Tommy Karr

Category: News

  • “Girl Scout” Boycotting Cookies Because of Transgendered Girls

    UPDATE: A friend helped me find the following which clarifies the “not a Girl Scout” statement from Ms. Kalina. So the girl in the video IS a Girl Scout. Regardless, she’s an embarrassment to the Scouts and to humanity. “She meant that the transgender child ended up not joining the girl scouts. Remember a few…

  • FitBit Love: Check Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself

    Note: This is my personal review/response to the FitBit and I am in no way connected to the company. I’ve been trying to measure my health (at least my body’s shape, weight, etc) for some time and found it so cumbersome to calculate what I’ve accomplished.  I had tried manual systems on various websites and…

  • The GOP Debate I Want to See

    Imagine this scenario… just a full-on, high school wrestling match style debate with Christie as the referee.  And, of course, in my fantasy there are no GOP winners.

  • We the People: Greater Protection for Same-Sex Couples

    This past fall I added my name to a petition on the White House’s We the People site, asking for greater protection for same-sex couples.  Following is the reply I received today.  Thoughts? Greater Protections for Same-Sex Couples By Gautam Raghavan, Associate Director in the Office of Public Engagement We understand your interest in the petition…

  • Alabama Crimson Tide Fan’s Offensive Gay Bashing T-Shirt

    UPDATE: 4:24pm 1/4/12 Mr. Ivey replied to my email with the following: Mr. Adkins, I completely understand what you are saying. The site has been taken down. No shirts were ever produced and it was a misguided attempt at “getting back” at LSU fans for a shirt they created (using the same word) a couple…

  • Addie to the Rescue: Raising Awareness of Copyright Theft

    Addie Brownlee (Disclaimer: she’s a dear friend but I love and support her art regardless) is featured in a new PSA (see below) produced in partnership with MTV and carried out by the nonprofit National Crime Prevention Council, the folks who gave us McGruff the Crime Dog. The PSA is very revealing.  It puts to mind…

  • Really Herman? REALLY?

    Not only is this man unfit to lead the United States but his followers, at least those behind the Twitter account @caincan2012 are also ridiculous.  I shared a link to the Ben Armbruster’s Think Progress story Cain: It’s Not ‘Practical’ To Attack Iran Because It Has Mountains with the following comment via Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/wthomasadkins/status/136957208675102720 They…

  • Me bullying?? Surely you jest.

    I just got a reply on Twitter (see below) following my tweet about my post earlier today concerning Viki Knox, the New Jersey teacher who has poured her bigotry and hate-filled speech on the internet through Facebook and Twitter. The reply was from @homo_sexuality whose Twitter page reads fully as “Struggling with homo_sexuality”.  Well, @homo_sexuality,…

  • When Teachers Fail to Teach Tolerance

    UPDATE (9:45pm): According to the HRC Ms. Knox also uses Twitter to spew her vitriol.  According to their report, “New Jersey has the nation’s toughest anti-bullying law – Viki Knox has proven herself incapable of carrying out the law within her school.”  Good point!  This woman cannot be trusted to serve her students without bias…

  • Ten Things the Internet Could Have Helped Me Avoid in the 1980s

    1.  I would not have sung the wrong lyrics to “Oh, Sherrie” like an idiot. 2.  I would not have given up on that pen-pal program to a kid in France… to whom I never wrote a second letter because I lost his physical mailing address.  Sorry French kid. 3.  I would not have had…