DYFL?

I think McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin for VP is ridiculous. It’s cynical, it’s poorly thought through, and she is patently not prepared for the duties of the Presidency. A few months ago she was on TV asking what the Vice President does all day. Not to mention the fact that she makes most right-wingers look like Dennis Kucinich. What Clarence Thomas is to mainstream black America, she is to mainstream women. This is a farce, and probably deserves to be treated as such.

However. I do please implore my fellow lefties: Can we watch our fucking mouths when we talk about her, please? I just saw a Daily Show sketch in which they made fun of her shrill voice, compared her to a sexy librarian from a Skinemax flick, and implied that she was John McCain’s trophy wife. All of that shit is DEEPLY SEXIST and NOT COOL AT ALL. I won’t even get fucking STARTED on the Failblog picture of her and her newborn son. That tone is GROSS and has no place in this debate. Knock it the fuck off before it even starts, people, or you really WILL send whatever bitter Hillary voters still exist (I think most of them are a myth, but some indubitably exist) straight into the scummy arms of a smirking GOP who were just waiting for us to pull this shit. Remember: These are EXACTLY the complaints Hillary’s voters had about the party and the media during the primary. I didn’t see it then but I am sure as hell seeing it now.

I don’t like how the user icons look all alone on the background. And the rounded corners are poorly rendered.

That’s all I got.

I went to the gym last night, which, you know, good for me, whoo-hoo, it’s been far too long since I went, etc. etc. But holy shit my left shoulder and lats are so sore and tight today that raising my hands above my head makes me want to scream. Clearly I don’t stretch enough. Also: WAAAAAH, WAAAAAH, WAAAAAH.

On a completely unrelated note: the fucking IKEA catalogue should not be a reminder of how poor you are and how you can’t have things you want, right? It’s fucking IKEA.

Though I’m not sure what to do with it yet, really. The whole “Twitter for music” high-concept sounds catchy until you actually try to figure out how to use such a thing

http://blip.fm/dyfl

barthel:

frangry:

FUCK YOU. I’m sorry you have cancer and your kid died, etc. But to be honest, everyone has gone through shit like that in their lives. But not everyone sits there and lies and pretends that they are someone they are not. That they are married to someone who doesn’t exist. Fuck you for sitting by a man who you knew was cheating on you, in a time in your life when what you needed was support. Fuck you for supporting someone who is a liar and a fake. Fuck you for helping create a persona that never has existed.

I hope you beat your cancer for your kids. But at the same time, you’re just as bad as your husband.

xo,
Frangry

I think we can all agree that this is incredibly stupid. But it takes things to such an obvious extreme that it provides a nice jumping-off point for a request I’d like to make—one that I suspect will fall on deaf ears, but that’s never stopped me before.

How about this: here and now, we all make a pledge.  We are going to make a pledge that we are no longer going to make judgments about the personal lives of people we do not know.  Not just politicians, but celebrity parents, rich athletes, etc., etc., etc.  If we don’t know them personally, how about we just say, when we find out something bad they did, that maybe they had their own reasons.  Who knows?  Maybe they were having a bad day, maybe they caught a bad break.  Or shit, maybe they didn’t.  But why should we care?  What possible reason could there be for someone to denounce the dying wife of a retired senator and failed presidential candiate?  Oh sure, talk about what people are doing, discuss the wisdom of their actions, etc., etc.  That’s all gossip, and fine and dandy.  But doesn’t it seem a little…delusional to get worked up about it?  There’s so much denouncing in America today, so much self-righteousness, outrage, outrage about the lack of outrage, so much offense taken.  And it makes the marketplace of ideas an unpleasant place to be.  Lord knows there are things in America right now worth getting worked up about.  But the only people whose sex lives should make you, uh, frangry—those are the ones you yourself are personally involved in.  Everything else is just a funny story about fucking, and everyone can enjoy those.

QUOTED FOR FUCKING TRUTH. Especially those last three sentences. Don’t get me wrong, it was a sleazy thing for John Edwards to do, but it’s his problem. And I know it’s going even farther out on a limb to say this, and it’s coming from a gay man who naturally has a unique perspective on monogamy, but the sooner our national culture wakes up to the truly stupefying number of married people who cheat, and starts thinking about it in a non-delusional way, this world will become a much better place.