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GOOD GRIEF

You are Snoopy!

Which Peanuts Character are You?
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Via Green Frog.

A-ROD IS A YANK

Everything always works out for the New York Yankees. They are so lucky.

TILL THE CONSTITUTION DO US PART

All weekend I’ve been watching footage of couples standing, sitting, reclining in long lines in front of San Francisco’s city hall, waiting for marriage licenses and wedding officiation. Then there were the fauz C-SPAN clips of legislatures (mostly in Georgia and Massachussetts) debating motions to amend the state constitutions to ban gay marriage.
One Georgian legislator warned that the Republican administration was forcing a special session, during a holiday weekend, in order to inject hate and discrimination into the state Constitution.
The amendment passed. And pending approval in the other chamber of Georgia’s legislature, it’ll be put on the ballot in November.
Hate was derailed a bit longer in Massachusetts when the body adjourned without any decision.
It’s sad really.
I remember when the issue of gay rights was explored in 1993 with respect to gays in the military, I thought, this is a no-brainer. Of course, gay people are allowed in the military. Of course, gay people can serve as scout leaders. Dude, what does one thing have to do with the other?
Silly me, I was just a foolish teenager then. Those older and wiser decided that a ’see no gay people, hear no gay people’ approach was the way to go. Troop morale and impressionable boys and all that.
So what’s the sitch with gay marriages?
No morale issues, no youth to be corrupted by all the gayness — no problem.
Wrong again, kid.
The sad thing is I am surprised everytime.
We have a constitution and a jurisprudence that says you can’t discriminate against people based on sex. Where is the little asterisked fine print that says “* only if they are gay”?
I’ve looked, it ain’t there.
If Jane wants to marry Tom, the state allows it. If Jane wants to marry Lisa, the state forbids it. How is that not impermissible discrimination against Lisa because she is a woman?
Now I’ve heard the oh-so-clevers opine that if we allow Jane and Lisa to wed, then we have to allow brothers and sisters to get married. Or polygamists. Or beastialists.
Of course, it’s not all true.
Gay marriage should be allowed simply because our laws prohibit gender discrimination, nowhere does our law say only men can have two wives or only women can marry their siblings or only men can bed their goats. Nobody has those privileges, so denial is not discriminatory.
We have had a long history of denying rights to people based on their skin colors, nationality, gender, accents, etc. and every time we have eventually come out on the side of equality under the law (if not in the real world.)
Why can’t we learn from our history and skip this embarrassing “debate” about who can be second class citizens and who can’t be?
Please, stop surprising me.

SHE’S NO HILLARY CLINTON

According to the Daily News, Teresa Heinz told Elle magazine “she would jokingly warn her first husband that if he ever strayed, “I’ll maim you. Not kill you, just maim you.” ”

Is it just me or does anyone else kinda hope the rumors are true, just to see Teresa go medieval on Kerry?

DEFENDING JANET

From Frank Rich’s column: “There are plenty of Americans to laugh at, starting with the public itself. If we are to believe the general outcry, the nation’s families were utterly blindsided by the Janet-Justin pas de deux while watching an entertainment akin to “Little Women.” As Laura Bush put it, “Parents wouldn’t know to turn their television off before that happened.” They wouldn’t? In the two-plus hours “before that happened,” parents saw not only the commercials featuring a crotch-biting dog, a flatulent horse and a potty-mouthed child but also the number in which the crotch-grabbing Nelly successfully commanded a gaggle of cheerleaders to rip off their skirts. What signal were these poor, helpless adults waiting for before pulling their children away from the set? Apparently nothing short of a simulated rape would do.”

It’s a great piece, so if you’re registered with the old gray lady’s online outlet, read the whole thing.

THAT’S THE END OF THAT CHAPTER

The WB has cancelled ‘Angel.’

I hate terrorists

There a liberal has said it. Now, stop bitchin’.

In particular, I hate that because of terrorists my library has removed the after hour drop box meaning I have to stand on line to return my Buffy the Vampire Slayer books.

Yeah, that’s right. Books.

A Conservative Comes Out of The Closet

Alarming News’ Kashei has something to tell the blogosphere.

JUST SAY NO TO ESPRESSO

OK, maybe just say no to three large cups of double cappuccinos is more accurate. I swear, right now I can see the future, read minds and make objects levitate.

PUTIN: REBUILD THAT WALL!!!

Russian leader laments the end of the Soviet Union, calling it a national tragedy that only benefited the elites.