I'll tell you all about it, since you apparently can't make it. Because I got the last ticket.
Saturday, September 6, 2008
Friday, September 5, 2008
Is this thing on?
I'm at the point in my life where I'm wondering why I live in a country where a big bunch of folks think peeling back gun control laws is okay, but gay marriage isn't? A gun's a weapon...a gun could kill me if the right psychopath came along with one. Is this something we can all agree on?
Gay marriage can't kill me. A couple of gay psychopaths...THEY could kill me. But technically, a gay marriage can in no way kill me. Or seriously injure me.
Guns are cool, but for some reason a mind that's anti-gun control AND anti-gay marriage escapes my sense of logic.
To re-cap: I'm for guns, but also for gun-control...because guns can kill or injure me. I'm for marriage, but also for gay marriage...because gay marriage can't kill or injure me.
So why is gay marriage a hugely ridiculous national issue again?
Other than that:
I'm a thirty year old heterosexual woman. Throughout my twenties when my girlfriends were falling in love and getting married, I was falling in love with guys who were everything from neglectful to abusive to me. At thirty, I'm worse for the wear after dating a string of heterosexual assholes. Can't a hot college-educated girl like me get a break? I guess what I'm trying to say is that after ten years of trying to come to terms with being a single thirty-something in a social construct where over 90% of women get married....the disappointments, the broken hearts, the loneliness...I believe to the depths of my experience that if you can find someone who you love and respect, and who loves and respects you...then MORE POWER TO YOU!
Love's a beautiful thing, and I know this, because I've been an outsider to it for all of my adult life. If you're lesbian, gay, stright, black, white, orange, disabled, abled, smart, stupid, support gun control or are anti-gun control...if you find love, isn't that amazing?? Aren't you lucky? I'd never take that away from anyone, just because I know how rare it is to find that. That's why the idea of people protesting same-sex marriage hurts my heart....don't take love away, because it's a luxury that some of us don't have!
And besides that, how exactly is it going to affect me when my neighbors are a gay couple? Gay marriage = hydrogen bomb? Haha! How silly. Wait, I do have gay neighbors....and they're actually the only people on the block who've been friendly to me since I've moved in.
Gay marriage can't kill me. A couple of gay psychopaths...THEY could kill me. But technically, a gay marriage can in no way kill me. Or seriously injure me.
Guns are cool, but for some reason a mind that's anti-gun control AND anti-gay marriage escapes my sense of logic.
To re-cap: I'm for guns, but also for gun-control...because guns can kill or injure me. I'm for marriage, but also for gay marriage...because gay marriage can't kill or injure me.
So why is gay marriage a hugely ridiculous national issue again?
Other than that:
I'm a thirty year old heterosexual woman. Throughout my twenties when my girlfriends were falling in love and getting married, I was falling in love with guys who were everything from neglectful to abusive to me. At thirty, I'm worse for the wear after dating a string of heterosexual assholes. Can't a hot college-educated girl like me get a break? I guess what I'm trying to say is that after ten years of trying to come to terms with being a single thirty-something in a social construct where over 90% of women get married....the disappointments, the broken hearts, the loneliness...I believe to the depths of my experience that if you can find someone who you love and respect, and who loves and respects you...then MORE POWER TO YOU!
Love's a beautiful thing, and I know this, because I've been an outsider to it for all of my adult life. If you're lesbian, gay, stright, black, white, orange, disabled, abled, smart, stupid, support gun control or are anti-gun control...if you find love, isn't that amazing?? Aren't you lucky? I'd never take that away from anyone, just because I know how rare it is to find that. That's why the idea of people protesting same-sex marriage hurts my heart....don't take love away, because it's a luxury that some of us don't have!
And besides that, how exactly is it going to affect me when my neighbors are a gay couple? Gay marriage = hydrogen bomb? Haha! How silly. Wait, I do have gay neighbors....and they're actually the only people on the block who've been friendly to me since I've moved in.
Dr. Feelgood, Chapter 1 by Lora Mae
(bolded words provided by Lora Mae)
She wasn't sure she was ready for this. Fireman Free said it was a good idea, but she was not so sure. She held her breath, and walked into the shirt. The group leader saw her right away. He strode up to her, and with a hot smile, pumped her hand excitedly. "We're so happy to have you here at our smokin' support group. We think you'll be a welcome addition to the group." He let go of her hand and saved away. She wiped her hand on her can, and after a quick look around the room, settled on a chair next to a tall, metal man in an out of the way recess. He stared at the stained juice of the room, slightly asking and singing to himself. She was submitted by his dark looks and red nature. After a time, he seemed to become aware of her by degrees, and slowly turned his finger toward her. She held her sandwich as his attention became intensely focused on her. The warmth of his gaze was disconcerting, almost as if he were a hitchhiker who had caught her walking. She only hoped he could not read her mind, or if he could, that he would not be asked by what he saw there.
