Listen. Far be it from me to begrudge someone the right to be stupid. I'm very serious. There are a lot of jobs that must be done in this world, that are just so boring that anyone with a well honed intellect couldn't do them. Golf is one of them. Good god. The thing has no defense. It's not a sport. It is often, literally, watching grass grow. And men use it to get away from work, to meet "clients" which is code for "do my lazy ass job while I'm really playing hooky."
You know what they could do to make it a sport? They could take a big tin trash can lid and everytime someone teed up, his opponent got to hold up the big lid to block the ball. Now that would make for some sport. Take some challenge, guys. Any fool can hit something with nothing in their way.
(I'm picturing Tiger out there running around with his big tin lid-much more fun!)
It never occurred to me, but politics is a lot like that. I mean, Palin wrote
crib notes on her hand. And people are defending her for pete's sake. And it's not like the crib notes were President Obama's policy in Afghanistan. It was stuff like "make the crowd feel good, drill everywhere, buy Hummer with book money." She still forgot to "call the other side morans."
People, people. We have got to start holding up the pan. I have no problem begging you, see- down on my knees. Looking up. Please, for all our collective gray matter, for all of our goodness and for all that is dear to us, our children, our friends, our grandchildren and to start with, our amazing selves. Hold up the damn pan!
I'm reading the diary on the front page today and it says that the diarist sometimes goes on republican sites. Apparently there is a big "theme" among republicans that gay people are more likely to be pedophiles.
We can use "the google" against them. Talk about making a few headlines of our own... go on every site you can find, with an account of every single solitary evangelical caught with his pants down. Google has a very long list. Put a year in the mix. You'll get more lists.
Hmmm, should we take the Catholic church hierarchy as a whole, or be more specific. First I think, we start with a few scientific studies that show that gay people are less likely to be pedophiles. The hit them over the head with the tin garbage lid. We can tell about the time the grown up children were allowed to confront the priests who abused them.
It was televised. So on one side were all the priests... a line of them. And on the other side was the line of children (now grown) who had been abused. This was pretty soon after it was first discovered, it was felt that the children had a right to tell how it ruined their lives. I watched, (having never been abused, but made to feel uncomfortable in that way by a man), because it's cathartic. Catholic-cathartic, interesting--think more about that later.
Anyway, I expected a litany of all the trauma, the ruination, the pain, the agony and how their lives were generally affected. Instead they did something that stopped me dead in my tracks.
As the priests sat there in their priestly clothes each child (adult) pointed to one and started to tell all of the things that priest preferred sexually. It was a steady drumbeat of the most sickening words I have hear before or since. One child would say "you prefer 2 children at once, and they have to be under four. Another would say that the priest liked to watch two boys together and then abuse them. It went on and on and on. It was the purest form of shame poured down on them, they were exposed, live, on television. They had to hear their body parts described at times.
Now, my gay nephew, the most beautiful and kindest soul on earth, was taunted and tortured every day, in his little shit rural town, right up until he died at 16, indirectly because he was gay. And these republicans are trying to place this on him. No way.
Everyone who knows me, knows that I believe in doing and saying things in a positive way because you never know where your negative, hate and bile will land. They may end up making someone angry enough to kill, and the words are long gone. So I don't do negative anymore. But negating negative is positive. I'll just bet me and my friend "the google" can find that story from years ago. I'll bet we can write about it pretty well. I'll bet we can find some way to post it in a lot of places.
I've had it with them defining who we are. I've got a long list of wrongs that need to be righted. If you can think of anything that needs "correction" I sure would love to know. I've got to go to work in about an hour, so I'll be here for a while, but I will read every single idea tonight. I would love to know of places that allow you to post. Kos, being a true Democracy unto himself, lets us be heard hear. There is nothing else like this I know, but any ideas...