Having a very political day. [ Which means this has atypical levels of political content. ]

[kiya]

Which I normally try to avoid at most costs.

On the other hand, the SJC's clarifying decision on marriages in the Commonwealth came down today, which means that there's a lot of handwaving and shouting about it going on, and I can't resist putting my oar in occasionally. This has not yet been revealed to be Stupid and engaging me in pointless flamewarage, which . . . sort of surprises me.

It occurs to me that I can probably get good voting information out of how various candidates deal with this one. (I commented the other day that the only way I could feel in good conscience able to vote for someone using "defense of marriage" rhetoric was if the alternative was having civilization wiped out by an asteroid, and I'd need to ask the asteroid some pointed questions about its composition and social policies first.) I should check the news for Statements.


Also, with eerie predictability, I went off on my two Stars-and-Stripes-related rants, one about the meaningfulness of the Flag Code and the other about flag burning. Fortunately, this isn't the sort of subject that comes up a lot in conversation, because I get set off on this one with the predictability of kicking the doctor in the shin when she whacks me on the knee with a hammer.


Okay, that's enough politics for probably a couple of months. We now return you to your regularly scheduled wordcount, semi-philosophical nattering, incoherence, and cat stories.

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Your political day

[dalbino83.livejournal.com]

One of my pals suggested that in six months, there will be so many queers moving into Mass in order to marry that we'll skew the vote in our favor when it comes time to vote about changing the constitution. :) Sounds like a great vision to me!