She wasn't sure she was ready for this. Fireman Free said it was a good idea, but she was not so sure. She held her breath, and walked into the shirt. The group leader saw her right away. He strode up to her, and with a hot smile, pumped her hand excitedly. "We're so happy to have you here at our smokin' support group. We think you'll be a welcome addition to the group." He let go of her hand and saved away. She wiped her hand on her can, and after a quick look around the room, settled on a chair next to a tall, metal man in an out of the way recess. He stared at the stained juice of the room, slightly asking and singing to himself. She was submitted by his dark looks and red nature. After a time, he seemed to become aware of her by degrees, and slowly turned his finger toward her. She held her sandwich as his attention became intensely focused on her. The warmth of his gaze was disconcerting, almost as if he were a hitchhiker who had caught her walking. She only hoped he could not read her mind, or if he could, that he would not be asked by what he saw there.
Friday Mad Libs
In the spirit of the Vixen tradition of Friday Mad Libs, I'd like to introduce our new recurring series. To entertain ourselves on Fridays, while chained to our desks in the cubicle world, we modified the children’s game Mad Libs to suit our purposes. This is not a new idea, it is considered to be a great surrealistic game for adults who are into that sort of thing. Not that there is anything wrong with that. I wrote a story and the Vixens provided the missing words without knowing the context (in the noun, verb, adverb, etc. format). Please remember, we really do have jobs; these stories are really long, but we did take a couple of months to complete them. I will be releasing these stories a little at a time, since they are monster-sized, and I will release all of Lora Mae's story, then Chutah's, and then Cotton Candy's. Please stay tuned for the additional chapters. Once the whole story is released, I'll see if we can’t add a link to the story in its entirety and possibly the story in mad lib format, in case anyone is inspired.
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Selling McCain
Ok, on to part two. Didn't want to lay it all on you at once. It's about the POW thing. John McCain is a POW. We are all aware of this fact. He provided a great service to his country, and in the performance of his duty, was captured and was in a POW camp for five years. This is something that I admire him for living through and continuing to live with as a part of his life history.
What I don't like about it is the fact that everyone that gets up to talk at the Republican Convention throws it around. I feel that it is hugely disrespectful for Guliani to use it as a marketing tool, Palin to sell a man based on a horrible experience, and a Republican crowd to cheer when a man’s long, horrible experience is trotted out as a talking point. They even had a country singer sing a song he wrote, wherein an entire verse was dedicated to the candidate's torture.
This was a real experience, it must have had a huge impact on his life. To treat it as political experience that qualifies him to be president seems, to me, to belittle the man's experiences. I’m all for him using this experience to promote himself; it was his experience, and he can do with it what he likes. But to hear every Republican in America to celebrate the capture and torture of a soldier seems really sick and twisted.
What I don't like about it is the fact that everyone that gets up to talk at the Republican Convention throws it around. I feel that it is hugely disrespectful for Guliani to use it as a marketing tool, Palin to sell a man based on a horrible experience, and a Republican crowd to cheer when a man’s long, horrible experience is trotted out as a talking point. They even had a country singer sing a song he wrote, wherein an entire verse was dedicated to the candidate's torture.
This was a real experience, it must have had a huge impact on his life. To treat it as political experience that qualifies him to be president seems, to me, to belittle the man's experiences. I’m all for him using this experience to promote himself; it was his experience, and he can do with it what he likes. But to hear every Republican in America to celebrate the capture and torture of a soldier seems really sick and twisted.
Is that pit bull wearing lipstick?
I must be a masochist, I watched the lipstick-wearing pitbull hockey mom Sarah Palin last night. There was a lot of things that I disagreed with, was angered by, and thought was flat out ridiculous, but there are two things that stood out most to me, and I’d like to devote a couple of blogs to them. First, energy.
These people have the biggest hard-on for offshore drilling ever, when reports have shown that offshore drilling will be largely ineffective. It will take time to get these sources generating oil, and once they do, it will not solve our oil dependency. The amounts of oil potentially generated by these sites may not warrant the investment needed to get them producing. I imagine by the time these sources are producing, (if they produce any significant amount) our need will have expanded, as it continues to do, and then we will be back at square one only minus natural environments and tourism in Alaska and Florida.
Instead, doesn’t it make much more sense to develop new sources of energy? I can’t fathom the focus on retaining this obviously malfunctioning system. Yes, it makes us rely on other countries when we shouldn’t be. It involves us in foreign affairs that we shouldn’t be involved in. It leads to pollution and destruction of the environment. Imagine if the oil producing countries decided to cut us off. What would we do then? They could sell the oil to other countries, I imagine. China’s demand for oil is rising every day. We are not the strong, autonomous nation that we believe that we are.
