I'm from the Republican party. Vote for me! It'll be "jobs, jobs, jobs"

Wait. Never mind. It'll be gays! abortion! women's rights! protection for billionaires! war! Government shut down! Waa! Hoo?

http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/06/kansas-shut-down-all-abortion-clinics-friday

And God. Don't forget God! My version, not yours thank you very much! Note: Governor Perry's state-sponsored faith event is for Christians only! Sheesh.

Oh! No! Iowa not the "gay mecca" I was dreaming of.

Come on gays! Go to Iowa and get married!

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20110630/NEWS/106300338/-1/GALLERY_ARRAY/Same-sex-marriages-dip-Iowa-2010

Only 1594  same sex couples wed in all of 2010.
1783 couples wed in 2009 - and they could only do it for 9  months in 2009.

What. The. Fuck? Did gays figure out that marriage sucks? Did they all run out and get married that first year (I know I did!!)?

Come on the Christians are afraid Iowa's going to be the "homosexual capital of the midwest." Don't let them down!!!

Birther looks like idiot; blames others

Corsi looked like an idiot long before Esquire's satirical piece - that I didn't even see until I learned about the lawsuit. But, being a best-selling author isn't good enough so he's suing.

I love how the birthers hate the courts until they want them.

http://politics.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474979533814

Here's the Esquire piece. It's kind of funny:

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/jerome-corsi-birther-book-5765410

Obama CLAIMS he's met his commitments to the gay community.

Well, given that I don't have a SINGLE right now that I did when he came into office. He lies. And he lies because it's politically expedient.

So help me. I'm going back to voting third party.

Question to President Obama

Do you have to know what state you're in before you know whether you're married (or your marriage is recognized/means anything/grants you visitation rights/etc.)?

why the heck do you think it's o.k. that I have to know?

Republicans like Bachmann want government out of our business. Unless that business is personal

So. The government shouldn't impose a minimum wage that actually allows parents to earn a living and feed their kids (most minimum wage earners are NOT teenagers)

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/eliminating-minimum-wage-slash-unemployment/story?id=13951494

But it has every right and should control a woman's body and whether or not gays have rights.

http://www.christianpost.com/news/presidential-candidate-bachmann-would-back-federal-amendment-banning-gay-marriage-51592/
http://floridaindependent.com/36652/michel-bachmann-mitt-romney-pro-life

Well that makes perfect sense.

No it doesn't.

Santorum

google him. it'll be fun.

Let's be clear: Radical muslims = bad; radical christians = good

Um. No.

Lynne Torgerson doesn't have anything substantive to say about Representative Ellison so she accuses him of being a radical Muslim. http://minnesotaindependent.com/83116/lynne-torgerson-keith-ellison-islam-tea-party As a Minnesota citizen for more than 20 years now, I see ZERO evidence that Ellison is trying to impose his religious beliefs on citizens of this country.

I see TONS of evidence that Christians are trying to impose their beliefs on citizens.
http://minnesotaindependent.com/82532/marcus-bachmann-donated-to-campaign-for-constitutional-ban-on-gay-marriage (just one example, look at my other blog posts or google something on the internet for more)

Why is Ellison bad and, oh, I don't know, Gingrich and Santorum and Bachmann and Huckabee and Palin and so on good?

Founding fathers and slavery

Um. Don't really care what Bachmann or Barton have to say on the issue of the Revolutionary War being fought to end slavery. That's silly. We had slavery long after other "civilized" countries ended the practices. Hell, we had slavery long after the founding fathers were dead.

Back in 1976 my parents took the family on a trip back east to see Washington D.C., Mt. Vernon, Gettysburg, etc. I remember seeing slave quarters at Mt. Vernon http://www.mountvernon.org/visit/plan/index.cfm/pid/212/ and being confused about how Thomas Jefferson could be so opposed to slavery and yet support it. Must have tied him into knots. http://www.monticello.org/site/plantation-and-slavery/thomas-jefferson-and-slavery.

Why can't Bachmann just admit that she either
a. misspoke and meant the Civil War or
b. was wrong

Just because some like Barton says something silly doesn't make it so. Here's an example.

I say, "My cat can fly."

Not true.

No difference.

Bachmann's former chief of staff doesn't think she's ready to be president.

Hmm. Neither do I.

I keep hearing about folks like Palin and Bachmann that people really like them because they're "just like us" I don't know about you, but I want someone way smarter than me to be president and I had a 1580 SAT a little more than 20 years ago.

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20110628/OPINION01/106280331/Bachmann-is-so-not-ready-for-presidency-but-Pawlenty-has-the-judgment-and-skills

Iowa bigots on full display

Great. Just great. Iowa Christian bigots (and, no, not all Christians are bigots, but in these parts all bigots sure as heck seem to be Christians)

“I don’t want this to be the homosexual capital of the Midwest,” Scheffler said. “We Iowans want this state to be a good, safe environment for our kids. You ask the average person in the street whether they support gay marriage, and they’ll say no.”

Repulsive and disgusting. I want neighborhoods safe for kids too. Parents who work to stay together. Fathers who don't beat their kids, states that help feed kids whose parents have fallen on hard times, a decent education. All those things impact kids. My neighbors are not impacted one iota by my having access to the same CIVIL RIGHTS that you have. My neighbors are not impacted by my spouse being at my bedside in illness or collecting social security that I've EARNED just as much as my heterosexual neighbor when I'm dead.

Civil Unions don't work you fuckers because states and the federal government don't treat civil unions the same as marriage. Fucking bigots. Either get government out of marriage - and that means all the fucking tax benefits, or don't exclude non-believers from it.

http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/iowa-christians-eye-repeal-of-gay-marriage-law/

Just another woman "asking" for it

Why is it that we keep looking for excuses for perpetrators? Why, when a man hits a woman, did she "make" him do it, or force him into it or "ask" for it.

Why can't we just admit that sometimes adults don't behave like adults and they should pay the consequences.

Prosser is a judge for god's sake. He's charged with ensuring justice and making sure people pay for their crimes.

And yet Fox News thinks the choked should resign.

