Celebrating New York State’s Legalizing Gay Marriage…

I was going to right something about the overwhelming vote in the New York State Legislature which has legalized Gay Marriage… but then I heard Jonathan Mann‘s Song-A-Day for today, and that about sums it up:

Nuff Said.

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It’s been a day of controversy over the Transportation Safety Administration

Isn’t it remarkable that people don’t want full-body scans showing them as stark naked or, as an alternative, having their crotches groped in search of terrorist bombs when getting ready to get on an airplane? It’s even more remarkable that it would apply to a six-year-old child or an 80-year old grandfather.

Jonathan Mann, who has been writing a song a day for the last couple of years, tackles the TSA’s body search in today’s song:

By the way, I support the boycott of flights ntil this is called off (although I’m sure there are a number of sexual perverts who think the experience is neat.)

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• US transport official, top senator defend ‘naked’ scanners (alternet.org)
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• TSA checkpoint groping (economist.com)