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The California Supreme Court upheld Proposition 8 which puts a statewide constitutional ban against gay marriage. This continues the state’s indecisiveness on the issue, begun (to my offhand knowledge) by the major of San Francisco and continuing to today’s point.
For non-heterosexual State Department employees, on the other hand, US Ambassador Michael Guest speculates that same-sex partner benefits may be established within “weeks”.
It was also announced today that President Obama’s pick for the Supreme Court is Sonia Sotomayor. Although not the radical, feminist lesbian with “Roe v. Wade rocks my world” tatooed on her arm (as NPR’s “Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me” recently baited my hopes with), she should be at least a centrist bridge between the majority conservative and the…others.
This thereby marks the end for the once-seemingly endless “Obama shortlist” posts and journalist entries around the web, so we can once again focus on other things….like debating waterboarding.
Which, by the way, even McCain says is torture. Come on, only Hannity and few others — who wouldn’t even take up Olbermann’s challenge that for every second the former withstood waterboarding, Olbermann would donate $1,000 to veteran charity — still think it’s just a form of interrogation.
All this silly headline crap, however, going back and forth between the parties — I’m thinking specifically the current case in which the straggler republicans are trying to create a democrat-witch-hunt by going after Nancy Pelosi — is just frustrating fodder for discussions that only address the manifestations of truly deep systemic issues.
Just a rant, so I digress for now but am likely to spontaneously pick up the thread later. I’m gearing up for another list post, this one on racial and cultural identity. If you have any suggestions, I’d love to have them.
Vietnam Veteran Gravestone
So in certain airports probably near you, TSA employees in secure remote places are checking out your privates.
Courtesy of RageAgainstTheManchine
While I suppose it’s a technological breakthrough, a kind of x-ray without the bones, but with all the procreative cartilage-what-have-you, it’s kind of unncessary, no?
Do they really need to see flabby butts?
Were metal detectors really not cutting it to the point of having to see women’s bras?
This is entirely off-topic, as I tend to do in this space, but I’m just thinking to myself that terrorists aren’t idiots.
Male Whole Body Imaging
Since 9.11 there haven’t been any more external terrorist attacks on US ground, let alone via airplanes. The ones that have been brought to light have been foiled. I just feel that external terrorists are perhaps/probably still upset at the US government and will perhaps/probably find another method of attack.
That tangent aside, why are TSA agents in remote locations checking out everybody’s goods?
I’m not sure.
Thanks to Rage Against the Manchine for the heads up.