Un-freakin-believable.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/06/27/254619/greta-on-prosser-choking/

Obama - not a dime for you until you acknowledge the civil rights of gay people or insist that our tax rates be lowered

!!!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/obama-pushing-behind-scenes-to-win-over-big-dollar-donors/2011/06/24/AGO5NGoH_story.html?hpid=z1

Reason # 812 that Christians don't need protection from us; we need protection from them.

Inciting to violence. Send the TSA after him, not grandmothers in wheelchairs. This is fucking terrorism.

http://www.christianpost.com/news/ny-catholic-bishop-says-opponents-must-forcefully-and-clearly-against-gay-marriage-51596/

A Bit of Frye and Laurie -- Mystery

Violent video games, kids and the Supreme Court

I don't know. I don't play really violent video games (I hardly think Mario stomping on a bad guy counts) but when I do, I often think about "smashing" something that's bothering me. Turns out I'm probably not the only one.

So, does playing violent video games make people violent or give them a release from their anger and stress?'

I remember when I was a kid parents and other adults being concerned about hard rock music. I still listen to it (and classical and the blues and alternative and so on). I have to be in the right mood for hard rock (and classical and so on) but I feel no more inclined to beat on something after listening to hard rock than classical. It's a release. Maybe violent video games are, too.

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2011/06/violent-videogames-minors/

Gingrich -- Gay people shouldn't be allowed to get married.

Says the man on, what, his third marriage?

Huh?

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/25/us-gingrich-iowa-idUSTRE75O25720110625

Bachmann compares herself to a serial killer

Now that's politics:

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-bachmann-wayne-20110627,0,187514.story?track=rss

"Well what I want them to know is just like, John Wayne was from Waterloo, Iowa. That's the kind of spirit that I have, too," said Bachmann.

John Wayne, the movie actor, was born in Iowa, but not in Waterloo. Really interesting, stoic actor.

John Wayne Gacy, the serial killer, was born in Chicago, Illinois, but he got his (known) criminal start in Waterloo. Evil, Icky man.

Here's a couple helpful articles from Wikipedia:

John Wayne: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wayne
John Wayne Gacy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wayne_Gacy

I'll say this, she'd make a fun president. We'd all have to actually do some research and learn some shit so we'd know what she was making up and when. Could be fun.

Orly Taitz needs a hobby. Or a job maybe.

When does a dentist/realtor/lawyer have time to come up with this?

I know more about how the courts work. And the whole, innocent until proven guilty thingy that we use in this country? foreign concept to her. Love the part where she want the (supposed) guilty party to give her the evidence she needs. Weird how that works. You have to prove I did something, beyond a reasonable doubt, you don't get to badger me forever until I give up and say "uncle."

Oh weird one.

Here's her latest filing:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/58390613/TAITZ-v-ASTRUE-USDC-D-C-18-MOTION-to-Strike-10-RECAP-Answer-to-Amended-Complaint-by-ORLY-TAITZ-gov-uscourts-dcd-146770-18-0

David Frum. Finally. I agree with him.

Actually, I agree with him on a lot of things. I really don't think of myself as a big "d" democrat. Never have.  I've said it before, I'll say it again. I didn't leave the Republican party, it left me.

David Frum's evolving view on gay marriage.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/06/27/frum.gay.marriage/

And, really, he's right. My marriage has no impact on anyone other than me and mine. My neighbors are not impacted. Niether are the homophobes around the country.

Wait. What? I thought Bachmann had a titanium spine?

If she won't even accept an apology from a conservative newsman, how's she going to react around the rest of us.

Also, where's the titanium spine when she's hiding in the bushes at a gay rights lobby day?

Obama needs to continue evolving

Until Obama evolves on gay marriage to the point where I don't have to know what fucking state I'm in to know whether or not I'm married. He's not getting a dime from me.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/telnaes?hpid=z3

I've long had it with Republicans who want government small enough to fit in my bedroom. But a president who thinks it's up to the state to decide if I'm married and that it's at some level o.k. that the federal government continues to ignore me?

Lower my fucking tax rate if you're not going to even acknowledge that I have the same civil rights as my countrymen.

The terrorists have won. Jesus we're a fucked up country.

Great. I understand TSA officers are following procedures. But the procedures are ridiculous. When our government has made us so afraid that this sort of thing happens, they've made us too afraid.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/06/26/florida.tsa.incident/index.html?hpt=hp_c1

Hinckley picnic boat. Now, that's a fun boat!

Gay marriage - kinda sad it's a political issue

Really kind of stunning that in this economic environment while we're fighting God only knows ('cause the government sure as hell won't tell us) how  many wars, and looking at medicare and medicaid and social security going down the tupbes.

Kinda sad that my right to marry may be an issue in 2012. Why don't you folks just mind your business?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303627104576409841813335926.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Same sex marriage vs. marriage equality

i think calling my marriage a "same sex" marriage devalues it when compared to any other marriage. And here is an article from Daily Kos that explains better than I ever could, why:

Politics operates around language -- "conservatives" and members of the Republican party typically realize this better than progressives do. Excessive use of scare quotes, I realize, but concepts like the "war on terror," which never was a war and rarely focused on actual radicals intent on committing acts of terrorism was and has been an extremely powerful political concept focused almost entirely on a phrase that captures the imagination in a compelling way. Language games get tricky -- those of us who get physically ill when encountering the concept of "framing" understand this quite well. Yet, as icky as it may be, framing is critically important (even if vaguely Orwellian) when trying to make a political point or to advance an issue through the political process.

The religious right and their obsession with sex

I've long thought it weird that I live in a society that is more o.k. with folks seeing horrifically violent television than a woman's boobs. On the other hand, Europe seems more o.k. with sex and less o.k. with gunfights and knife fights and so on.

We live in a repressed puritanical society that is uncomfortable with discussing sex - hence the fights at all sorts of school board meetings about how sex ed. should be taught - or whether it should be left to being taught at home where parents will ignore it until it goes away - I mean becomes pregnant (or gets someone pregnant).

The religious rights fascination with how gay  men have sex (and linking it to a single act that even heterosexual couples can indulge in) is weird. Just as heterosexuals are about more than sex, so are homosexuals.

