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Dan Savage has a wicked funny post ripping in to Garrison Keillor's horrible piece in Slate.

No, I'm not going to link to Slate, those fuckers can suck it for not publishing relevant info about Mr. Keillor.

Dan, you rock.

tonight I got a call with a spoofed caller ID inviting me to participate in Tom Campbell's telephone town hall meeting where they would talk about health care reform.

I've participated in telephone town hall meetings before, notably with Xavier Becerra, my representative.

Unlike previous meetings, this "town hall" didn't offer any options to leave a question with an operator or to pose a question to Mr. Campbell. Therefore, this wasn't a participatory event and was merely an infomercial for his campaign for governor of California.

Sorry Tom, but first you spoof caller ID. Then you claim you are having a town hall meeting but don't give anyone the chance to participate.

Two Strikes, Tom Campbell.

Go have a party with your libertarian friends.

The following 39 democrats have completely failed to help the American people and have caved in to heavy money from the health industry lobby.

Their vote is a matter of public record.

Harry Teague
John Tanner
Gene Taylor
Heath Shuler
Ike Skelton
Mike Ross
Collin C. Peterson
Glenn Nye
Scott Murphy
Betsy Markey
Eric Massa
Michael E. McMahon
Walt Minnick
Charlie Melancon
Jim Marshall
Jim Matheson
Mike McIntyre
Larry Kissell
Suzanne Kosmas
Frank Kratovil Jr.
Dennis J. Kucinich
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin
Tim Holden
Parker Griffith
Bart Gordon
Chet Edwards
Artur Davis
Lincoln Davis
Travis Childers
Ben Chandler
John Boccieri
Bobby Bright
Dan Boren
John Barrow
Brian Baird
Rick Boucher
Allen Boyd
Jason Altmire
John Adler

Faith at That is so Queer has put together a list of El Pollo Loco restaurants owned by Roland Spongberg - a man who donated $6000 to the yes on 8 campaign. This guy owns quite a few franchises under the name WKS Restaurant Group.

Personally, I'll be boycotting the one at Sunset Junction which was pretty much the only one I went to.

For a full list, please check out her list.

Browne Molyneux over at laeastside.com has a thoughtful post about racism and the fallout from the passage of California's Proposition 8 - especially as shown in the LA Times.

People, please keep in mind that the exit poll that showed black voters favoring proposition 8 by 70% to 30% only asked 224 black voters, and I bet they were all from one poll. Do you think that is enough of a sample size to extrapolate to all black voters in the state? I sure don't. Especially when compared to pre-election polls which had less than 50% of black voters in favor of prop 8.

Please, don't be racist. Please, don't fall victim to the race-baiting that the right wing is surely going to play up. We are all minorities. We must stand together.

If we must blame any one group for the passage of prop 8, how about the white republicans who make up so much of the voting population in california.