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Jon Stewart rubs me the wrong way sometimes but when the guy gets hot he catches on fire. This thing with Stewart and Jim Cramer that's been smoking around the internet was what everybody thought real news reporting was supposed to look like. If you haven't seen it, you really should. I love when Stewart busts out like that, but, you know, it's on our comedy channel. It's funny 'cause it's soul-crushing.

DOMA might get some cracks in it soonish. This is not the sort of challenge that is likely to overturn it entirely, so I will probably not follow it very closely. I'd have blogged the California thing but I am so fucking sick of talking about marriage. The only reason I even care about it at all is that every time I run the general equality analysis it dumps out that winning marriage is our quickest bestest shot at cresting Equality Hill, and I care very much about equality. Sponserbilities are fustrating.

WTF, FLG? I'm so angry over this story I have written three lengthy posts about it but they are all too ranty to put up. I know people in that town. I do a lot of eyerolling and sighing at the superstitious gay-haters, of course, but imo it's always far worse to be fucked over by someone who's supposed to have your back than by people who run right at you calling it out exactly how it's coming down. In an odd and backhanded way I actually respect some of the people who openly and honestly hate me a lot more than I respect some of the people who think of themselves as queer allies but then treat our equality like a rerun of a television show they didn't even want to watch the first time it was on.

Doesn't anyone at the Fox network read their pilot scripts? If you saw the pilot episode of Dollhouse and thought "meh", here's the script. That this wasn't what aired is more proof on the pile that they should just pinkslip all their execs and start over. Rather than letting the boy alone and letting him do his thing, they keep trying to "help" and they're killing everything smart and good about what he does. Hey, it's just like the superstitious gay-haters!

Heh, Leonardo da Vinci was kinda hot. (link goes to video)

If I never hear the phrase "gold star lesbian" again it will be eons too soon. What is with these women who treat the penis as if it's some kind of pollutant of the female body? It washes off, ladies. And not for nothing do I casually mention in passing that gauging one's worth, value or status as a lesbian according to whether one has touched a penis is a damn strange arrangement of lesbianism. Why, it's almost like these women think the penis is so almighty and important that one ought to arrange one's entire identity in relation to it, as if it is The Primary Referent, which I think, give me a minute to do the arithmetickin, carry the balls, yep, makes them gay men.

So we're just going to let this rich-fuck-over-the-poor shit go, aren't we? I mean, we're going to hoot and holler while Jon Stewart tells Jim Cramer off, but we're not going to do one damn serious thing about the stuff that causes this, right? We're basically just going to aim for re-establishing the status quo, the same arrangement of bells, lights and bumpers we had right before the pinball machine that is our national economy started blinking TILT? We should've elected the ghost of Hunter S. Thompson and at least made this thing more fun to watch on tv.

I guess for solace there's the fact that this last thing wouldn't be half as damn hilarious if we weren't all so stupid. Do's & Don'ts for baby handling.

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