The other side of the coin

Help yourself to a pro-Bush series of projections. Hey, I never said we weren't totally partisan around here.

And, while I'm at it, time for an amusing anecdote. As reported by Slate's Chris Suellentrop, a headline in the Greensboro [NC] New & Record read "Some gay men hook up at area parks."

I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell you. I am almost as shocked as when I read that homophobic men exhibit significantly higher arousal [as measured, er, physically] watching gay porn than did ones comfy with Freddie Mercury or whatever. It's always the taboo that's the most inflaming.

Along the same line of thinking, I guess if gay marriage were legal, it would stop being so goddamned hot.

Bah

Why does blogger insist on deleting posts? Motherfucker.

Okay, I feel just a little better

Help yourself.

So a lot of shit goes down

It's raining here on Labor Day, and, predictably, I'm at work. I'm also reeling from the announcement that the entire lab here is going, like it or no, to Seattle in about a year. Er, did I say "like it or no"? Maybe the more appropriate phrase is "if you're invited". Eesh.

Moreover, looking at the electoral math makes me queasy. It is disconcerting to see liberals stumble into that path that they're superior and let everyone know it, but at the same time frustrating to realize while they may not be right, the current regime is far, far wronger. I am getting the increasing sense that this country is one run by Creationist teachers, who are at that stage in their life when facts begin to undermine their ideology but they spend all their time stubbornly ignoring them. If you're a high school teacher, this has gentler repurcussions, say, that if you're a vaccine designer. The Bush administration seems to be designing vaccines these days, and the left's attempts to address this tend to be supercilious folk who aren't going to influence much.

Take a look at that electoral map again. Notice that if you don't live in Pennsylvania, Ohio, or Florida, your vote doesn't really matter. Know anyone who lives there? Do you trust them with the rudders of the country? Just askin.