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such a change in the weather over the day. this morning it was 43/41, dry and dew point, pretty cool actually, and calm and sunny. easy as pie. but then the ride home, and the clouds all moved in from the north and the west, and really quite a bit warmer (didn't check the temperature), and a fairly stiff wind blowin' me home, from the southwest mostly, and carrying with it the answer to at least one question of the day: how many years must the cannonballs fly, before they're forever banned?
in better news, a michigan circuit court judge ruled that our state's asinine (my word, not hers) constitutional amendment defining marriage does not preclude employers from offering health care benefits to their employees' same-sex partners. judge joyce draganchuk wrote "health care benefits for a spouse are benefits of employment, not benefits of marriage". thank you, your honor. this was, of course, at least one legimate fear of this amendment's passing, that fucktard groups like the american family association (i may have gotten their name wrong, but i believe u spelled "fucktard" correctly) would take its passage as carte blanche to begin chipping away at various hard-won civil rights that the gay and lesbian community has only recently begun to enjoy. although the struggle is not over, and is difficult here in this diverse yet polarized state, it is a small comort at least to have this particular ruling in place.
ann arbor is nice, and weird. i worked the polls last october and got to see the printout at the end of the day, and the marriage amendment failed 10 to 1 in our precinct (it did slightly worse than george bush) and that's just our quiet little northwestern area, by the water treatment plant. but you don't have to travel far to see the cloying red, white and blue ribbons and the stars and bars (to say nothing of the decals of calvin urinating on some truck logo), and the missouri synod lutherans and then the baptists and then all those other narrow-minded types. and you begin to wonder, am i somewhere where i can do some good? is it safety that i need? i know my own home, well enough, but is there somewhere i should be going to?
maybe now at least i should be going to bed.
--->puff o' bugster
in better news, a michigan circuit court judge ruled that our state's asinine (my word, not hers) constitutional amendment defining marriage does not preclude employers from offering health care benefits to their employees' same-sex partners. judge joyce draganchuk wrote "health care benefits for a spouse are benefits of employment, not benefits of marriage". thank you, your honor. this was, of course, at least one legimate fear of this amendment's passing, that fucktard groups like the american family association (i may have gotten their name wrong, but i believe u spelled "fucktard" correctly) would take its passage as carte blanche to begin chipping away at various hard-won civil rights that the gay and lesbian community has only recently begun to enjoy. although the struggle is not over, and is difficult here in this diverse yet polarized state, it is a small comort at least to have this particular ruling in place.
ann arbor is nice, and weird. i worked the polls last october and got to see the printout at the end of the day, and the marriage amendment failed 10 to 1 in our precinct (it did slightly worse than george bush) and that's just our quiet little northwestern area, by the water treatment plant. but you don't have to travel far to see the cloying red, white and blue ribbons and the stars and bars (to say nothing of the decals of calvin urinating on some truck logo), and the missouri synod lutherans and then the baptists and then all those other narrow-minded types. and you begin to wonder, am i somewhere where i can do some good? is it safety that i need? i know my own home, well enough, but is there somewhere i should be going to?
maybe now at least i should be going to bed.
--->puff o' bugster
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