the world is your acorn

The Tennessee Guerilla Women blog sums up a recent poll conducted by/for some media organizations about the gay marriage issue. While a majority of Tennesseans (65%) are in favor of the amendment, 53% of democrats in the state do not.

The interesting points that the blog entry make concern media and government representation of people’s opinion. Why does everyone cater to right-wingers and the religious sector so much, even when the numbers don’t indicate the need to? As TGW says,

Yet more evidence that the roughly 97% of all Democratic lawmakers in this state - who are anti-gay marriage - do about as good a job representing their constituents as the Tennessean does covering the diversity of viewpoints in this city, county, state, nation and world.

At the same time, it is good to know that, despite what government officials and news publications will have us believe, the people may not be quite so scary.

Dealazon is a site which lists and updates sales and deals from amazon. It even has a feature for finding items to get you up to that $25 free shipping mark.

Save big at Dealazon [Lifehacker]

I know I already have a big girl’s grill in the backyard, but what if I want to grill on-the-go? What if I’m travelling or over at a friend’s house? I should still be able to fire up some hot coals, right? Right. This thing folds up like a briefcase for storage and transport, then opens up to a decent 42.5 x 26cm (how much is that in American?) cooking surface.
In case you’re still trying to figure out what to get me for my birthday.

BBQ Case, Taking Summer With You [Oh Gizmo!]
Picnic BBQ [I Want One of Those]