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Gay student in Ohio beating caught on tape

A gay student at Union-Scioto High School in Chillicothe, Ohio was brutally beaten this week by another student for being gay. Class members watched as the bully waited for the student to arrive in the classroom, grabbed him, pushed him to the ground and punched him in the face several times.

The bully was suspended for 3 days. That’s it. The mother of the victim is pursuing criminal charges.

The bully had harassed the gay student (who has not been identified) on Facebook a few days earlier, writing “You fag. Check out the definition of a fag.”

Equality Ohio Executive Director, Ed Mullen, explains that the incident serves as a reminder that Ohio’s anti-bullying law must be strengthened and specific protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth be included. Mullen says: “All students, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity, have the right to a safe school and education. Students should not fear verbal harassment, cyber-bullying, or physical assault in our public schools.”

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Amy Winehouse died of high blood alcohol level

Amy Winehouse’s blood alcohol level was five times the legal limit. The blood alcohol level was what killed her. See Coroner’s ruling below:

No cause of death was determined by an initial autopsy, and though she had struggled with addictions to drugs and alcohol throughout her life, her family said over the summer that a toxicology report found no illegal substances in her system.

A ruling delivered Wednesday by a coroner in Britain, Suzanne Greenaway, said the official cause of Ms. Winehouse’s death was “death by misadventure,” The Associated Press reported. Reuters reported that an inquest found that the singer had 416 milligrams of alcohol per 100 milliliters of blood when she died; the legal driving limit in Britain is 80 milligrams.

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Gov. Goodhair releases first campaign ad

“As president, I’ll create at least 2.5 million new jobs,” Perry says.

But that’s a pretty low bar, considering 14 million are out of work. It’s a pace President Obama has been on since October 2010 (1.5 million jobs have been created since then. Prior to that, going back to February 2009, about 3.7 million were lost as a result of the near-financial meltdown).

Over four years, 2.5 million jobs only averages just over 52,000 jobs a month. It’s a fairly easy promise to keep.

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New Hampshire committee votes to repeal marriage equality

From Instinct: The New Hampshire House Judiciary Committee has approved legislation that seeks to remove same-sex couples right to marriage, already instituted in the state.

By a vote of 11 – 6, the Committee has moved forward with the regressive legislation in hopes of replacing New Hampshire’s historic marriage equality rights with the lesser and unequal civil unions.

Even the leader of the groups fighting equality understands that his proposal will create a cluster-headache of confusion in the state, similar to California in the wake of Prop 8.

“Kevin Smith, executive director of Cornerstone Action, admitted that if the bill eventually becomes law, it will create two classes of same-sex couples in New Hampshire—those with the tax benefits of marriage, and those without. That, however, is better than trying to repeal same-sex marriage all in one shot and having the matter ultimately decided by courts, he said.”

Despite that most in New Hampshire “strongly oppose” the legislation, thanks to today’s vote, if approved by the full House in January it will become law.