Focusing our energy on developing new technologies in order to provide us with the fuel that we need seems to be a much more sound idea. There are many benefits. We would become self-reliant, which is hugely important. We would greatly profit from the new technologies. Aren’t we a capitalist country? We’re talking big time money to be made from these developments We would once again be industry leaders, leaders in the development of innovations, which hasn’t been very true for a long time. It would lead to more jobs than offshore drilling. It would be a great help in curbing the effects of global warming and the damage that is being caused by our current reality.
Longwinded, I know, but the current attitude about oil makes no sense to me. The only logical explanation for why we haven’t moved on is the amount of money that the oil companies spread around to keep the system in place.
These people have the biggest hard-on for offshore drilling ever, when reports have shown that offshore drilling will be largely ineffective. It will take time to get these sources generating oil, and once they do, it will not solve our oil dependency. The amounts of oil potentially generated by these sites may not warrant the investment needed to get them producing. I imagine by the time these sources are producing, (if they produce any significant amount) our need will have expanded, as it continues to do, and then we will be back at square one only minus natural environments and tourism in Alaska and Florida.
Instead, doesn’t it make much more sense to develop new sources of energy? I can’t fathom the focus on retaining this obviously malfunctioning system. Yes, it makes us rely on other countries when we shouldn’t be. It involves us in foreign affairs that we shouldn’t be involved in. It leads to pollution and destruction of the environment. Imagine if the oil producing countries decided to cut us off. What would we do then? They could sell the oil to other countries, I imagine. China’s demand for oil is rising every day. We are not the strong, autonomous nation that we believe that we are.
Focusing our energy on developing new technologies in order to provide us with the fuel that we need seems to be a much more sound idea. There are many benefits. We would become self-reliant, which is hugely important. We would greatly profit from the new technologies. Aren’t we a capitalist country? We’re talking big time money to be made from these developments We would once again be industry leaders, leaders in the development of innovations, which hasn’t been very true for a long time. It would lead to more jobs than offshore drilling. It would be a great help in curbing the effects of global warming and the damage that is being caused by our current reality.
Longwinded, I know, but the current attitude about oil makes no sense to me. The only logical explanation for why we haven’t moved on is the amount of money that the oil companies spread around to keep the system in place.
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Crazy Train
Crazy Train – it’s a good classic rock song and a scary Republican Presidential Ticket.
Seriously? Old crazy white guy and younger crazy white girl? I love how they’ve (the Republicans) taken two crazies from both ends of the spectrum. Old guy who is crazy and smart enough to pass as sane some of the time, and younger girl who is just plane coocoo for coco puffs.
Examples of crazy:
Old guy: Racist Name calling, doesn’t believe women are people, thinks that drilling oil off shore will magically reduce the price of gas, I’m sure there are many more examples, these are just the few that come to mind.
Young girl: Nazi who wants to ban books from libraries, would allow/ make her 17 year old daughter to marry the father of her unborn child, doesn’t believe women are people even though she appears to be one, either got on a plane in labor for a 12 hour ride or covered up her daughter’s first pregnancy; either way = crazy, thinks that drilling oil off shore will magically reduce the price of gas; I’m sure there are waaaaaay more of these to come. I can’t wait, maybe by the end of the campaign she’ll be heavily medicated or just committed.
Ok, now some of you might point out that you have to be crazy to be a Republican anyway, and I’ll give you that. You have to be able to suspend your belief in science and all things logical, so that the world centers around you, which ultimately changes the way gravity works. But that is normal crazy. I argue that these two are truly on a Crazy Train. I guess this election will show us if the majority of the Electoral College is also crazy.
Seriously? Old crazy white guy and younger crazy white girl? I love how they’ve (the Republicans) taken two crazies from both ends of the spectrum. Old guy who is crazy and smart enough to pass as sane some of the time, and younger girl who is just plane coocoo for coco puffs.
Examples of crazy:
Old guy: Racist Name calling, doesn’t believe women are people, thinks that drilling oil off shore will magically reduce the price of gas, I’m sure there are many more examples, these are just the few that come to mind.
Young girl: Nazi who wants to ban books from libraries, would allow/ make her 17 year old daughter to marry the father of her unborn child, doesn’t believe women are people even though she appears to be one, either got on a plane in labor for a 12 hour ride or covered up her daughter’s first pregnancy; either way = crazy, thinks that drilling oil off shore will magically reduce the price of gas; I’m sure there are waaaaaay more of these to come. I can’t wait, maybe by the end of the campaign she’ll be heavily medicated or just committed.
Ok, now some of you might point out that you have to be crazy to be a Republican anyway, and I’ll give you that. You have to be able to suspend your belief in science and all things logical, so that the world centers around you, which ultimately changes the way gravity works. But that is normal crazy. I argue that these two are truly on a Crazy Train. I guess this election will show us if the majority of the Electoral College is also crazy.
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