Interesting article on a new book by Frank Schaeffer who's parents were intimately involved in the creation of the religious right:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/06/24/frank-schaeffer-talks-about-his-new-book-sex-mom-and-god.html

NOM doesn't get it

If you really, really want to save marriage, work on stopping divorce. Yeah to these New York Senators for standing up to your bigotry and doing what is right now matter your threats.

Religion losing "ugly" again on issue of marriage

I went to church faithfully as a child. And watched as the church ignored my family after one of my mom's suicide attempts.

I went to church faithfully as the pastor had an affair with the organist and they both left town.

And as a local minister's son beat the snot out of my brother because he wanted his bicycle.

And as "good" Christians told me my brother and mother were in hell after they both killed themselves.

I went to church faithfully as my dad's third marriage meant more than my relationship with  my partner.

And as "good" Christians cheated on their wives and husbands and beat their kids and stole from their employers.

And, now, I watch as Bishops declare that marriage as we know it is ruined by the interference of the government. If the Bishops want to save marriage, save marriage. stop divorce, teach husbands to treat their wives well.

I won't be watching faithfully from a church anymore, though.

Article from Commonweal about the Bishops and marriage and young people and homosexual hypocrisy.

http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/blog/?p=14089

Gay marriage heroes and villians

Why does it have to be either. Marriage, like it or not folks, is a civil right with civil rights and responsibilities. Getting to see your spouse while you're in the hospital, getting to make funeral decisions for your spouse when he or she dies, social security, inheritance rights. None of that has diddly to do with whether someone gets married in a church or a temple or a mosque or a park or someone's living room. In order to be married, you have to register with your government.

And, the idea that in order to protect your religious rights you must deny me my civil rights is just wrong.

Interesting article on Grisanti, Republican from Buffalo who was a swing vote on the New York marriage vote:

http://www.buffalonews.com/city/politics/article468372.ece

Marriage equality and the Catholic Bishops

Huffington Post article on the irony of Catholic Bishops - representatives of a long mistrusted religion (lots of controversy even when Kennedy was elected) advocting for denying civil rights to a minority.

Ah. the irony.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/geoffrey-r-stone/marriage-equality-and-the_b_884594.html

Awesome Possum! New York legalizes same sex marriage.

I actually heard this before I went to bed last night, but wanted to make sure the world didn't end overnight before I celebrated this morning.

Here's one of about three billion articles on the topic. What makes this one extra super special is that it's a reprint in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, a state who's legislature saw fit to put an amendment to ban gay marriage on the 2012 ballot when

a. same sex marriage is already against the law in Minnesota, and
b. um, how shall I put this? The idiots still don't have a budget and the state is going to go into shut down in a week unless they do.

http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/124485328.html

If marriage has nothing to do with the government

Then stop taking my fucking taxes to support benefits for married couples while denying me my right to those same tax benefits.

Family Research Council idiocy on gay marriage and religious exemptions:

http://www.frcblog.com/2011/06/no-%E2%80%9Creligious-exemptions%E2%80%9D-can-redeem-homosexual-%E2%80%9Cmarriage%E2%80%9D/

Conference goers seem not to "get" Rick Perry's wildly funny joke about Jose Cuervas

Gosh I thought it was funny that the governor bragged about his diverse appointments and especially Jose Cervas to the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission. Get it? His name sounds like a brand of alcohol from south of the border. Why that's nearly as funny as:

Bush - department of agriculture
Bloomberg - information services (new one - but really "Bloomberg News" and information. Slap my knee that one's a funny un)
Cantor - official representative to the Preakness (get it? 'cause horses "cantor")
McCain - ambassador to Scotland
Gingrich - IRS/alcohol 'cause his name makes "gin" and "rich" with an extra "g"
Huntsman - fish and game
Pawlenty - tax commissioner (get it? he'd bring in "pawlenty of money")
Weiner - USDA (that's another hilarious one)
Santorum - health and human services (Google "Santorum" if you need help on why that one's funny)

o.k. Now that you've Googled that last one. Still funny to make jokes about someone's name being associated with something? Yes? No?

Same Sex Marriage. Special Comment by Keith Olbermann

Thank you sir.

Humans "taught" dogs to bark

Does anyone who's ever owned (or been owned by) a dog doubt that their barks means something?

Interesting article from Wired about humans guiding the evolution of barking dogs.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/06/dog-bark-origins/

Bible condemns a lot why focus on gay marriage

Interesting editorial on CNN's website about the Bible and Christians and gay marriage.

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/21/my-take-bible-condemns-a-lot-so-why-focus-on-homosexuality/

Alternatively, why impose your religion on folks who don't share it?

I don't want to live in a country that thinks it's o.k. to let old people starve

or poor people, or children.

Why, oh why, do we have plenty of money to fight wars but not to help our citizens live with a little dignity?

Where are the Tea Party and folks like Rand Paul taking us?

http://www.thenation.com/blog/161587/growing-number-hungry-senior-citizens

Want homosexuals to become heterosexuals?

Hey! I want heterosexuals to become homosexuals!

No?

Doesn't work that way?

You can't choose to be homosexual when you're heterosexaul?

But I should choose because I make you uncomfortable?

Well, that seems fair.

Not.

Hey! Vander Plaats! There's got to be something more important than gay marriage in Iowa

Like, oh, I don't know. The economy?

http://iowaindependent.com/57653/vander-plaats-gronstal-will-face-huge-re-election-battle

Go ahead, get rid of Gronstal. It's the wrong thing to do. And it sure as heck won't make your anti-equality cause right, but it'll prove that you can distract people from issues that matter to their lives in order to get money and power.

My partner and I married in Iowa in 2009. My heterosexual neighbors and friends have not been impacted one iota. How do I know? I asked them.

Sarah Palin - did she or didn't she - quit her bus tour?

I'm bored. Let's talk about Sarah's bus tour.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/06/22/report-palin-ends-one-nation-bus-tour-america/

Nope. too boring.

http://nation.foxnews.com/sarah-palin/2011/06/22/palin-says-her-bus-tour-isnt-over

Really? Who cares?

"Practical Ethics" "A Reflection on Confronting Evil"

Awesome blog posting from Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford

An interesting, non-shrill, wonderful piece about equality and lots of other "fancy" words that I don't want to use incorrectly because I took philosophy/ethics about a million, zillion years ago.

