Kevin is messing around with lawver.net, which means I can’t blog on my own. Everything has to go through him now, until he is done “fixing” it. This is why I haven’t blogged in awhile. I cry foul and censorship! I know you all are dying to know what I think about the Haggard scandal, the upcoming election, the botched Kerry joke, and especially the latest Veronica Mars and Supernatural. But, well, too bad. Blame Kevin. (eta- he fixed the blog!) Today I will blog about nothing important, which is kind of appropriate given my chosen topic.\
I am the worst kind of procrastinator. When I procrastinate, I usually don’t just do nothing. I end up doing unimportant (relative to my ‘to do’ list) things, which leaves me too tired to tackle the real list. This morning I have errands, dishes, and laundry waiting for me. But instead, I busied myself rearranging the living room slightly and moving things out that don’t belong. In high school when I wanted to avoid homework, I would clean my room and when I wanted to avoid cleaning my room, I would do homework. There are a million toys that need to be picked up from the dining room but I think I will go organize my pantry instead. Toodles!\
ETA- I received two more definitions for my favorite new unword, “provolactic.”\
Aunt Margie, showing her PA heritage, claims it is the lack of provolone cheese in the fridge thus preventing the making of a homemade Italian Hoagie. I bet she would be really jealous to know that I found authentic sweet peppers for hoagies at my local grocery store. It only took 6 years, but they’ve finally arrived in Sterling!\
Tim thinks it is the position, or a person favoring the position, that cows should be given the right of choice, or volition, as to what happens with their milk. Closely related to vegans.
Month: November 2006
The Virginia “Marriage” Amendment
A good editorial from Slate about the “unintended” consequences of the Virginia marriage amendment. Baking bigotry and small-mindedness in our state’s Constitution is a bad idea. It will put undue pressure on families, more of which fall outside the traditional definition of the nuclear family than fall within it.\
Creating great new chasms for people to fall into is not a way to strengthen marriage. Paying attention to your own marriage and keeping your nose out of everyone else’s would be a fine way to start. Us heteros have no right “defending” marriage when our divorce rate is already over 50%. Like Jesus says (paraphrasing here), “work on the beam in your own eye before pointing out the speck in your neighbor’s.” Codifying this nonsense is ridiculous.\
Vote no, people, vote no! The only thing that can “defend” marriage is good marriages. You can’t force that on people, and discrimination isn’t going to help anyone.
Hobbes Says, “Don’t Forget to Vote!”
Remember, election day is next Tuesday. No matter what party you’re in, this election is important. Get out there and send a message to whoever it is you’re trying to send a message to. For me, it comes down to a couple issues that are important to me:
- George Allen is President Bush’s lackey, voting with him 96% of the time.
- President Bush is incompetent and his party has no spine to stand up to him. They’ve proven over the last six years that they’re more interested in power than doing what’s right.
- The GOP is beholden to the Religious Right, and that’s wrong on so many levels. Most importantly, they’re standing in the way of stem cell research, which is unconscionable.
- They refuse to admit that Iraq was a mistake when the evidence is overwhelming that the President and his Administration lied, and continue to lie, about their incompetence, the reasons for going in, and their plan for success. Saying you’ve got a plan and declaring your loyalty to Donald Rumsfeld is not a plan. It’s willfully ignorant and stubborn. If I wanted a child as President, I think Max would do a better job than Mr. Bush and his playground bullies.
- What used to be the party of smaller government and less intrusion on our lives has become the party of Big Brother, and I don’t mean the TV show. They’ve wiped their asses on the Constitution, and it’s time they paid for it.\
It’s pretty obvious who I’m voting for. Vote for whoever you think will do the best job of governing. See ya on Tuesday!