Prop 8 and voting.

If you're one of those people who suffers from political indifference, please think twice this time around. If apathy about politics and government was ever a bad idea, now is the time.


I don't know if we will see another election in our lifetimes wherein we have such radical control over the future condition of our states and country.


The presidential vote is one thing, and it's a matter of preference. Even if it still boils down to a lesser of evils scenario for you in this election, our two choices are not one in the same. Don't sit down with your grandkids 40 years from now and say "well... I couldn't really be bothered to vote in that one..."

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But Prop 8 is another thing. If you live in California, please, in particular, think twice about this one. It's a matter of civil rights, and it's a matter of human rights. It's not a matter of religion, or preference, or "wholesome" values. It's discrimination against individuals based on a condition which is 1) not a choice on their part and 2) not inherently dangerous to others, and that makes it no different from Jim Crow laws.


Please don't support the people who are willing to bend over backward just to deny other groups of people their happiness, as well as recognition and representation under the law.


Whether gay marriage sounds immoral to you, discrimination against it is unethical.

There's always room for more (and more) Jello

It's difficult to sit ten feet from Jello Biafra for four and a half hours without jumping out of your seat like an idiot and toadying him about all the things he already knows he's done for America's kids over the past 30 years and can-I-just-shake-your-hand.

Anyway,

"We interrupt this program with a special bulletin:

America is now under marshall law.

All constitutional rights have been suspended.

Stay in your homes.

Do not attempt to contact love ones, insurance agent or attorney.

Shut up.

Do not attempt to think or depression may occur.

Stay in your homes.

Curfew is at 7 PM sharp after work.

Anyone gaught outside of gates of their surveillance sectors after curfew

will be shot.

Remain calm, do not panic.

Your neighborhood watchofficer will be by to collect urine examples in

the morning.

Anyone gaught intefering with the collection of urine examples will be

shot.

Stay in your homes, remain calm.

The number one enemy of progress is question.

National security is more important than individual will.

All port broadcasts will proceed as normal.

No more than two people may gather anywhere without permission.

Use only the drugs prescribed by your boss or supervisor.

Shut up.

Be happy.

Obey all orders without question.

The comfort you've demanded is now mandatory.

Be happy.

At last everything is done for you."

On the topic of the two-party (if you can call it that) system: The only difference between the two is that Democrats pretend to feel bad about their transgressions.

And on the rapture: what a relief for those left behind (we'll be fine as long as we have THIS). Yeah, floods, droughts and tornadoes (and world order as dictated by the manifested anti-christ) beats the shit outta war, capitalist facism and torture (and a new world order dictated by our primadonna anti-christ).



Jello is turning 50 this year, if I recall, and he is far from the lanky, sneering punk prognosticator who caught everyone's attention - I would never have noticed him walking down the street - but he's just as enthralling as a mellower reverend of the Green church (no mention of anarchy any longer). A little less spewing vitriol, a little more smirking irony, but the manic-preacher voice looks like it'll never be extinguished.

young republicans.

I don't know one. But I've been told they exist.

By the next election, will Bush have either killed them all in Iraq or alienated them from their allegiance?

If Bush opens the door to a more liberal president in the next round, I will consider it the single positive outcome of his bumbling.