A Piss List

Five links to give me the blues

by j. brotherlove

It’s Monday. And despite a pretty gorgeous day in Atlanta, I’m still in a pissy mood.

Feel my pain.

• I’m aware there are people who actually hate gays. However, I’m certain a large percentage of people who voted to ban gay marriages did so because they think gay is “icky” or just don’t understand why two people of the same sex would want to be married anyway. Well that gaggle of ignoramuses have caused Michelle and B. to place their non wedding on hold and I’m not happy about it one bit. When do we get to vote on the rights of people who make over $200,000 a year? Drive SUVs? Wear white after Labor Day? Listen to hip hop?
• It demonstrates how we must call to task our religious “leaders” (especially those who don’t practice what they preach). As more blacks suffer damning words from the pulpit (via the omniscient Negrophile), perhaps more resistance shall result?
• Which begs the question: “Can a people that believes more fervently in the Virgin Birth than in evolution still be called an Enlightened nation?” [membership required]. No need to answer - it’s rhetorical.
• And don’t let me get started on the reports of another “stolen” election. Adding fuel to the conspiracy theorist in you, Greg Palast maintains Kerry won and elaborates on the hows and whys.

  *sigh*

• Thankfully, there is recent personal growth that should allow me to move past this election catastrophe without being bitter. At some point, like Katha Pollitt, I will have to accept that “maybe this time the voters chose what they actually want”.
  

Only time will tell.

Here’s the thing about voting that a lot of disappointed people don’t understand: voting is not rubbing a magic lamp and getting your wish granted.

Voting is speaking, telling what you want. You don’t always get what you want.

And that’s why you have to be 18 to vote. So that when you don’t get what you want, you don’t throw a tantrum and refuse to play. You keep speaking, working, organizing, etc.

I am deeply disgusted with the election results. So I am going to donate my time and money to fight for change.

Bush appears to be an idiot. But, really he is a very sneaky, but smart man. That is so scary. He fooled 50+ million Americans into believing he had their best intrest at heart.

Wow.

just when I was having a good day you had to bring me back to reality and remind me that we live in a world full of complete eediots! btw, do u have any idea why ur site refuses to remember my info? grr

yes i was upset with the results but i’ve gotten over it and i do know my vote counted. as aj stated “voting is not rubbing a magic lamp and getting your wish granted.”

Hey hon, it’s been a minute since I was here, and I am so glad to still see you around. :) I totally agree about the results. So incredibly sad for this country and the world. This was the first time I ever voted (yes, horrors, and me at 32 already!) but all this lesson has done is to fortify me to vote EVERY SINGLE time and to do whatever I can to bring about real change. Sometimes the best things come to those who wait. ;) Hope you are having a great week.

There is some real hostility brewing around this election and I think I may know why. We Kerry supporters feel like our votes were wasted because we were forced to use our vote to try to eject a president who should have been impeached at least a year ago!

Anyway, did you see this fabulous wedding that Oprah threw? It was simply beautiful, but I couldn’t help but wonder “Does Oprah (and her white homemaker audience) also believe that people like me deserve that kind of beauty?”

It will be very interesting to see what Cornel West has to say about all this at Riverside Church tonight …

Donald, that wedding was truly “beyond”. You’d have to have absolutely NO romantic sense not to swoon a little bit. But really, what else would you expect from Oprah?

The irony… millions of Americans don’t approve of gays getting married but they don’t have a problem with gays coordinating their weddings and special occasions.

Did you hear how Colin Cowie mic’d the hooves of the carriage horses for Bob Greene’s wedding? It takes a special sissy to do that!