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Tis the season

To get REALLY stressed out… LORD… Don’t get me wrong. Christmas time is nice and all – but why is it that all the stresses in my life collide at this time EVERY YEAR. You’d think I’d have learned to deal with it by now – but it just gets my stomach tied up in knots… Work – House stuff – Travel for the holidays – Christmas shopping… It all is makin me CRAZY right now.. Oh.. And I would REALLY like to thank the city and county of San Francisco for making property taxes due on December 10th and my supplemental due on December 31st. I do appreciate it..

*sigh*… Ah well.. just gotta suck it up and do the best I can! 😉

Did enjoy having some time off from work though!

On Marriage

A friend of mine just pointed me at this article entitled Holy Matrimony: What’s really undermining the sanctity of marriage? By Dahlia Lithwick on Slate. She has done an outstanding job of distilling down the issue in a clear and meaningful way. Many of the arguments I’ve heard a number of times but and still ring true. However this part of the article really hit the nail on the head for me:

Here’s why marriage will likely survive last week’s crushing decision out of Massachusetts: Because despite all the horrors of Section 4, above, human beings want and deserve a soul mate; someone to grow old with, someone who thinks our dopey entry in the New Yorker cartoon competition is hilarious, and someone to help carry the shopping bags. Gay couples have asked the state to explain why such privileges should be denied them and have yet to receive an answer that is credible.

What really gets me about these arguments is the tone they take. Those who support basic human rights for gays and lesbians (marriage, domestic partner benefits, or whatever) consistently do so with clear logical arguments which seem to be presented with calmness and dignity. I was pawing through the archives that our GLTB group at work kept on the process of lobbying for DP Benefits back in 1992. After reading the justification, the research that backed the presentation, as well as watching the video tape of the presentation I couldn’t imagine any opposition to its adoption because they made it clear that it was just the right thing to do – from every angle.

Those who oppose these basic rights seem to base their arguments on historical dogma that doesn’t hold up to scrutiny and they do it with a very thinly veiled contempt (and hate) for those who don’t share their beliefs. I’m the FIRST to admit I’m clearly biased on this issue, however I would be very interested to read an opposing position that was introspective, well thought out and divorced from prejudice. Even if I didn’t agree with the points making I could at least respect the case presented. As it stands these arguments come across as thinly veiled justification for bigotry using the same arguments that have been used throughout history against numerous other groups of people. There’s a good reason why the keep finding the way they do – because they have to. The arguments don’t hold up to scrutiny.

I won’t even START on this Constitutional ammendment thing – I need breakfast and don’t need to get riled up.

Anyway… Enough preaching…

Queer Eye

Oh my LORD… The full hour long Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is on NBC at 8pm tonight.. Maybe I just haven’t been paying attention but 5 gay boys on the biggest network in prime time seems pretty big to me… This is the kind of shit that must send Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell into a RAGE.. I LOVE it! 🙂 ( I just checked too – its playing in central Illinois and North Carolina too – so its not just San Francisco… woo hoo! :):) )

And I really liked this episode too (the one with the 70s model turned taxidermist in the suburbs).. Was a really great family – very sweet.. :

Anyway – probably not news to anyone else but made my night… ( and I still think Kyan is still hot as balls! :):) )

oh – and Cirque du Soleil – Varakai is on bravo tonight. Kevin and I saw it when it was in town – FANTASTIC

( in case you can’t tell – I’m reveling in being a home body tonight… 😉 :):) )

Ever notice

That they never change the stuff in the West Elm catalog? I like the aesthetic but I keep hoping that they’ll add stuff that would actually work in our place..

I’m just sayin… 🙂

(BTW – MAN is it nice having this whole week off of work… not getting as much done as I would have liked though)..

Random fun for a Sunday

Just waking up and finding a bunch of silly things I thought I’d share! :):)

• Cyndi Lauper’s new album is Flippin GREAT… That womman has some pipes on her..
  
• Madonna is 5’4″ Tall… (Found that here – The Movie Times site is kinda cool)
  
• Turns out Ringo Starr, Pierre Cardin, Shelly Duvall, Michelle Kwan, and Doc Severinson all have the same birthday as I do and Darrin Fletcher (whoever he is) was both born on the same day (though I’d bet money I was born earlier in the day)… Found this here
  
• I freakin LOVE The West Wing… Its a very smart show that does a great job of depicting a moral and noble President and a staff who truely want to make the country a better place – all things we could REALLY use right now.. Right now I’m watching an episode where the father of a gay man who died in a bashing is refusing to support the President’s hate crime bill, not because he’s embarrassed by his son’s sexuality, but because the President isn’t doing enough… That and this speech to a Dr. Laura like character (Here is the actual text of the speech – well worth a read)… Gives me Chills.
  

Friday 5 – November 21

1. List five things you’d like to accomplish by the end of the year.
   Oh my LORD… I’ve got SO Much to accomplish by then if I could get just five I’d be THRILLED… How ’bout these:
   1. Meet my deadlines for work.
   2. Get a few Christmas cards out.
   3. Get issues with our electrical upgrade worked out with PG&E.
   4. Arrange for having city inspections for our condo conversion.
   5. Arrange for having Maps for our condo conversion made.

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