Weighing in on the News

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Proposition 22 in California has long been something that has interested me.  The whole issue of same-sex marriage just baffles the eff out of me because as a nation with a fifty-four percent divorce rate, I'm gonna have to say that we aren't allowed to make laws or rules regarding something we can't seem to master.  It really would be like Shaq running a workshop about shooting free throws - let's just say he wouldn't be your top contender for a teaching spot.  At any rate, who are we to be making laws binding what a socially constructed term like marriage means anyway?  I absolutely concur with those who are making statements saying that we're going to look back on this in twenty years and say, "Ohmygod, what were we thinking?  So arbitrary ..."  Classic example of history repeating itself in different forms.  Can anyone say interracial marriage bans?  Suffice it to say I'm a big fan of Cali's high courts, at the moment, for having the sense and courage to overturn the ban on gay marriage.  I think this is such a big step because, for me, this type of ban has always been an apparent act of discrimination and the Constitution is supposed to act as a vehicle for supporting and upholding freedoms.  Further, I cannot for the life of me figure out how in the hell my friend Victor marrying a man affects mid-America.  Get over it.

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I'm in love with the fact that the mom from Missouri who used MySpace to get back at a thirteen-year-old girl for

"having a falling out with her daughter" is being indicted.  I guess I'm just a big fan of consequences-for-your-actions.  See the thing is that I think parents are crazy most of the time anyway, but I sorta get that.  I love really hard and I can only imagine how that love is exponentially greater if the person in question is someone who actually came from you.  Understandable.  But when people start doing crazy shit like bullying kids who are twenty to thirty years their junior via the internet and making up boys that they'll like only to break their hearts, that's just cruel.  I can't believe it took the authorities this long to conjure a charge for this lady, no kidding.  Thirteen-year-olds are so fragile and weird and emotional and, I mean, if I ever have kids I'm bypassing the 0-3 age and the 12-16 age cuz things are just banana sandwiches during this time.  But it is so fucking well-documented that they're nuts and will go do shit like hanging themselves cuz some boy they've never met in person tells them the world would be a better place without them, so this lady deserves something more than being ostracized by her community.

And finally ..

Brit Brit and Mel Gibson are vacationing together .. who knew?