Yeah Pawlenty and Bachmann really DO want smaller government

Just so it's small enough to fit in a woman's uterus.

http://minnesotaindependent.com/82941/bachmann-pawlenty-romney-susan-b-anthony-list-abortion-pledge

Who's going to pay for all the government folks out there monitoring pregnancies? What government services are we going to offer the kids or the families of woman who die during difficult pregnancies or who go nuts because they can't deal with raising their rapist's child?

Zellers and Bradlee Dean

You know, nobody will probably ever know whether Zellers - Republican speaker in Minnesota who condemned Bradlee Dean's prayer - really wanted to go on Dean's radio show a week before "the incident" But even if he did, he still could have been naive about what Bradlee stands for. After all, other big wigs have been on his show, Zellers may have just wanted to be a bigwig.

Or maybe, he just felt bad that the Republicans got caught.

http://minnesotaindependent.com/82989/bradlee-dean-kurt-zellers-radio-show

If Palin doesn't know history, it's the Democrats fault

Rick Santorum (quick, look him up on Google "frothy mix") says that if we don't know history, it's because the "left" has made a "conscious effort" to keep students uninformed.

As a (former) lifelong Republican who refuses to call myself a Democrat, I just really find this hard to believe. Who's the party that wants to home school their kids, have charter schools, defund education (I'm talking to you Governor Pawlenty)?

http://thinkprogress.org/education/2011/06/21/249432/rick-santorum-education-leftist-plot/

Un-freakin' believable. 

The power of airlines over the disabled

I can't even remember how many stories I've read in the last six months about disabled people being thrown of airplanes. And, always, the airline ends up apologizing. But in the meantime, they've disrupted lives, humiliated people and on and on. Love how the airline says they'll do some training to make sure this sort of thing never happens again. Really? Do you have to train on each and every thing that can go wrong - separately of course and after someone's been thrown off a plane - before you get it right?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_airline_quadriplegic

Major Tom (Coming Home) Peter Schilling

Earth below us, drifting, falling, floating weightless, calling, calling home ...



Oh my God, California might teach the "gay lifestyle"

Um. Really? I went to school in California a million billion years ago (o.k. more like 25). Looonngg before any (alleged) teaching of any so-called gay lifestyle. And guess what. You got it. I'm gay. So, no one taught me about it. No one indoctrinated me into it. and I'm gay.

Also. What is the heterosexual fascination with the gay "lifestyle" For the life of me I can't figure out what's so fabulous about it. I have a sink full of dirty dishes, a cat with a thyroid condition who's peeing in inappropriate places, a partner who has to get up at 4:00 a.m. to go to work, a scrape on my foot from when I was mowing the lawn on Saturday and a headache from staring at a computer screen all day at work.

Wow. heinous lifestyle.

Hey! Who knew! Rape's o.k.

Um. Disgusted. And inclined to throw out my Dilbert comic strip books. I haven't purchased any in several years because it stopped being funny (IMHO) a long time ago. But still.

 "Society is organized in such a way that the natural instincts of men are shameful and criminal while the natural instincts of women are mostly legal and acceptable,"

Um. We make lots of things "shameful" and "criminal". Because they are. It might be in someone's nature to be a cannibal, but in modern society, we really do frown on that. We throw people in jail for it.

Here's Salon's take on Adam's idiocy. http://www.salon.com/entertainment/tv/feature/2011/06/20/scott_adams_dilbert_rape_remarks/

And here's his idiocy front and center.

http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/pegs_and_holes/has

I'm gonna go throw up on my Dilbert books.

Wow. "trickle" down really is a trickle, isn't it.

Let's see, the rich have seen income increases of four-fold, while the middle class has been relatively flat or going backward re: inflation.

There was a time when I was younger that I believed in "trickle down". But that time has long since passed.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/with-executive-pay-rich-pull-away-from-rest-of-america/2011/06/13/AGKG9jaH_story.html?hpid=z1

Loyalty oaths of a sort and the Republicans

I don't like Mitt Romney. Don't like his politics; don't like his waffling. But I do respect him for not signing the Susan B. Anthony "loyalty oath" Why the heck is it that folks on either side of the aisle must follow a very specified set of rules or they're "not one of us". Romney has said he's pro-life. I believe him. I don't agree with him. But I believe him. I think he made a good point in night signing the pledge because it would impact way more than Anthony's pet abortion issue.

Leave the loyalty oaths to the 1950s and McCarthy. Let's expect our candidates to behave like adults and change their minds as they learn more about issues (i.e. Romney used to be pro gay rights, pro health reform and pro choice. He learned more -- as in "gosh I want to get elected and primary voters are really picky -- and changed his mind.) Lots of folks change their minds. I'd hate to think that I thought the same things I did when I was 12 and that I refused to let new information or new insight or life experience get in the way of new thinking.

Santorum. What a guy. Good job coming down on Romney for standing up for principle. Quick, Google Santorum and 'frothy mix'

More people approve of gays marrying now than interracial marriage when laws banning it were overturned by the Supreme Court

But really, who cares.

Why do we still insist that constitutional rights be based on popularity polls? Should unattractive people be able to marry? To breed? Should I have a say? What about disabled people? People who don't intend to have children? Atheists? Christian who wants to marry a Jew? Or a protestant who wants to marry a Catholic? Is any of that my business? Or yours? Marriage is a contract with certain rights and responsibilities. That's why saying that allowing gays to marry will lead to folks wanting to marry their pet goats or some other sentient (or non-sentient) being. Um. A goat can't sign a contract. Neither can a rock, a pair of scissors, a paperback book, a child (that evil argument - that allowing gays to marry will lead to folks marrying children - is particularly disgusting). Let's see. A horse can't sign a contract. Neither can a jar of pennies, a super hero sculpture, a really, really cool car or a Wii Guitar Hero guitar. Got it? Marriage is a contract between two people that spells out rights and responsibilities those two people have to one another.

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/06/marriage_equality.html

Super 8 or Green Lantern?

Super 8.

Super 8, Green Lantern or X-Men First Class?

Super 8

What about two of the three?

Super 8 and X-Men First Class

What if you want to see Ryan Reynolds and his abs?

Well, then go see Green Lantern but know that you're doing it for his abs and not for the movie.

