1.    Massachusetts and the Gay Marriage Debate.  Is homosexuality so perverse, so debase and so morally reprehensible that the "Christian" Right feels that above all other "morality" issues, that this deserves a blatant and legal justification for their bigotry and discrimination in the form of a Constitutional Amendment to the Massachusetts State Constitution?  I thought Constitutions were meant to establish governmental structure, protect individuals and outline how individuals can protect themselves from their governments and not single out ONE specific group to RABIDLY discriminate against.  Will allowing gay couples to marry, thereby granting them the same rights to beneficiary claims from insurance, coverages for health care, and other rights and benefits reserved only for married couples really cause the decay and destruction of the "traditional" family and erode the sanctity of marriage?  HA HA HA HA HA!!!  OMG!  I KNEW I would never be able to type that and keep a straight face.  Oh, I'm sorry, so the centuries of blatant and perverse adultery in this country and in every other country in the world, through the ages have done absolutely NOTHING to erode the sanctity of marriage?  The last time I checked the Ten Commandments, "Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery" was on there, whereas "Thou Shalt Not Commit Homosexuality" is nowhere NEAR to being a major concern.  If the self-righteous, Holier-Than-Thou, I know what's best for you, religious, Christian, moral and uber - conservative right are so concerned with these issues surrounding marriage based in religious and moral principal, then where is all of the cheating spouse legislation denying the cheaters these same rights?  Oh, wait a second, they would be discriminating against straight people and calling attention to a problem they would rather ignore and blame on someone else!!  We can't do that!  With all of the issues facing families these days, I think they could better focus their energies on ways to help strengthen families, such as, oh, I dunno, providing affordable health insurance, or increasing unemployment benefits, or creating jobs, ANYTHING other than an issue to divert attention away from the mess our country is in right now.   I find their actions morally reprehensible and frankly I am embarrassed that something like this is actually going on in our country right now.  Its hatred and bigotry, pure and simple.  It disgusts me.

2.    Janet's Boob.  Why, WHY are we wasting GOVERNMENTAL resources debating this?  WHY!!!  My big question here though is actually, why is a woman's breast considered obscene?  Why?  I cannot find one person who can answer me this question.  All I get is, "it just is."  Chalk it up to double standards in a male dominated society.  It is perfectly acceptable for a man to go shirtless and bare assed on network TV, talk about erections lasting for 4 hours in the same program, have a horse fart in a woman's face,  have a dog leap up and bite a man in the crotch, which is all PERFECTLY OK, but one split second glimpse of a woman's breast is considered SOOOOOOOOO obscene and pornographic that there are fines flying everywhere, the congress is involved, investigative agencies looking into it, people losing their jobs over it, and people suing out the wazoo over it.  Is this REALLY what we need to be focusing all of our attention and resources on?  The obscenity of a BREAST!  A WOMAN'S BREAST!!  Personally, the offense to me is all of the backlash.  Its no wonder that young girls in this country grow up feeling worthless, when they are being bombarded with all the hoopla surrounding this incident.  I suppose if I were a teenager and heard everyday how obscene my body was based on my gender then I too might lapse into an eating disorder and be ashamed of how I look, have low self esteem and feel like my life is worth nothing.  I have recently read of a woman who was arrested for breastfeeding.  Maybe if everyone just SHUT UP and stopped talking about it then maybe they would realize its not that big of a deal and the freaking world is not going to hell in a hand basket over it, our country is not falling apart at the seams over it, and that gee, maybe women's' bodies AREN'T indecent pieces of filth.

3.    The Passion.  If I hear one more time that this movie promotes anti-Semitism I am going to fucking rip my hair out.  I am so sick of groups, ANY group for that matter, being so self absorbed and so self righteous, taking an innocuous thing and twisting and bastardizing it into some sort of attack against them for promotional purposes.  What are we supposed to do, pretend that nothing took place 2,000 years ago?  And that's it, isn't it?  It was TWO FREAKING THOUSAND years ago!!!!  The people then are not the same people of today!  Are we supposed to cater to this and deny and rewrite history for a few who think a portrayal of ancient ancestors and their customs and laws is going to have adverse effects on those of today, or because the history of 2000 years ago isn't PC?  Is Mel Gibson, as an artist, supposed to rework his piece because it MIGHT not sit right with a few?  Get over it people!  It happened.  Its documented.  It wasn't pretty and it had a seriously profound effect on the course of history.  What makes me even angrier is people who denounce films when they have not even seen them.  Take for instance "The Last Temptation of Christ".  An excellent film that sucks the breath right out of you.  If you denounce this movie because you think its obscene, or heretical, and if you have seen it, you have every right to feel the way you do.  If you have not, you are doing yourself a disservice by lashing out against it.

I have not seen "The Passion" but intend to and will form my own judgment.

That is all and I am stepping off of my soapbox now.

Song virus du jour:  "Somewhere Beyond the Sea" ~ Bobby Darin