How the Idiot Son of an Asshole could let this become a campaign issue is beyond me, but Billmon will discuss it with you, and so will Josh Marshall.
Personally, I don't think much of the institution of marriage as it stands anyway - it's all about taxes and property, not a spiritual bond between hearts and souls. And as for the political scene surrounding the gay marriage issue, I'm with Mark Morford:
| Mayor Richard Daley said he would have "no problem" with Cook County issuing marriage licenses to gay couples in Chicago, the nation's third largest city. Entering a national debate over gay marriage, Daley urged sympathy for same-sex couples because "they love each other just as much as anyone else." Daley also dismissed a suggestion that marriage between gay couples would undermine the institution. "Marriage has been undermined by divorce, so don't tell me about marriage," he said. "Don't blame the gay and lesbian, transgender and transsexual community." Meanwhile, the planet totally melted down as earthquakes rocked the globe and giant fire-breathing bees of death swarmed the countryside feasting on fat white heterosexual babies mostly from Texas and Colorado and Utah and Idaho, as the institution of hetero marriage careened around the vortex of time/space like a savage pinball on skank-ass black-tar heroin, just like the hand-wringin' pseudo-sanctimonious Christian Right predicted. Horrors bled into the streets, presidents lied so as to lead a nation into bloody violent unwinnable war, tens of thousands of Catholic priests groped and molested countless children over a 50-year period without the slightest punishment, the environment teetered on the brink due to government rollbacks as air quality and water quality and food sources were ravaged in the name of corporate profiteering, the economy crumbled like Jenna Bush after her tenth beer bong. Oh wait. That was all *before* the gay marriage thing. Right right right. |
A bit of cursing history
Thanks to an email from Charles, I now have another bit of interesting but not particularly useful information which I can pass on to you.
| In the 16th and 17th centuries, everything had to be transported by ship. It was also before commercial fertilizer's invention, so large shipments of manure were common. It was shipped dry, because in dry form it weighed a lot less than when wet, but once water (at sea) hit it, it not only became heavier, but the process of fermentation began again, of which a by-product is methane gas.
As the stuff was stored below decks in bundles you can see what could (and did) happen. Methane began to build up below decks, and the first time someone came below at night, with a lantern, BOOOOM!! Several ships were destroyed in this manner before it was determined just what was happening. After that, the bundles of manure were always stamped with the term, "Ship High In Transit," on them, which meant for the sailors to stow it high enough off the lower decks so that any water that came into the hold would not touch this volatile cargo and start the production of methane. Thus evolved the term "S.H.I.T," which has come down through the centuries and is in use to this very day. |
Isn't it just?
The Smirking Chimp
Just a little game. You've probably already played. Play again.
Bush Unmasked
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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