Are you straight? Is your marriage in trouble?

Sorry 'bout that. My same sex spouse and I apologize profusely for destroying your marriage.

Not.

Icon is one cool off-road truck

Read more and see more pictures here:

http://www.wired.com/reviews/2011/06/fj44-icon/

Schools should teach intelligent design. Really?

Isn't that what my faith community is for? By the way, if, as you say Bachmann, schools should teach intelligent design, should they also teach other faith systems and their views of how the universe was created? If not, why not?

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/17/bachmann-schools-should-teach-intelligent-design/#more-164226

abortion pledges and presidential candidates

Um. Wouldn't making a candidate sign a pledge to only appoint judges with certain views require him or her to appoint judges who'd legislate from the bench?

Way to go Susan B. Anthony List. Don't you hate it when judges "legislate" I mean rule on the constitutionality of law?

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/17/romney-team-explains-refusal-to-sign-anti-abortion-pledge/#more-164235

Social conservatives eating their own.

If anyone was paying attention, they'd realize that social conservatives split the Republican party in 2008, too, by splitting their primary votes between Romney and Huckabee. And they ended up with McCain, a candidate conservatives never seemed to get excited about until Palin joined the ticket.

If the religious/social conservative vote is fractured three or more ways, a candidate who rarely strays from economic messages, such as Massachusetts' Mitt Romney, could more easily reach a plurality.
"There's a real risk of that," said Carmine Boal, 55, a former state lawmaker and Huckabee backer who believes candidates need to show unwavering conviction on marriage and abortion while also talking about jobs and the economy.

Yet more proof that Christians imposing THEIR beliefs on us is the only thing behind gay marriage bans

Not the link to the article so much as the comments. folks quoting the Bible to justify denying civil rights? Really? It's happened before people. It happened when women weren't permitted to vote, it happened during school integration, during lots of civil rights fights.

Keep your fucking version of the Bible out of my house. I believe in God. A God who created me on purpose. If God didn't want gay people, there wouldn't be gay people.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-new-york-gay-marriage-20110617,0,650747.story

This is the kind of "Christian" Governor Perry is hanging out with at his stupid prayer day

Remember that little song from grade school? You know the one that has the chorus "and they'll know we are Christians by our love, by our love"? Well, this guy doesn't. He's not comfortable unless he's speaking out against non-Christians and gays (in his world, gays simply can't be Christians).

The worst part? Folks in power are listening to him. Yes, there are idiots in lots of movements. Folks who think 9-11 was an inside job for instance. The difference is that those folks don't have the ear of anyone in power, much less the ear of someone who is thinking seriously of running for president and is the governor of a really, really, really big state.



Love this article on conservatives. It says a lot about where I was and how disillusioned I am now.

Ah. the 1980's. Things were simpler then. And Republicans and conservatives actually made sense.

Back in the 1980s, conservatism was a thrilling empirical, reality-based challenge to overweening government power and omniscient liberal utopianism. Today, alas, it has become a victim of its own success, reliving past glories rather than tackling current problems. It is part secular dogma - no taxes, no debt, more war - and part religious dogma - no Muslims need apply; amend the federal constitution to keep gays in their place; no abortions even for rape and incest; more settlements on the West Bank to prepare for the End-Times.

Now, not so much.

Hey everybody let's get all Christian. My kind of Christian of course

Again I say, what the heck is the governor of Texas doing hosting a hate group at a prayer event designed to get other poticians to accept Jesus?

http://www.northcountrygazette.org/2011/06/16/no_unity/

Gosh a giant credit card company didn't tell the truth. go figure

Let's see. CitiBank has known about the hack for more than a month, decided to tell everyone about it last week and now has decided that more accounts were hacked than they first admitted.

Anyone but me wonder if they got more information from the hacked accounts than CitiBank is admitting? I really don't know. But I know the big banks have been lying to us (and screwing us) for years.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/06/citibank-hacked/

Not all Christians are idiots, but these folks sure are.

Let's see, allowing gays to marry hurts Christians because it steps on their faith (what about mine?) and trying a case on gay rights in the 9th circuit is like "feeding Christians to the lions"

One more time idiots. No one is forcing you to marry a gay person. Therefore, your rights aren't infringed in any way. but you are DEMANDING the right to infringe on my rights and the rights of a lot of folks like me.

Cut it out.

When even Fox News sees through your idiocy, you're being idiots.

http://coloradoindependent.com/91144/for-fox-news-analysts-focus-on-family-too-biased-on-prop-8-gay-marriage

Gosh Romney's unemployed. Poor dear.

Um. Let's see. Right now Brad Pitt may be unemployed (don't know, maybe he's working on a movie). Don't feel sorry for him. Or Oprah who just lost a job of how many years?

There's being "unemployed" and wealthy and being unemployed and not knowing how you're going to make your mortgage payment or what you're going to do when COBRA runs out.

Get a grip politicians. I'd trade Romney my employed status (and salary and home and 16-year-old car) in a heart beat.

I bet a lot of lottery winners are unemployed, too. I don't care if Romney was joking. When we as a country have money for how many damned wars and not for our children and our elderly and our schools? Not funny.

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-romney-remark-20110616,0,7295299.story

Social issues matter in 2012 says Iowa idiot

Let's see. The economy is still in turmoil for many of us. Unemployment is high. We can't figure out how to feed our poor or provide medical care to our elderly. We're fighting how many wars (I'm really not sure. I think Libya doesn't count but it should)

But Republican candidates for president had better care about a woman's right to her body and whether or not a consenting gay couple has rights.

Thanks Vander Plaats. You've made the party I used to really, really care about seem like a bunch of idiots.

Whatever happened to personal responsibility and keeping the government out of our lives?

http://iowaindependent.com/57390/vander-plaats-social-issues-matter-in-2012

Weiner is gone; but what about the rest of them?

Sex scandals are still the worst thing you can do in this country. Worse than getting us into wars based on false information. Worse than torturing folks (though if I have to see one more article about Weiner I'm gonna feel all tortured). Worse than robbing senior citizens of their pension funds and/or life savings. Football players (not all of them I know) can beat up their wives and girlfriends, but a politician interested in sex? That's somehow beyond the pale.

