(I'd also say that not giving a rat's fuckhole about someone's color is a pretty decent working definition of getting over it. Doesn't mean that the transition stops there, but it's pretty good as a place to start.)

I'm just saying that I don't see this truly changing any real bigot's beliefs or prejudices. If they are really and truly and deeply racist, at best Obama will get the "what a useful (n-word)" treatment.

Hopefully some of these people *will* see the error of their racist thinking. But I don't see a lot of that happening.

Aw, Keith is too close to being locker-bait himself to shove Nate in one.He may have the big voice now and have learned you have to find the right girl before you can say "Hey, wanna see my baseball cards?" But Mr. Olbermann? Tremendous geek. Occasionally our geekiness overlaps, for one thing.

One of the things I heard most often after giving birth, while still in the hospital, was "what are you going to do for birth control"?

A very effective answer is, "remain a lesbian." It tends to make people shut up.

Is anyone having trouble with bloglines?

I'm just saying that I don't see this truly changing any real bigot's beliefs or prejudices.

As I said, it's not an end, it's a place to start. But fuckos like that definitely don't stop being racist when they get to maintain their world just the way they like it -- sometimes when they're in a situation where they have to deal, they do change. And much more often, their kids do. I'm not pretending that everything in our society is all better, but I do think that day-to-day, practical exposure -- the red wire or the blue wire -- makes people who aren't likely to change their minds do so, at least sometimes.

And while I'd really rather the fuckos woke up nicer tomorrow, I'd still prefer a world where they think evil things inside and don't get to act on them than one where they're free to do evil openly.

Damn. Bloglines has been fucked all day, so I just discovered that today is the 2nd Annual (Unofficial) International Cephalopod Appreciation and Awareness Day, 10/8/2008

I'd have squid for dinner in celebration, but I had squid for dinner yesterday....

On the mental state thing:

McCain just replaced "My fellow citizens" in a speech with "My Fellow Prisoners".

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Now I'm filled with a craving to be aware and appreciative of a nice platter of cephalopod, lightly fried with aioli dipping sauce. I can't tell you how much I'd appreciate that cephalopod.

Ooh, I would appreciate such a cephalopod as well!

What I do not appreciate is being at work today, apparently.

My license plate frame is for Miskatonic University, Home of the Fighting Cephalopods.

Go 'Pods!