here’s an interesting story about a new way that evangelicals are attempting to convert homosexuals.
of course, that’s just my opinion of what they are trying to do.
here’s why i think that.
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Category: politics
not going to texas
well, add texas to the list which i know includes virginia and ohio.
texas yesterday passed their version of a gay marriage ban. its wording prohibits the state from “creating or recognizing any legal status identical or similar to marriage.”
which means that kirk and i, who have legal papers to approximate the legal rights of married couples, cannot go to texas because our papers have been invalidated. read all about it yourself.
one more state added to the list of states in my own country where i, as a taxpaying american citizen, cannot risk going.
quick political takes
here are a few quick thoughts about various political-type things i’ve been mulling over recently. mostly political, anyway. i’m not sure what the list will consist of.
i haven’t written it yet, have i now?
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the supremes
all this speculation about the supreme court nominees has me all het up.
not about the nominees themselves. about the speculation itself.
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third world country
the united states is a third world country.
at least in my opinion it is. but what about more objective measures? how do we stack up?
let’s take a look.
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not a flip-flopper
a bloomberg for mayor (republican of new york, the current mayor, mike bloomberg, the rich guy with the tv channel, for you non-new yorkers) commercial this morning on the tv in the gym. no sound, just the closed-captioning.
woman speaking to the camera in the commercial, explaining why she voting for bloomberg.
“he’s not a flip-flopper.”
has this man lost his mind?
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here we go again
we have yet another hurricane coming. and we have lots of time to prepare for this one as well. people seem to be taking it seriously, and evacuating. at least, that’s what the media is telling us.
there are a few problems with that angle, though.
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strip club dude
i voted in new york city’s democratic primary this morning. i voted for kris glen, among others.
i did not vote for strip club dude. who?
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questions to ask
it’s the 4th anniversary of 9/11. and i have some questions.
for dick cheney: during the last election, you said that if we elected john kerry, we’d all die. care to stand in new orleans and revise your comments?
for george bush: why should we believe that your administration’s response to hurricane katrina is anything other than an indicator of your typical response to a terror attack?
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vote for kris glen
i’ve decided to vote for kris glen.
who is she? hell if i know.
but she’s proven to me that she has more sense, or at least is backed by people with more sense, than anyone else i’ve seen running for any office in new york this year.
i should explain.
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well-expressed outrage
i know i’m getting clip-happy. but there are finally things to watch in the media that have actual impact and forethought and usefulness.
another must-see. he perfectly sums up exactly what is wrong on the gulf coast of america in the aftermath of katrina.
my favorite quote?
[the government] has just proved that it cannot save its citizens from a biological weapon called standing water.
there’s more better. much more better.
working well for them
from an ap wire story at yahoo.com. capital letters removed.
barbara bush, who accompanied the former presidents on a tour of the astrodome complex monday, said the relocation to houston is “working very well” for some of the poor people forced out of new orleans.
“what i’m hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in texas. everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality,” she said during a radio interview with the american public media program marketplace. “and so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.”
please watch this clip
i’m no fan of fox news, but this clip has to be seen to be believed. it’s at the site crooksandliars.com, and it shows shepard smith and geraldo rivera getting in the face of a spin-obsessed sean hannity. it takes some time to download (i think a lot of people must be watching it) but trust me, it’s worth the wait.
fox news clip at crooksandliars.com
what’s it going to take to get these people fed? it’s been nearly a week, and people continue to die.
how is this happening?
warning: this is going to be an irrational freeform rant.
is it in the genetic makeup of the bush family to have an inability to respond to a natural disaster?
you’d think that, after his great leadership in the days immediately after 9/11, he’d have a clue. but the federal government response, and bush’s personal response, was pathetic from the start.
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as i suspected
this whole scotus thing is going to be anticlimactic.
even though i knew all along that this guy was going to be approved, or voted in or on, or whatever, i still held out some hope for a few fireworks to entertain me in the interim. but everyone, or enough-one, is falling all over themselves to give approval, either direct or tacit.
and the only people who are getting het up are the people with a vested interest in interest-bearing investments of fundraising dollars that they want to pad.
only one thing is going to be of interest to me in this whole process.
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scotus
well, i guess i need to weigh in on the whole supreme court thing, even though no one really knows much about this guy, and even though if i tell you what i really think, which i will, you’ll probably be aghast.
scotus, by the way, is (s)upreme (c)ourt (o)f (t)he (u)nited (s)tates, not to be confused with potus, who is my stuffed monkey, at least he is until all the cats die and we get a new cat which will be named potus if i have any say in matters. then we will have not potus but poti.
anyway, the shocking thing is that i don’t give a good goddamn if this guy is confirmed or not, and i kind of hope he is confirmed. and here’s why, and then you can be aghast and tell me i’m ignorant and deluded and uncaring and illogical and whatnot.
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dnr me
dnr. do not resuscitate.
i have my living will in place, and so does kirk. and if you don’t, you should have one.
it’s more complicated than that if you are gay and in a relationship, though. for instance, kirk and i won’t go to ohio, virginia, or any of the other states that passed anti-gay-marriage laws last november. why won’t we go, you ask?
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new software version
i just upgraded the software used to run this site (greymatter) to the latest release. please leave comments if you see any errors, but so far it looks pretty airtight.
and for the techy geeks in the house–trackback crap and extra geegaws nothwithstanding, greymatter is still my favorite blogging software. email me and debate me if you disagree.
and by the way…
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who to hu
i’m gonna be lazy and repost this email i got today. after yesterday’s schiavo-thon post, i think i deserve that.
remember abbott and costello? of course you don’t. well, probably you don’t. their “who’s on first” routine is classic comedy at its best.
here’s the updated version, featuring my favorite president. to bash.
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‘fessin’ up
ok, it was a cheap shot.
yes i used that poor vegetable woman to get you to read something i really care about, grammar. but be honest. if i had entitled yesterday’s blog “my grammar nitpicks” you would have blown by it at top speed. great thoughts, or to be honest slightly better than mediocre thoughts, left unread. this will not do.
hence the subterfuge. it’s all about packaging.
so, in the interest of karmic balance or whatever, here’s what i think about terri schiavo.
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