Imagine my surprise, when I picked up the phone and I hear, "Hi, this is Mike Huckabee.  I've got a few questions to ask you."

Last night I participated in Equality California's phonebanking to identify voters who haven't yet made up their minds about which way they're voting on the issue come November.

The atmosphere was exciting and promising.  And the collective results of the calls were encouraging, to say the least.

KABC-TV reported the results of a poll of 500 California adults and the results validate a recent Field Poll.  Support was sweeping, crossing race/ethnicity, age and gender.

On the heals of California's Supreme Court reversing the ban on same-sex marriage, the state may be poised to become the first to designate an annual day to honor a gay-rights pioneer.

On Monday, May 19th, the California Assembly passed AB 2567, by a vote of 45-23, with no Republican support. The bill was introduced by Mark Leno (AD-13) and would designate every May 22 as Harvey Milk Day, encouraging schools to conduct "suitable commemorative exercises."  Milk was born May 22, 1930 and would be 78 tomorrow.

According to a joint study released today by the Zoological Society of London, in conjunction with the World Wildlife Fund and the Global Footprint Network, animal populations are declining at historic rates since 1970 and - it's our fault

News just hit!

Just minutes ago, the California Supreme Court published their opinion affirming equal protection under the law for it's gay and lesbian citizens, ruling that marriage between only a man and a woman is against the state constitution by infringing on the fundamental right to marry and denying the right to privacy.

The ruling is found here

More Matthew Popes.

Matthew is a senior at Shawnee Mission East High School in Prairie Village, Kansas.

He's on the cheerleading squad.  He's popular.  You'd think that being gay and out would preclude the acceptance.

But he's the homecoming king of the class of 2008.

I don't have anything newsworthy to say.  I just want to tell you what I did tonight.

Tonight I joined, long overdue, another movement for change.  I donated for the first time to the Obama campaign.  Handing over $100 wasn't so much exciting as maybe a feeling I was making a statement - to the Obama campaign as well as the Clinton campaign.

My Congressman, democrat Brad Sherman, is having another town hall meeting tomorrow afternoon.  I plan to attend.  I've got ideas of what to ask should I get the opportunity (there is a question/answer period in his town hall meetings).  I'm writing here to get ideas that could be better than my own.

I diaried last night about my co-worker, Eddie Sotelo, who is being credited by the media for getting such a high turnout at the Los Angeles immigrant protest march last weekend.

That diary is here: http://www.dailykos.com/...

I work at a radio station in Los Angeles and today I was told today that one of my co-workers, Eddie Sotelo, is being interviewed live on CNN tomorrow (Wednesday) morning, 9am eastern time, 6am pacific time.

I had the opportunity to ask a question of my congressman, Brad Sherman, democrat representing the San Fernando Valley, at a town hall he organized over the weekend.

I participated in the DNC's Supreme Court briefing conference call with Harry Reid.

My quickly scribbled notes in the extended entry.

WARNING:  My first story ever.  Hope I did it right.