This is the Real America, people - teenage pregnancies, coked-out moms, and snowmobile racing.

Heh. So true.

I think I'm going to make that bacon/cheese roll for New Year's brunch. My god! So delicious. Also, evidently the person whose site that is a friend of a friend.

Although it's been a big news topic, I just can't see the big deal with having Rick Warren give the invocation at the inaugural. I strongly disagree with his support of prop 8, but I just don't see selecting him to give the invocation as any sort of endorsement of all of Rev. Warren's agenda. Maybe it is my general lack of religiosity coloring my view of it.

I can't emphasize enough how gays in California feel not only hurt by Prop. 8, but also betrayed. When the State Supreme Court ruled gay marriage was legal, they felt included, accepted, admitted to the community. And now there's a huge amount of anger towards the Mormon church, and (especially in SF) the Catholic Bishop who formed that alliance. So for Obama to select Warren for his inauguration is a huge slap in the face. A big fat "fuck you." He may not see it that way, but that is how it's felt around here.

OMG! OMG! OMG! Cute penguins in Santa suits!

Go here [link] and select picture #2.

Also, check out #6 of a Zamboni accident.

Oooh, Keanu wants to do a live action Cowboy Bebop movie.

He should hire Daisy Jane as his Faye.

I can't emphasize enough how gays in California feel not only hurt by Prop. 8, but also betrayed. When the State Supreme Court ruled gay marriage was legal, they felt included, accepted, admitted to the community. And now there's a huge amount of anger towards the Mormon church, and (especially in SF) the Catholic Bishop who formed that alliance. So for Obama to select Warren for his inauguration is a huge slap in the face. A big fat "fuck you." He may not see it that way, but that is how it's felt around here.

California and pretty much all the queer community, really.

Intellectually and politically, it makes sense. (And actually, I think it makes it more, rather than less, likely that we'll see efforts to get rid of DADT and DOMA in the coming year.)

Emotionally, it's something that makes me unhappy.

Yeah, I don't know what to say about Warren, other than I'm really disappointed.

I somehow have the feeling that the religious right won't really feel any gratitude that Obama made an effort to reach out to them. I hope I'm wrong, but... the only possible reaction I see is that it might embolden them.

I somehow have the feeling that the religious right won't really feel any gratitude that Obama made an effort to reach out to them. I hope I'm wrong, but... the only possible reaction I see is that it might embolden them.

I don't mind that Obama has reached out to Warren and has opened a dialogue. I'm all for getting past the polarization that's defined the country for the last 20 years. Obama's a centrist and he can do a lot of good work.

That said, picking Warren for the inauguration is still a huge Fuck You to the gay community.

What Hec said.

What are people doing this weekend?

Me: laundry, PARTY at javachik's, hopefully lots of baking.