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livingdebI'm listening to the song "Sixty Thousand Naked Hoosiers" by the Righteous Mothers, a band based in Washington State. "Sixty thousand naked Hoosiers in the Hoosier Dome/Doing things to one another they would never do at home./Sixty thousand adults, consenting, of clothing free,/Indiana never saw such Dionysian glee." I wonder if that was based on some actual event.
I'm wearing flannel-lined jeans. It was actually near freezing in the suburbs this morning; fortunately I live in town where it was 45 degrees. I even wore a scarf to work. I do not suffer hundred-degree heat for a month (or two!) to have freezing weather a month later! Fortunately it warmed up in the afternoon.
I am looking at a dirty plate. It's reminding me that I have lovely pumpkin pie in the fridge that I made this weekend. I love to have pumpkin pie and milk for breakfast. I know, it sounds decadent, unhealthy. But it has three of the four food groups in it! There is enough pumpkin to give me more than enough Vitamin A for the whole day. The pie crust is made with whole wheat pastry flour (and oil and milk), so that's a hint of grain, anyway. And there's enough milk in the glass and in the pie to cover me for half the day. And the milk is all fat-free. Yes, I know, still too much sugar. Also, the whipped cream on top is not fat-free. Hush.
I can hear Robin playing Psychonauts, the kind of video game he refers to as a "twitch" game. I'd give you a quote, but I can't hear quite that well.
I'm remembering that I need to research the propositions for Amendments to the Texas Constitution in time to vote. For those of you who don't know, Texas has a ridiculously long constitution created to make sure that no yankees could easily wrestle power away from Texans after the Civil War. All kinds of things require Constitutional Amendments, and Texas governors are some of the weakest in the country.
So an example of the kind of thing I'm talking about is Proposition 9, "the constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to provide for a six-year term for a board member of a regional mobility authority." Because the current law for six-year terms contradicts the current constitutional limit of two years. So anti-toll-road people in central Texas got the law overturned, so this is in response to that. This is the kind of thing where even if I get to find out why it's on the ballot, it's still not obvious to me how I want to vote, so I may abstain on this one.
I'm definitely voting though, if only to vote against Proposition 2, and this is the most sure I've ever felt about voting. Proposition 2 is "The constitutional amendment providing that marriage in this state consists only of the union of one man and one woman and prohibiting this state or a political subdivision of this state from creating or recognizing any legal status identical or similar to marriage." Sickening in so many ways. Opposers find hope in the fact that there are no people running in this election, so voter turnout will be low, so if all the weirdos against this proposition go out and vote, it might not pass. It won't pass in Austin, but Texas is sometimes, shall we say, a might backwards. I mean we have a state holiday, "Juneteenth," celebrating the date that slaves found out they had been freed, which was much later than the date they were freed. Texas was the last state in the union to free its slaves.
I understand the slave owners not wanting to pass on that piece of news. But this whole thing is harder. What happened to people to make them so afraid of gay couples? And what is the actual wording of the Amendment? How will they check for gender? Are the terms "man" and "woman" to be defined in the constitution?
Okay, enough along those lines; I don't have all night. Texans--November 8th. I'm checking out the Austin Chronicle Endorsements, the Daily Texan endorsements and the League of Women Voters Voters Guide (PDF). Let me know of any better resources you know of.
I'm wearing flannel-lined jeans. It was actually near freezing in the suburbs this morning; fortunately I live in town where it was 45 degrees. I even wore a scarf to work. I do not suffer hundred-degree heat for a month (or two!) to have freezing weather a month later! Fortunately it warmed up in the afternoon.
I am looking at a dirty plate. It's reminding me that I have lovely pumpkin pie in the fridge that I made this weekend. I love to have pumpkin pie and milk for breakfast. I know, it sounds decadent, unhealthy. But it has three of the four food groups in it! There is enough pumpkin to give me more than enough Vitamin A for the whole day. The pie crust is made with whole wheat pastry flour (and oil and milk), so that's a hint of grain, anyway. And there's enough milk in the glass and in the pie to cover me for half the day. And the milk is all fat-free. Yes, I know, still too much sugar. Also, the whipped cream on top is not fat-free. Hush.
I can hear Robin playing Psychonauts, the kind of video game he refers to as a "twitch" game. I'd give you a quote, but I can't hear quite that well.
I'm remembering that I need to research the propositions for Amendments to the Texas Constitution in time to vote. For those of you who don't know, Texas has a ridiculously long constitution created to make sure that no yankees could easily wrestle power away from Texans after the Civil War. All kinds of things require Constitutional Amendments, and Texas governors are some of the weakest in the country.
So an example of the kind of thing I'm talking about is Proposition 9, "the constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to provide for a six-year term for a board member of a regional mobility authority." Because the current law for six-year terms contradicts the current constitutional limit of two years. So anti-toll-road people in central Texas got the law overturned, so this is in response to that. This is the kind of thing where even if I get to find out why it's on the ballot, it's still not obvious to me how I want to vote, so I may abstain on this one.
I'm definitely voting though, if only to vote against Proposition 2, and this is the most sure I've ever felt about voting. Proposition 2 is "The constitutional amendment providing that marriage in this state consists only of the union of one man and one woman and prohibiting this state or a political subdivision of this state from creating or recognizing any legal status identical or similar to marriage." Sickening in so many ways. Opposers find hope in the fact that there are no people running in this election, so voter turnout will be low, so if all the weirdos against this proposition go out and vote, it might not pass. It won't pass in Austin, but Texas is sometimes, shall we say, a might backwards. I mean we have a state holiday, "Juneteenth," celebrating the date that slaves found out they had been freed, which was much later than the date they were freed. Texas was the last state in the union to free its slaves.
I understand the slave owners not wanting to pass on that piece of news. But this whole thing is harder. What happened to people to make them so afraid of gay couples? And what is the actual wording of the Amendment? How will they check for gender? Are the terms "man" and "woman" to be defined in the constitution?
Okay, enough along those lines; I don't have all night. Texans--November 8th. I'm checking out the Austin Chronicle Endorsements, the Daily Texan endorsements and the League of Women Voters Voters Guide (PDF). Let me know of any better resources you know of.
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Side effects
on 2005-10-26 08:32 pm (UTC)I'll vote against it, of course, but not without a wistful image of someone taking that to court. ;-)
Re: Side effects
on 2005-10-27 09:50 am (UTC)That's very amusing. And oddly fair.
Cross over the state border, and all your children become illegitimate. But at least they're still family, unlike your spouse. If families can include only blood lines, then you can only become related to your spouse by having kids. (Assuming you're not distant relatives.) Can't make kids with someone of the same gender.
I'm now remembering, based on some weddings I've been to, that some of them are unions between a man, a woman, and God. Uh oh, the amendment is also kicking God out of the picture.
Weird sci-fi ideas are popping into my head.