Obscanity: You’ll know it when you see it

Palin to Resign as Governor of Alaska - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com.

So either she has absolutely no sense of responsibility, or she’s, oh, let’s see, trying to cover up a massive scandal by resigning *before* the ethic violations are exposed…

Rob Thomas: The Big Gay Chip on My Shoulder.

A civil union has to do with death. It’s essentially a document that gives you lower taxes and the right to let your faux spouse collect your insurance when you pass away. A marriage is about life. It’s about a commitment. And this argument is about allowing people to have the right to make that commitment, even if it doesn’t make sense to you. Anything else falls under the category of “separate but equal” and we know how that works out.

Dem Congressional Candidate’s Event Raided By San Diego Sheriffs | TPMDC.

Well clearly somebody must have grabbed an ass somewhere along the line.

OR NOT.

When’s the last time YOU heard of the cops breaking out the pepper spray for a noise complaint - at a fundraiser, no less? Please. Yet another example of raids for the sake of raids.

Fort Worth Police Statement Concerning “Rainbow Lounge” Raid - KDAF.

Gosh. Drunk people. In a bar. Who knew?

I love how “sexual advances” are always presented as an excuse for violence and gay bashing. Can you imagine a woman getting off on murder or battery charges because the guy complimented her ass? Anyway, despite witness accounts denying that such things were said, even if they were said, that wouldn’t warrant the kind of behavior demonstrated by these officers.

Also, let’s play the Police Statement Decoding Game: “Was placed on the ground.” Policey-speak for “was thrown to the ground with such force that he has a cracked skull and is bleeding in the brain.” Something got lost in the translation, I guess.

Been reading more about People v. Jackson (Michael Jackson’s molestation accusations). Interesting stuff. I’ve always assumed that whatever his mental state, he actually did what he was accused of doing. But I never really followed the cases closely, and never knew a lot of the details that suggest that he may simply have been an easy target *because of* his mental state. After reading this I feel even more strongly what I’ve also always believed about Michael Jackson, which is that he really never grew up psychologically.

If you see Jackson as a fully-grown man, the circumstances surely suggest he was a pervert and a pedophile - how many middle aged men who *aren’t* pervs like to share beds with little kids?

But think of him as somebody who never developed into an adult at all, and who never really developed those filters about the lines between adulthood and childhood and between adults and children, and suddenly things really start to fall into place. A lot of people, myself included, believe that psychologically, the guy was either permanently a child or desperate to be one again. (See also: Michael Jackson on the Couch.) The facts that *were* proven at trial and by admission (as opposed to the allegations of which he was acquitted) make a lot more sense in that light, and you could see how he could have behaved in the way he did without there being a sexual component - and how disgruntled ex-employees and a “professional plaintiff” could have had a field day with that behavior, given how it looked to the world.

That’s not to minimize the severity of the accusations against him. Regardless of his intentions, actions, or psychological state, he should not have been so unsupervised with young children, especially other people’s young children - because regardless of his own motivations, kids should not be sharing beds with unrelated adults, and shouldn’t be learning that it’s okay for adults to act like children in certain contexts, e.g. sleepovers. If those lines couldn’t be drawn internally, they should have been imposed. And if he was guilty, he certainly should have been held accountable and incarcerated or institutionalized (depending upon diagnosis), and not had his actions indulged as celebrity eccentricity.

But as far as his moral character goes, especially in light of his acquittals and the circumstances surrounding his accusers (not to mention the fact that Michael Jackson was what the world made him), I can only quote “Wicked” and say, “There are precious few at ease with moral ambiguities, so we act as though they don’t exist.”

Jackson dies, almost takes Internet with him - CNN.com.

Hey, CNN, newsflash: The celebrities DID die in threes again. Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson on Thursday, and ED MCMAHON earlier this week! How could you forget him?!?!?

Got $100? Welcome to your new Detroit home - CNN.com.

Racist e-mail aimed at Obama raises hackles in Tennessee - CNN.com.

So… translation: “Oh, shit. That was supposed to go to the people who would find it funny and not racist. OOPS. I apologize. I made a mistake.” Kind of like when Jerry Falwell pseudo-apologized for blaming teh gayz, et al. for September 11 on “The 700 Club”: “Oh… did you see that appearance? Sorry. That was only supposed to be seen by people who would agree.”

Commentary: Chastity, ‘Good luck, brother’ - CNN.com.

Before the word "transsexual" had been coined in English, an intrepid young person whose family belonged to the British nobility set out to transform herself from female to male. He received a medical school education, obtained hormones — relatively new substances that were poorly understood at the time, and independently began living as a man in the early 1940s. Read more….

Obama on DOMA: He IS Keeping A Promise

Daily Kos: Obama on DOMA: He IS Keeping A Promise.

