number one, bush supports fucking with the constitution. this shouldn't come as any kind of surprise, obviously, since we know now that george w. bush is a reactionary dinosaur. this isn't what he sold the country on in 2000, with the whole 'uniter not a divider' horseshit, but there's not much we can do about that until november. what enrages me, is that he wants to enshrine, in the holiest document this country knows, the most repugnant kind of discriminatory nonsense that can still be spoken aloud in our evolved, but clearly still-evolving society. let's explain it real simply for the benefit of those who might agree with dubya.
fact: gays and lesbians are people
fact: since the 1860s, and moreso in the 1950s, too, we pretty much all agreed that discrimination is uncool.
fact: saying some people may do something and others may not is discrimination.
conclusion? dubya wants to encourage discrimination. seems pretty fucking simple to me. the reasons not to do this are legion. there is one reason to do this, and one reason alone, and that is 'because $religious_text says so.' and i'll spare you another diatribe on separation of church and state, but suffice it to say, it's proven to be a Good Thing. we've got ten months to prevent them from fucking it up.
number two. then, fucking arnold. arnold thinks that we should let people born in foreign countries become president. not for him, i'm sure, he's asking about it for a friend, right? regardless of the awkwardness of his saying this, is it or isn't it a good idea? well, goodness knows having intermixed royal families and cross-pollinated governments worked great for europe, didn't it? oh, wait, um, never mind. there's any number of reasons that it could be a disaster, and really nothing lost by prohibiting it. schwarzenegger's desire to be reagan threatens to be as pathological as michael dell's desire to be steve jobs.
finally, ralphie. ralph nader desides to run again. hey, well, so be it. don't worry boys and girls, ralph isn't going to hurt anyone besides himself this time. are we really worried that people burnt by bush in 2000 are going to risk voting for nader again? that 3% he got in 2000 is going to be .03% this time. he will have no support whatsoever, because there's just too much at stake, and everybody knows it. so, let him run. i voted for him in 2000, and i may vote for him again (after all, who among us fears edwards/kerry losing massachusetts?). seriously. if it's going to be close enough for nader to tilt it to bush again, there are but a few explanations: a. the country's dumber than we thought, b. bin laden turns up sometime in october, or c. they get a picture of edwards/kerry riding around in a tank.
oh and who the fuck said 24 was allowed to make us wait a month until the next episode???? gah!
Nader is a non-issue. 250,000 Florida democrats voted for Bush in the last election. I don't think they (or myself) will make the same mistake twice.