Long before I left California, I stopped shopping at Albertson's becaus Patricia Heaton is their spokesperson and she is also a spokesperson for a pro-life group.

That sucks, Laga, I'm so sorry. I hate shit like that.

And my stomach turns when I think that people really feel that way--that "they are teaching our children." My dad had to be a closeted gay man for all his years of teaching because of this shit, and though I work in a very liberal school, I don't advertise my bisexuality. We're damn good teachers, both of us, and our sexual orientation HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. I (Ironically, I wouldn't hesitate to say I was a lesbian at this particular school, even though it is an all girls school, but somehow bisexuality seems to be viewed as being all about sex.)

Sorry. Buttons.

And Hil got it (sorry ... I wandered off for a bit). Brother school, Haverford.

I vented to a coworker who pointed out, "you have to wish those people well. Wish them well... away from you."

I HAVE BEER!!!

So much better than a manifesto.

So much better than a manifesto.

VERY much better. If the Unabomber had just had a beer instead of a manifesto, he'd have been a much happier guy.

We have a woman in my office who nearly had hysterics at the idea of same-sex marriage. She used the "argument" that it would make man-woman marriage less valid. uh ... how? Got very vehement about it.

that sounds like an Olbermann joke.

If the Unabomber had beer ... he might not have been able to write a manifesto or build a bomb. Yay beer!

I do not have beer, but I do have chicken tikka masala.