Thursday May 28 Reads

Good riddance to that dirtbag judge who thinks it is all women's fault they are raped.
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Obituary:  Playwright and longtime gay and AIDS activist Larry Kramer, who founded ACT-UP back in the 1980s during the height of the epidemic, has died.  He was 84 years old.

Good remembrance about him here:

When a famous person dies, it's normal to feel like you "knew" them, or at least had a personal connection of some kind. But when it comes to Larry Kramer, the playwright, novelist and activist who passed away Wednesday, I did have a sliver of a real-life relationship with him, thanks to a relative who died before I was born.


In 2011, Kramer's play "The Normal Heart," a lightly fictionalized account of his experiences as an early AIDS activist in New York City, opened a star-studded revival on Broadway. Jim Parsons, Lee Pace and other queer actors took on the principal roles.

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Dumb shit YouTuber decided to exploit a child for money, and then, when he proved too difficult to handle, gave him up.

Meanwhile, she likely made millions of dollars off her saga of international adoption.  What a piece of shit.
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It doesn't surprise me some shitheels are trying to stir shit up at the protests and try to cast blame on the protesters, including some cops:

Here’s video of an undercover cop in Minneapolis smashing windows while a member of the community tries to stop him https://t.co/OJKldIlcHD

— Dylan (@dyllyp) May 28, 2020

The murder of George Floyd was over an alleged counterfeit $20 bill. That was worth cops killing him.


Meanwhile, some far right nitwits who call themselves "bugaloos" are doing their best to stir up shit in hopes of creating a (un)civil war.
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Genetic genealogy has solved another cold case, this one from 1970:

The newlywed mother of two was found down the side of an embankment on Highway 128, near the Boulder County/Jefferson County line, by two CDOT workers. She had been bound, sexually assaulted, strangled and shot.

The perpetrator, Paul L. Martin, just missed getting caught. He died last year.

At least the case is solved and the family can finally know who did it.
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