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/story/index.html?story=/opinion/greenwald/2011/06/16/weiner

Gay judges should disclose their "gayness"

Um. right. There's no judge anywhere fit to rule on Prop 8 if a gay judge can't. Surely a straight judge can't either as the pro 8 argument claims that heterosexuals will be harmed if gays marry.

http://www.slate.com/id/2296862/

and

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/06/judge-says-no-evidence-gay-judge-proposition-8-case-wished-to-marry-his-partner.html?lanow

America where "freedom of religion rules" as long as it's a religion I approve of.

On what planet should the governor of a state be hosting an event for governors designed to encourage folks to seek Christ. I'm guessing it's his version of Christ, not the more "liberal" version of Christ. You know the one I mean. The one who told us to help the poor, to love our neighbors, to render unto Caesar what was Caesar's (taxes) and so on, but the one who wants us to define marriage, prohibit certain forms of healthcare for women and so on.

How many recessions does it take to convince politicians free markets aren't always the answer?

I came of age during a recession. Had another one in 2000 and now this one. My retirement savings isn't doing nearly as well as it needs to and based on all the studies I've read I have a lot more put aside than most folks my age. Gen X has really been screwed re: retirement. Few of us have pensions. And most of us have spent years spinning our retirement wheels as we watch our savings continue to fall.

Kind of makes me wish certain politicians would give up on privatizing Social Security and Medicare and whatever else they can think of.

Interesting article on a lost financial decade:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-to-avoid-a-lost-decade/2011/06/12/AGjnG8RH_story.html

Europeans are SOOOO jealous of American healthcare. Um. Maybe not.

Gosh. Is it possible? Americans aren't the best at something? Decent healthcare in this country seems to be only for the rich and folks lucky enough to have it through work. Even some folks who do have it through work are scared as heck to use it because so much isn't covered and/or deductibles are so high.

http://www.latimes.com/health/la-fg-britain-health-care-20110613,0,1237142.story

Too few women lead to too many problems

Interesting interview on "missing" women in the world leading to men buying wives in poor countries:

http://www.salon.com/life/feminism/index.html?story=/mwt/feature/2011/06/12/unnatural_selection_interview

Seriously. Conservatives have gone off the rail. Fake eviction notices in Detroit

A conservative group is refusing to apologize for plastering Detroit homes with phony eviction notices earlier this week in a bid to get out their message of opposition to a proposed bridge project.

If the only way you can win people to your cause is to lie to them or scare them half to death, is your cause really worth it?

Governor Perry and religious extremism

It's really beginning to seem like the folks who are the most faithful really do have the least faith in us.

Governor Rick Perry of Texas manages to insult not only LGBT people, but people of faith by hooking up with a pretty restrictive faith group. Here's just a taste of some stuff that the AFA has said about homosexuals and Muslims:

“Homosexuality gave us Adolph Hitler, and homosexuals in the military gave us the Brown Shirts, the Nazi war machine and six million dead Jews. Gays in the military is an experiment that has been tried and found disastrously and tragically wanting. Maybe it’s time for Congress to learn a lesson from history.”

“From a constitutional point of view, Muslims have no First Amendment right to build mosques in America. They have that privilege at the moment, but it is a privilege that can be revoked if, as is in fact the case, Islam is a totalitarian ideology dedicated to the destruction of the United States. The Constitution, it bears repeating, is not a suicide pact. For Muslims, patriotism is not the last refuge of a scoundrel, but the First Amendment is.”

Here's a really recent comment:

Here's another from about two years ago. So it's not like this kind of stuff is new or revolutionary or unknown to folks like Perry.

I realize you do what you have to at some level in order to get elected, but really, did you need to associate with this Governor?

Bradlee Dean and the Minnesota Family Council

Cool. Now maybe the world (or at least Minnesotans who intend to vote in 2012) will find out that the marriage amendment isn't so much about gays marrying as it is about gays being all around icky. These two are pieces of work.

Tracy Morgan. Um. Wow? What was he thinking?

Kevin Rogers, who said he attended the comedian’s June 3 show at Ryman Auditorium, detailed the alleged statements in a Facebook note, “Why I No Longer ‘Like’ Tracy Morgan.” Rogers claims that Morgan said being gay is a choice because “God don’t make no mistakes” and that lesbians are “just pretending.”
He also alleges that Morgan said if his son was gay, his child would have to “talk to him like a man,” not a homosexual, or he would stab him to death.

Well. O.k. then. If God doesn't make mistakes, why are there gay people? Perhaps because God doesn't make mistakes and wants them to be here?

It'll be interesting to see how Tracy defends himself. Then again, maybe he won't. Or can't. Because he really believes it. Wow.

When we saw Morgan perform for a sold-out crowd at Carnegie Hall last November, his gay jokes put the audience on edge because they weren't so much jokes as they were angry missives.
In fact, it's been a staple of Morgan's act for months now to simply point out he doesn't believe people can be born gay.
There's no set-up. There's no punchline. And when he says it, you can see the hairs stand up on the necks of the people in front of you.

Santorum is at it again. Or do I mean "still"?

Gotta love how "smaller government" leads to more government control of our lives. Sigh. Rick "Frothy Mix" Santorum (Google it. no really, do)

When I was leading the charge on partial birth abortion, several members came forward and said, "Why don’t we just ban all abortions?" Tom Daschle was one of them, if you remember. And Susan Collins, and others. They wanted a health exception, which of course is a phony exception which would make the ban ineffective.

Although I suppose if we thought about it for a minute, smaller government would free up a lot of government workers to start spying on women of child bearing age. So there's that.

10 weird summer sports. My favorite? Segway polo

Oh my. Whatever happened to sitting on the porch, or swimming in the pool? The ways we humans come up with to entertain ourselves seem never ending. Segway polo seems fun and excessively lazy at the same time.

From Wired.com a list of "10 Insanely Cool Summer Sports to beat the heat"

Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia are scary. Amazing the things that can help some folks.

Wow. I've been reading for several years that Wii games can be appropriate for stroke recovery. But ping pong for Alzheimer's patients.

the ones who stick with it experience big changes in alertness, balance and coordination, Zaretsky said. And they find unexpected little joys their disease hasn't yet extinguished.
I watched and hoped against hope as dementia stole my father from everyone who cared about him. I saw it take a great aunt bit by bit.