I don’t know how I feel about this whole mess. But before people start condemning Obama, I’d like to point out that when our AG refused to defend Prop 8, we got Kenneth Star instead. I’m thinking of Aesop’s “The Fox and the Hedgehog” right about now.

Terry Says Obama Makes Attacks Inevitable; Also Serves Beer, Wings | TPMDC.

So what I’m getting from this is… if you disagree with federal policy and you can’t change it through peaceful protest… you should definitely start shooting people, because morality is on your side. Excellent.

Miss California USA Prejean dethroned - CNN.com.

Yeah. And when she commits a crime somewhere later down the line and is convicted, she’ll be all, “Like, they only convicted me because of teh gayz!” Let’s spell this out - when you sign a contract, you have to keep to its terms. This was resolved. She was fine - and then she messed up. She should have gotten fired the first time around, when she breached her contract by lying about her near-topless photos. And if she had gotten fired then, she probably STILL would have blamed it on teh gayz.

Ms. Magazine | Between A Woman And Her Doctor.

I don’t care if doctors don’t expect to have to use these procedures - they need to be trained in them. There is absolutely NO excuse for what this woman went through.

2 People Shot at U.S. Holocaust Museum - washingtonpost.com.

I suppose he thought the museum would close the way Tiller’s clinic closed. When one murderous kook acts, the others come crawling out…

Adam Lambert: I’m ‘proud of my sexuality’ - CNN.com.

Biggest shocker of the year! Gee golly! Who saw that coming? That said… between him and Clay Aiken, if you told me only one of them was gay I’d have had to pick Clay Aiken. *snickers*

Suspect claims ‘victory’ in closing of slain doctor’s clinic - CNN.com.

Great. Watch for the murder of an abortion doctor near you.

I thought this movement was supposed to be “pro-LIFE”??? Nope. Pro-fetus, yes. Once it’s an actual person… meh. Not so much.

Washington Blade | Cheney endorses same-sex marriage .

Can somebody please explain to me how “I think people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish — any kind of arrangement they wish” constitutes support for marriage equality? That sounds an awful lot like the argument for freedom of private contract. Thanks for your… uh… support?

Will Iran’s ‘Marriage Crisis’ Bring Down Ahmadinejad? - TIME.

I guess in the end, young people like to have a say in their future!

Joe. My. God.: Sen. Jeff Sessions Makes Kids Cry.

Histrionics? A boy is in danger of losing his mother, and Sessions is complaining about histrionics? What is the boy supposed to do to express his anguish - wrestle with an alligator? When you support policies like these, you are supporting the destruction of families - not abstract families that don’t exist except in your hand-wringing about the gay agenda, but real families, with real parents, and real children, and real love - and real pain, caused, in part, by YOU.

Gay & Lesbian Issues Examiner: EXCLUSIVE: California lesbian couple allege discrimination at Fresno hospital.

Before anybody starts making arguments based in the government’s failure to provide marriage equality, we need to consider whether the women are actually legal partners. If they’re not, which I suspect they’re not because otherwise the articles would have said as much, then this is no longer about what rights the state gives, and is now about the actions of the hospital - because these women would likely have been treated the same even if they had full marital recognition by the state. Given that the two women were wearing Marriage Equality shirts, odds are the nurse probably assumed they *were* legal partners, and *still* wouldn’t let her in - hence the “no visitor zone” claim instead of the classic “family only” argument. Discrimination, pure and simple.

It doesn’t make the rest of us look great to be throwing a hissy fit about marriage equality in this particular case. Instead, let’s talk about discrimination at the hospital level, where the split-second decisions of individually hateful people can have horrific consequences when people’s lives are at stake.

Reality gets “Stranger” with arranged-wedding show - Yahoo! News.

Alright, all you traditional marriage folks! Step up, step right up! Who’s next in line to sign up for this one? Technically speaking, FOX shouldn’t be criticized for this show - it should be lauded for bringing back good old traditional values in the form of marriages arranged by the family. ‘Cause really, isn’t that far more traditional than all those newfangled marriages based in mutual love and respect?

Commentary: Identity politics in the age of Obama - CNN.com.

Is Obama going to get accused of engaging in racial politics every time he nominates somebody who isn’t white?! Jesus. (p.s. he wasn’t white either.)

Actor David Carradine found dead - CNN.com.

Holy crap.

Random creepy feeling that this was a murder, not a suicide. But what do I know?

Michael Rowe: KRXQ Sacramento Radio Hosts Encourage Violence Against Transgender Children.

There are no words for the way I feel about these talkshow hosts. Well, there are, but I’m certain they aren’t appropriate for a facebook post. Next time somebody tells you (or you tell yourself) they’re voting against LGBT rights to protect children, you just reread this article and remember all the children who have DIED because of attitudes like this.

Same-sex couples fight for immigration rights - CNN.com.

Forget “family values.” Try VALUING FAMILIES.