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August 12, 2007
The Week in Weeklies
By week's end, LA is littered with dozens of free rags. LAist reads the weeklies so you don't have to. If there's anything we missed, let us know, or better yet drop it in the comments section below.
LA Weekly reviewed the gaffe-filled Q & A between Democratic presidential hopefuls and Hollywood gays. While not one candidate came out clearly in support of gay marriage, Bill Richardson slipped so hard as to insinuate that gayness is an opt-in lifestyle. Why'd they even show up? Oh yeah, $$$$$.
Also, Jessica Koslow interviewed Chuck D on the 20th anniversary of Public Enemy. Chuck D managed to compare PE to both the Beatles and the Stones -- and when it comes to the rap game, little argument can be made.
Cartoon reprinted with permission of Mr. Fish.
The best cover illustration of the week comes from Citybeat's Jordan Crane, for a story on prison overcrowding. Unfortunately, the Web version of this went unedited for syntax and is difficult to read (don't forget to straighten those apostrophes and quot marks and touch up them emdashes, kids).
Downtown News' Jon Regardie wonders if Summer 2007 will be remembered as a Summer of Scandal or just another Summer of Love.
OC Weekly comes through this week with comprehensive ComicCon coverage from a geek and a n00b and a Lollapalooza slideshow.
Pasadena Weekly looks at the protections and dangers journalists face in the line of duty worldwide, in addition to a few instances locally where intimidation has gone a bit too far. Now, if only they'd lose those annoying double-green underlined sponsored ad links, it'd be easier to take all their content as seriously as this.
The Garden Grove Journal cried foul on a fake news story regarding one Damien Rollins, a 12-year-old Stanton boy who "ran away from home when his parents took away his World of Warcraft game." WoW. And if that's not enough, a hairy-chested Elvis impersonator graces the weekly's front page.
Worried about our parks? This week's Beverly Hills Weekly is devoted to controversy and issues surrounding proposals to renovate Roxbury Park.
The biweekly
The Malibu Times (registration required) profiled former Assemblywoman Fran Pavley, one of the nation's environmental experts and "rock stars." Also, an update on the ongoing rebuilding effort following January's Malibu Road fire.
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Just for the sake of argument, so what if homosexuality is a choice instead of genetic? The Constitution grants each citizen the same rights and equal protection of law whether they consciously or innately choose to be with a person of either gender. You don't get more rights if you're genetically predisposed to one orientation and you don't get less if you choose to be another. It's a false choice that, ironically, feeds right into the right-wing concept of being gay as a disease (and, thus, curable). Also resulting in the inevitable stupid argument "Well why would anyone in this society *choose* to be gay?!" Who cares? Nobody's business if they did anyway.
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Likewise, people *do* choose their religion. And people are granted more rights and protections to people who choose religion.
For example have you ever seen a fire marshal shut down a church service?
Have you ever seen a kid get kicked out of school for taking too many religious holidays off?
Yet clubs, sometimes half the size of big churches are to jump through hoops to have people and music together in a building. Likewise you try to take 8 days off at work or at school because its important to you as a person, without an excuse of religion and see how much friction you encounter.
I'm lucky, I'm a religious man, but I don't think that it's fair to non-believers that they are given fewer rights than people who choose to believe in God.
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Didn't Kucinich and Gravel both state that they support the legalization of gay marriage?
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I think Chuck D. actually compared RUN DMC to the Beatles, and PE to the Stones.