There is awful stuff in the world - Alzheimer's for instance - but there are miracles, too.

If you can't run a campaign, how are you going to run the country? On Gingrich

Interesting article on the defection of Gingrich's top campaign staff. But really, if you can't listen to your advisors when you really, really, really want to be president are you going to listen to them when you are?

Newt Gingrich’s troubled campaign for the Republican presidential nomination finally imploded Thursday when the core of his political team, vexed by the candidate’s own erratic performance, quit en masse. The decisive moment came in a meeting at Gingrich’s Washington, D.C. office between the candidate and his top two operatives, campaign manager Rob Johnson and strategist Sam Dawson, who had hoped to convince Gingrich that his approach as a candidate—which one insider described as “appalling”—needed a drastic transformation. When Gingrich did not agree, Johnson and Dawson said they were done.

Republicans running scared ... from other Republicans

I don't know. Maybe I was a lot younger and a lot more naive. Or maybe the Republican party really has changed. I really, really, really remember a time when Republicans worked together for their (then "my") version of the public good. Now they're just eating their own. Kind of sad.

Lake Minnetonka on a windy June day in 2011

Just watching this video make me feel a little seasick. Focus your eye on the bow of the boat. 

P!nk. Raise your glass !!!

Bradlee Dean. The Pride of Minnesota.

Get it? I used Bradlee's name and the word "pride" in the same headline. Nice to see he's taking credit for the upcoming amendment vote and still thinks gays are icky.

Judge not lest ye be judged - unless you're a Republican running for president

Why oh why do we have to listen to folks who don't want religion imposed on them, impose theirs on us?

It just seem odd to me that Herman Cain or Rick Santorum (quick, google him) and others like them keep speaking to the sanctity of marriage and the Bible and so on and yet they deny Christians who disagree with them (not all Christian sects are against gays marrying) and decry the alleged imposition of Shariah here. "Ooooh icky countries are imposing Islam. Hey! I have an idea lets impose Christianity."  Um. How 'bout we agree to disagree and worship God or the Earth Mother or whomever in our own way and according to our own traditions and let other folks do the same and leave government to, oh, I don't know, governing?

Newt

I don't know what to make of the mass resignations at Newt's campaign any more than the pundits. I do have a thought though as one of the articles on the topic that I saw was next to an article on Weiner and his women troubles.

Does anyone but me remember that Newt is a serial husband who cheated on his wives? And yet, somehow, it's perfectly o.k. for him to run for president but Weiner better resign gosh darn it.

It seems hypocritical of me for the public to take one stance on one candidate and an entirely different stance on another politician.

Santorum - smaller government and more religious control

I'm totally not clear on how imposing religious values on folks (i.e. taking away the right to birth control and criminalizing gay relationships) are compatible. Santorum. Yo. Santorum. How does that work?

He told the Conservative Political Action Conference in February that "America belongs to God" and the judiciary has no right to "redefine" life or marriage.

Hmm.

Men have been having affairs for eons does it matter in the public sphere?

Anthony Weiner is just the latest politician on either side of the aisle at either the state or federal level to be caught being unfaithful.

I don't know. Does it matter? It ought to matter to the folks involved, but is it any of my business? Or yours? When those involved are consenting adults (i.e. no one is taking advantage of a vulnerable adult or committing a crime against a child) does it mean anything? Sure, they lie about it. But does that mean they lie about everything or just that our society really, really, really has a problem with sex?

I think it might be the latter.

If you can Google it, the government shouldn't be involved

So. I can Google my name. Does that mean the government shouldn't be taxing me? I'm guessing not. Pawlenty's idea that being able to Google a service or product means the government shouldn't be involved is kind of scary. What with for-profit armies and hospitals and police services. I'm not sure that the idea that the private sector is out for the public good works.

Pawlenty already betrayed the people of Minnesota. don't let him do to the country what he did to us. Only a Republican can take a huge surplus, make it a deficit and blame Democrats. Hmm. kind of sounds like the surplus Bush had when he came into office.

The great power of the Internet. Don't like history? Change it. Palin and Wikipedia

I don't know. I remember being told as a school kid that the Russians - this was during the Cold War mind you - had edited Trotsky out of the history books.

Wikipedia makes the editing of history almost instantaneous. And funny. Sarah Palin supporters are apparently busy changing the Wikipedia entry on Paul Revere so it matches what Sarah said. Wonder if they're droppin' their g's.

This kind of crap is going on with banks and American citizens. And what is Congress focused on?

It never ceases to amaze me. Politicians are beholden to big banks -- I mean funders -- they've forgotten who they were sent to Washington or Sacramento or St. Paul or Austin to represent.

How on earth can a bank foreclose on a couple that paid cash for their home and never had a mortgage? Good for them is all I can say. Just wish they'd drawn out the process for Bank of America as long as the bank drew it out for them.

All-time Michele Bachmann great quotes

Here's one of my favorites:

"Where do we say that a cell became a blade of grass, which became a starfish, which became a cat, which became a donkey, which became a human being? There’s a real lack of evidence from change from actual species to a different type of species. That's where it's difficult to prove."

What's yours? Here's a great selection compiled over at Mother Jones.

Frothy Mix - 10 best (I mean most offensive) quotes

Really, in all America the  man who thinks he's the best to guide us has these sorts of things to say about women, gays, Muslims? We can do better than governing based on fear ... can't we?

Don't forget: Google Santorum and pick the "frothy mix" link.

What is it about men and power?

Or are all men like this and we just don't know because they're not all politicians/actors/celebrities?

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2015249760_apuscongressmantwitterphoto10thldwritethru.html

Rattle My Bones - the Suburbs

Ah. Youth.

How can sprouts be healthy and so very dangerous at the same time.

I'm not a scientist. I don't keep track of every food outbreak ever reported. But it sure seems to me like for the last umpteen years sprouts of some sort - alfalfa, bean, etc. end up being the culprit in more than their fair share of food poisoning outbreaks.

I love sprouts, but for years have always thought twice before eating them. I don't know, maybe it's because they're so small and have so many surfaces, or it's easier to wash a carrot or an apple or whatever.

UPDATE

Or maybe not.

