leg. #

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• Has Pennsylvania Found the Cure for Unemployment? http://ow.ly/47Lgx #
• Monsey Mother & Son (probably Orthodox Jews) Accused Of Scamming 75 People For $10 Million In Affinity Ponzi Scheme http://ow.ly/48miL #
• Amazingly, they get through this entire article without once mentioning Charlie Sheen. http://ow.ly/48rGM #

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• Stuck at a raised drawbridge right next to a dead skunk. Aaaargh. #
• If you want to do something for my birthday, vote for my Idea For Good, then RT and spread the word. http://ow.ly/46VQL #
• Caffeine: A User's Guide to Getting Optimally Wired : Developing Intelligence http://ow.ly/47LuU AAAAAAH! Gimme the jitters, baby! Moremore! #
• Boomers Find 401(k) Plans Come Up Short http://ow.ly/47L7B Of COURSE. How could they expect stocks to stay high when everyone sells at once? #

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• Electrical current to the brain can get people to think different http://ow.ly/45FeS Wow, iPhones really can make you think different. #
• Why Some People Choose Anxiety http://ow.ly/45FEB They don't like it, but they need it. (No, Twitter follower, I'm not talking about you.) #
• SF Writers Advise Homeland Security: http://ow.ly/45kSp Puts that illegal alien probelm in a whole new light… #
• Congressman From New Jersey to Save Human Race http://ow.ly/45PLW And if you think this gets him any respect in the House… #
• Theologian: Facebook and modern technology are killing churches http://ow.ly/45m15 And lotteries replace the promise of afterlife riches. #
• Science fiction teaches governments—and citizens—how to understand the future of technology. – By Robert J. Sawyer http://ow.ly/45Vg7 #
• RT @jefftrexler: Fear of death may trigger conformity, social connection http://tinyurl.com/64mlcyz #

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The organ donation from 9-year-old Tucson shooting victim Christina-Taylor Green has saved the life of a child on the East Coast, The Arizona Republic reports.

As always: 110 Stories.

Let’s try and remember all the victims this time around– the Muslims and atheists too, please.

Ashley Todd.

And that’s a shame, because she really should have a doctor look at that cut on her cheek.

Eight years ago today, I found myself at a wedding at Emory University, having just offered my congratulations to the happy couple, when I overheard the mellifluous tones of George Takei saying to the bride’s brother, “You have to understand… this is normal.”

For years, I’ve marveled at the sort of life I lead where I find myself being told what’s normal by Mr. Sulu.

But as I think about it today, I begin to realize some of what he was saying, and what he was hoping for.

Here he was, watching some of his friends getting married– and he couldn’t get married to the person he loved, the person he’d been with for fourteen years. It was four years before he went seriously public about being gay, but most people who knew him knew his status.

And getting married to the person you love was simply the normal thing to do.

It would take another seven years before he could legally get married to Brad Altman. And then his marriage was declared illegal by California’s Prop 8.

So today, eight years later, the California Supreme Court ruled that no one else could get a homosexual marriage in California. And yet, George’s marriage, and the other 18,000 marriages are still allowed to stand.

Which, sadly, is a legal status about as far from normal as you can get.

All George wants is for him, his friends, family, heck, everyone, to enjoy a normal happy life. Why are so many people trying to prevent him and his friends from having it?