Thursday, March 31, 2005
Tuesday, March 29, 2005
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday Liz! We'll see how long it takes for me to get something to you. Last year was a bit of a fluke, seeing you just a few weeks before your birthday and all.For those of you wondering who Liz is, she's my oldest and best friend. She know more embarrasing stories about my past than just about anyone, so if you ever need any dirt on my, she'd be the one to bribe. :-)
Saturday, March 26, 2005
Oh, and by the way...
As much as I enjoy getting to sing again, being involved in a church choir during this past week takes a lot out of you. Let's just say I'll be happy when tomorrow afternoon rolls around.The last week.
Sarcastic posts aside, I have been a bit on the busy side the last week, and lacking in enough free time to try and post anything that makes any sense. It's a bit of a quiet afternoon, so now's my chance to dribble a little bit.First, only because virtually everyone feels it's their duty to comment on it. Terri Schiavo. There. I said it. Having said it, this is probably the most sensible analysis I've read of the entire sideshow. That's what it's degenerated into. A fuckin' circus sideshow. And (if you can't tell), it pisses me off. Let the woman's body die in peace (the rest of her died 15 years ago, by all medical accounts). Most importantly, what business does anyone other than her husband have in deciding when to end life support? After all, don't these people respect the sanctity of marriage? And isn't one of the fundamental components of that institution that the person you're married to is you're next of kin, with the full legal authority to make chioces when you're unable to?
When talking to Republican friends of mine (yes, I do actually have friends that think differently than I do) they seem to deeply believe that the GOP is the "party of smaller government." Really? A party whose members want to control what you know about safe sex, when you conceive, if you're allowed to terminate the pregnancy, say nary a word about actually supporting children (score one point for a smaller government), now want to control when you can die? Is there nothing they don't want to control?
Yup, they are masochistic Puritans. They probably do want to hasten global warming in an effort to bring about the end of the world. Heck, I'm sure some of them can't orgasm unless they kill a dog. Ok, maybe that last one was a bit over the top. But really, when they're checking in to make sure that foreign policy doesn't delay the Rapture something is really wrong.