Then again. Maybe.

Xmen First Class. Didn't expect to like it; loved it

I loved the original X-Men movie. I'm always hesitant about remakes/reboots and so on. They so seldom seem to measure up to the original.

X-Men First Class was jolly good fun. The back story of several of the characters was well done. The story itself was interesting. Kevin Bacon's character was very well done.

Best line in the movie? Can't be repeated in polite company. But is executed perfectly and is a great cameo.

Seems I'm not the only one who enjoyed it. It won the worldwide box office.

"Lame stream" media defends Sarah Palin

good lord. Is there anyone who thinks the so-called "midnight ride of Paul Revere" was as simple as the stupid poem? Now, someone from the lame stream media is editing what Sarah Palin said so that it's true.

Go back. See what she said

 

 and then see what she said when she claimed it was a "gotcha" question.

So. even Sarah knew that what she initially said was pretty incomplete.  

Just face it. Folks like her. But not because she says stuff accurately.

And the bigots fall one by one. More Catholic agencies cease adoptions in Illinois.

Ooooh I'm so sad. The Catholic church has taken its marbles and gone home. "gross, we're not going to be forced to allow gays to adopt." Ignore the sexual abuse scandals in the Catholic church. Gays are icky.
Really? They won't do adoptions anymore? GOOD. Bigots don't have a place in our society.

Sarah Palin must have access to Wikipedia

"Gotcha"? What the heck is a "gotcha" question about Paul Revere? Good lord, the "lamestream" crap never stops. 

On Orly Taitz

No. It can't be. Are her 15 minutes of fame finally over? I haven't seen an article in such a long time (and, no, I won't go to her virus-riddled website). It's a kind of morbid fun to watch a train wreck like that in action. It's the reason I watch Sarah Palin videos - in order to see what stream-of-consciousness sound bites really sound like.

Oh well. If her 15 minutes really are up, the media will glom on to someone new any second now.

On Medicare -- do you trust the government or health insurance companies?

I'm not sure I trust either, but given a choice, I totally and completely pick the government. I have health insurance right now. It's provided by the company I work for (I pay a portion of the premium cost; so does my company). I have a $2,400 deductible. That means that before my insurance company kicks in a dime, I have to pay $2,400 toward doctor bills, medicine, lab tests, etc. I've had an unexpected medical issue this year and I met my deductible in March. I'm still fighting with my insurance company as they keep wanting to take more out. Just last week, I had to call and argue with them. And I know darn good and well that I'm one of the lucky ones. Because:

     a.: I have health insurance
     b.: My premiums are pretty low
     c.: I know who to call when stuff gets messed up

E.J. Dionne, opinion writer at The Washington Post, has a recent piece on Rep. Ryan "losing" the Medicare battle.

He's losing because Americans are alarmed that they are paying ever more for coverage, copays and deductibles. And they're weary of battling over health bills with insurance-company bureaucrats.

Rep. Ryan and others who think that the private market is going to serve consumers rather than their own self interest cannot possibly be paying attention to what's going on out here in the real world.

Zac Brown Band -- Knee Deep

And lovin' it. Drop your "g"s everyone! It's folksy and awesome. Close your eyes and think about white sand between your toes, salt air in your nose and a lovely breeze.

Obama gets Osama -- conservative Republicans respond with a collective "so what"

There's just nothing a liberal, fascist, communist, Kenyan, foreigner, atheist, Muslim, Indonesia, terrorist-loving president can do is there? Well, no, not if you're going to go into the conversation with the idea that he's somehow subhuman or stole the election, or isn't worthy, or isn't the right religion, or really even if his mother was white and from Kansas he's funny looking and has a weird name or whatever. There's nothing the guy can do to convince some folks that he cares about America.

Kind of sad, really.

From Gallup's analysis of Obama's latest approval numbers:

Although Americans of all political groups overwhelmingly approved of the U.S. military action that resulted in bin Laden's death, and Americans overall have viewed the president more positively since then, the event moved conservative Republicans much less than other Americans to see Obama in a better light.

and now for something completely different - SPAM

Plus. The song!

Compassionate conservatism. Or not.

I remember being told many years ago something along the lines that "if you're young and conservative you don't have a heart. if you're old and liberal you don't have a brain."

I don't understand how a so-called "Christian" nation can be so callous towards those in need - the poor, the hungry, the elderly.

It's like we're in the movie Thelma and Louise and we've already gone off the cliff and we can't stop until:

a. we land
b. gravity stops working

Amerikkka. it's like living in the 1820's all over again.

Really? Someone being Mormon is a negative when running for president? I wasn't born until after Kennedy was assassinated, but people have told me (and my history lessons agree) that Kennedy being Catholic was a big deal in the 1960's.

The GOP cares about the economy. No, really, they do.

Cool how the GOP cares about the economy when it's time to think about voting. Just wish to hell they cared about the economy once they were elected.

As an example: Minnesota's legislature cared a ton about the economy during the run up to the 2010 elections. Once elected, did they do a full budget or did they focus on restricting abortion rights and getting an amendment on the 2012 ballot that'll define a fucking civil marriage contract as between a man and a woman (one at a time anyway, nothing about "protecting" marriage by outlawing divorce). How many jobs do you suppose that'll create?

Wait. I tinkin'

Sarah Palin mangles history (surprise!) at the Statue of Liberty

"Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

Day in the life of a gay couple

Here's how my day's going so far:
4.00 a.m. alarm goes off. partner walks the puppy and then starts getting ready for work.
5.00 a.m. I get up and walk the puppy again (puppies need lots of walks)
5:20 a.m. partner leaves for work
6:15 ish I scold the puppy for getting into the garbage
6:30 ish my carpool calls to cancel carpool
7:40 a.m. I head for work
around noon: partner texts me to ask about getting those childproof locks for cabinets in order to keep the puppy out of stuff
5:30 home from work
5:45 take the puppy and the dog to town to return library materials and get water (we have a well so buy reverse osmosis water)
6:30 time for dinner

soon, we'll be watching The Illusionist. Oscar nominated for best animated feature.

gay people really do lead extraordinarily dull lives sometimes. Just like heterosexuals I know.

There's something narcissistic about a blog - I wanna talk about me!

But it's fun!