I’m writing this post out of some weird feeling of necessity, but I’m not actually sure what to write about. I’ve been feeling a general sort of eighth-year-of-the-Bush-administration/too-hot-to-play-outside malaise of late.
Brian (Cheap Blue Guitar Brian, not UrbanBohemian Brian) has said what I wanted to say about Jesse Helms’ passing on Friday last – namely, us gay folk don’t do ourselves any good when we dance on the graves of our foes. I think I said it when Falwell passed, and I’ll say it again about Jesse Helms: no, I didn’t like him and I’m pretty sure he would have hated me too, but celebrating his death is just wrong.
I don’t see a terribly large difference qualitatively between the headline in Towleroad “Ding Dong, Jesse Helms is Dead” and Rev. Phelps and his funereal ‘God Hates Fags and Dead American Soldiers’ campaign. Celebrating death because you find the deceased personally distasteful is itself distasteful.
Friday, of course, was also Independence Day, which was celebrated with a cookout with some friends and a desperate hope that next Independence Day we’ll be able to celebrate both the anniversary of our country’s birth and our freedom from the neoconservative death grip on Washington. The President has a 17% approval rating; Congress has a 13% approval rating. For God’s sake, it’s time to start thinking in terms of common sense and not just in terms of Republicrat vs. Democlican. Enough is enough, people!
In Egypt, they founded a whole political movement around the slogan “Kifaya” (“Enough!”) Maybe it’s time we do that here. Who’s with me?
I’ve already got an agenda item: The New York Times Magazine ran a profile of Rush Limbaugh this Sunday, which contains the following hypothetical platform for an “if you were elected president, what would your agenda be” Limbaugh administration:
- Open the continental shelf to drilling. Ditto the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
- Establish a 17 percent flat tax.
- Privatize Social Security.
- Give parents school vouchers to break the monopoly of public education.
- Revoke Jimmy Carter’s passport while he is out of the country.
- Abandon all government policies based on the hoax of man-made global warming.
“* Number 5 was a joke. I think.”
Let’s look at number 6 again. I already knew that Rush Limbaugh thought that global warming was being trumped up by the Democrats as an , but a hoax? Seriously? This is like people who don’t understand that a scientific theory (as in, “The Theory of Evolution”) means that it can’t be reproduced in a lab, but is otherwise pretty much evidential.
Yes, let’s declare global warming a hoax. C’mon, dudes — FUCK THE PLANET!! I’m sure Limbaugh and his Dittoheads would just love to live on a massive spaceliner with personal conveyances like humanity does in Wall-E. (Great movie, by the way, you should see it. Skip Hancock.)
And on that lovely note. Have a happy Monday, everyone! Take the reader poll if you haven’t already.
The lone new holdover from last season that I still watch is Bones, the Fox network drama that’s actually flourishing in its second season. I did not, as Ray constantly accuses me, start watching the show because I think that David Boreanaz (who played Angel on the show of the same name as well as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which you’re not allowed to make fun of if you never watched it) is hot (somewhat attractive, yes, but not enough to make me cross the street). 
