No stories of the surgery just yet. Still too close and I feel all Frankensteiny right now. So, warm wishes to everyone this Thanksgiving and blogging to resume soon.

*bimbles off*

Do you know where your sleep is?

*bimbles off*

Well, we’re finally back up after having to reload the operating system. Argh.

I thought I could fix my computer problem with a system restore. Silly me. Calling my dear friend and computer guru KN. Spent an hour chasing problems.

I had a bug and it was damned smart.

Argh again.

Now I face that daunting task of downloading all my applications and reloading my games and generally having to spend hours getting my computer back to where I want it.

I so love technology.

*bangs head on desk, then bimbles off*

I would be much more indignant about a bunch of old, racist, privileged white men pistol-whipping the first Latina female nominee to our country’s high court if it weren’t for JS’s back surgery tomorrow.

Nervous? Who’s nervous? I’m not nervous?

*bimbles off in a vibrating sort-of manner*

To all those yammering wingnuts out there who think we liberals “hate” Sarah Palin because she’s pretty, she’s blue collar or because her daughter didn’t abort her child:

We do not hate Sarah Palin for those reasons. However, we do hate stupidity and, when faced with the staggering amount of sheer ignorance that comes out of this woman’s mouth, our brains catch on fire. When faced with the fact that the Republicans actually put this woman on their ticket as a potential vice president, we spontaneously combust.

Because there’s no amount of folksy, big-haired, winking “you betchas” that can make up for this woman’s apparently infinite lack of knowledge of how the White House works. Maybe she thought someone would give her a Vice President’s Guide to Branches of Federal Government once she got there. Or something. Don’tchaknow.

I mean, seriously. Who the fuck thinks there is a “Department of Law” at the White House?

Oh, wait.

*bimbles off*

I’ve avoided news site all day, as the celebrity-laden sob fest for Michael Jackson caused my stomach to roll anytime I heard someone mention it.

I thought, this late in the day, it might be over and I was safe. Stupid me. I stumbled across this… this poor child being given a microphone and encouraged to pour out her 11-year-old grief on stage for the whole fucking world to see as those freaks known as her family crowd in for maximum camera exposure.

These self-centered, abusive, mentally-unstable, attention whores should be charged with child exploitation.

Pardon me while I vomit.

*bimbles off*

*bimbles off*

Sometimes, I weep for my state. I really do.

The Rainbow Lounge in Fort Worth, an openly gay club, was raided last night. According to eye-witness reports, one person suffered a fractured skull during the ensuing arrests, which Fort Worth’s finest said was the result of “public intoxication” and patrons making “sexually explicit gestures” at the officers. (The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission used the “public intoxication” rule to arrest people in Irving a few years ago, stating it was preventing drunken driving… although no one they arrested were actually in their cars. They were sitting in a bar.) People at the club reported no one was acting disorderly and police simply started grabbing people at random. There were protests today at the Tarrant County Courthouse and a Facebook page has been created to report the incident.

40 years to the day after Stonewall.

*sighs*

Living here, I trust the patrons’ reports. Although Fort Worth likes to think of itself as being looser than its tight, plastic twin Dallas, it’s not that far behind. It’s Cowtown and that means you’re either a real man or a queer. You see where this leads. This is a red state, by god, and anyone who doesn’t follow the rules shouldn’t let the door hit them on the ass on the way out. Our governor said so.

I’ve lived in Texas all my life. I don’t think I could exist anywhere else, as I’m plenty full of the ticks and twitches that comes with planting your feet and heart here. But, sometimes the gun-toting, god-fearing, redneck mentality is just too much. Truly. The damned conservative, two-faced bigotry that parades itself off as “family values” and good morality makes me want to choke.

We blues are here. We hold to our belief that everyone is entitled to live without harassment, regardless of what you do in the bedroom or the doctor’s office or in defiance of faith. Sadly, a lot of people here do not.

I am sad tonight.

*bimbles off*

“Going to Argentina” – colorful Republican phrase for “having sex with someone without my spouse’s knowledge.”  Also see “hiking the Appalachian Trail.”

Just remember, kittens, it’s those awful gays who are destroying the sanctity of marriage.

*bimbles off*