This is the best day of my life.
It's coming back. The best show in the universe, ever, is going to be making new episodes for 2005.
If Bush could read, I'd want him to read this.
MSNBC - An Unusual Love Story - Someone should force-feed this story to opponents of gay marriage. It shows that homosexuality happens in nature, and it's not just something a bunch of overly-flamboyant men and curiously aggressive women invented to piss off Republicans. While straight people might never understand how Ted can find Bill attractive, it's not our right to tell them they can't have equal rights.
If you watch video of Strom Thurmond or other anti-civil rights leaders back in their heyday, you're struck by just how stupid and ignorant they look now. Bush's decision today to back a ban on gay marriage will be one of the major scars (and there will be many) on his presidency when it is looked back upon by future generations.
Not surprising.
MSNBC - Bush endorses constitutional ban on gay marriage - That's the last nail in the coffin for me -- Bush is an asshole.
Last night's Daily Show on Comedy Central was great. One of the "correspondents" said he was strongly against gay marriage, and when Jon Stewart asked him why, he responded, "The only reason my wife and I got married in the first place was because it was something gays couldn't do!"
Come on.
CNN.com - Is the low-carb backlash beginning? - Feb. 23, 2004 - "The Atkins diet, which tells followers they may eat liberal amounts of bacon, eggs, cream and other high-fat products, is widely considered to be the most extreme low-carb diet."
It bears repeating... is it too much to ask that the media actually read the book? That's
not what it says to do in the Atkins book. In fact, Atkins complains in the book that everyone thinks that's what his message is when they don't read his book. The Atkins diet: Meat, fish, poultry, eggs, small amounts of cheese,
lots of vegetables, whole-wheat bread and pasta (in moderate amounts), fruit (especially berries), and you avoid: Sugar,
white bread/pasta/rice, and potatoes. For
just the first two weeks, you eat a higher concentration of fat and very few carbs, but even then you're not supposed to be pounding "liberal amounts" of bacon down with every meal.
I don't know why this bugs me so much. I'm not "on Atkins," but I'm trying to avoid the foods he tells you to avoid because it makes really, really good sense to do so.
Way to play nice!
MSNBC - Federal prosecutor sues Ashcroft - "A federal prosecutor in a major terrorism case in Detroit has taken the rare step of suing Attorney General John Ashcroft, alleging the Justice Department interfered with the case, compromised a confidential informant and exaggerated results in the war on terrorism."
It's great to see that departments of the federal government are suing
each other now. This must be a highly efficient form of leadership we have working for us in this country.
Dave Barry
The Miami Herald | 02/08/2004 | Red alert! W dreams - "As I write these words, we have yet another probe scooting around on Mars, and it has been sending back exquisitely detailed photographs of: rocks. At this point, I, for one, am willing to stipulate that Mars is, basically, covered with rocks, but our space scientists apparently do not intend to stop until they obtain photographs of every last one of them."
Good!!!!
- "CNN.com - Pharmacists fired for denying 'morning after' pill - Feb. 12, 2004: "Eckerd Corp. has fired three pharmacists who declined to fill an emergency contraception prescription for a woman who had been raped, one of the pharmacists said.
Gene Herr said Wednesday he and two co-workers were fired January 29, six days after refusing to fill the prescription. He said his own refusal was based on religious grounds."
The day you let your religious beliefs get in the way of someone else's well-being or happiness is the day I stop caring if you exist.
Iran away
MSNBC - In Iran, a kinder view of Uncle Sam - "Senior Iranian officials said they do not expect serious progress until after the U.S. presidential election and Iran’s own contest for a new president in 2005." - Does everyone hear that?
No progress until Bush is gone, the guy who called us a part of the "Axis of Evil" for no apparent reason. That's what I hear.
Sniper's childhood...
CNN.com - Sniper's siblings describe violent upbringing - Feb. 10, 2004: "Three siblings of convicted sniper John Muhammad said he was regularly and severely beaten as a child by several relatives, including an uncle who beat another child to death at a Louisiana reform school.
'Our life was pure hell,' said Aurolyn Marie Williams, one of Muhammad's sisters. 'We just got beat. I wouldn't wish the life I had ... on my worst enemy.' She said all six Williams children were beaten with electrical cords, switches, hose pipe and by hands."
It's hard for anything to make me feel any compassion at all for the Washington snipers, but this came close.
Another day, another ridiculous story
Why wasn't he in jail?
CNN.com - Police certain they have car used in girl's abduction - Feb. 5, 2004 - "According to records from the Manatee County Sheriff's Department, a woman said he grabbed her as she was walking along a street and threatened to "cut her if she failed to remain quiet." A passing vehicle stopped and intervened, allowing her to flee, the record said.
The record also said Smith told authorities "he had been in an altercation earlier" that evening "and wanted somebody to walk with." His acquittal came a year later.
A few months before the incident in Manatee, Smith was convicted of carrying a concealed weapon -- a knife, according to his arrest record from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
Smith has faced numerous drug charges, and in 2001 was convicted of heroin possession, possession of controlled substances, and attempting to obtain controlled substances by fraudulent means. He served a little more than a year in prison."
They aquitted someone who had clearly just tried to kidnap someone a YEAR after it happened? Clearly he's messed up and will do it again!
Money money
CNN.com - Kerry fends off attacks over fund raising - Feb. 2, 2004 - Money shouldn't be such a big deal to political campaigns. It should be about the issues, and the best campaigner should always win. Why not make it a requirement for each candidate to use the same amount of public money, and make it illegal for them to raise any money on their own? I guess then every schlub on the planet would try to run for president... but you could find a way around that with petitions or something.
