Friday, October 24, 2008

Despicable.

Those that feel they must stop California from offering equal protection under the law to its citizens have taken an interesting new approach to fundraising.

This letter
is being sent to some major donors to the NO on Prop 8 campaign. Basically, it says that these donors should donate an equal amount of money to the YES on Prop 8 campaign or else "it is a clear indication that you are in opposition to traditional marriage."

That's actually what it says.

If you oppose Prop 8, you oppose traditional marriage. So I guess when I go and vote NO on Prop 8 next month, I must OPPOSE traditional marriage.

I guess I didn't realize that Prop 8 somehow invalidates marriages between men and women.

Or that allowing gay marriage will somehow lead to man/sheep marriage in the near future, like this idiot seems to think. (On a related note, the idiot that runs the man/sheep site has refused to publish any of my comments at all. No obscenity was included or anything else inappropriate, he just can't have any differing opinions on his blog.) But let me just take this opportunity to say that if he hates gay marriage that much, he must be gay. Ted Haggard much?

Maybe its a good sign that the Yes on Prop 8 people are getting this desperate. They can't honestly believe that someone who had enough conviction to donate $10k to the NO campaign would turn around and undo the good that they did.

But did Yes on Prop 8 realize the potential backlash? They're just giving me a reason to donate and campaign for the other side.

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Screw the Evil Mormons. Vote NO on Proposition 8!!!!!!!

Californians, we have a huge problem, and they are called the Mormons. Goddamn Mormons. Yeah, I said it. Screw you, Mormons, I've been on the path to hell since I rejected your "gospel" back in 1996. I'm well-stewed in heathen at this point. No going back.

Well, the Goddamn Mormons are trying to take away the fundamental rights of Californians to marry. The Goddamn Mormons have put more money into the "Yes on Prop 8" (no on equality) than anyone else, and they are winning because of it.

People, we have to fight the Goddamn Mormons. If we let them have their way, soon they will outlaw coffee. Tea. Shorts and sleeveless shirts (for women). Swearing. Alcohol. Fun. You think I'm kidding?????? Get thee to Utah and find out for yourself.

The point is, its not up to the Goddamn Mormons to decide which Californians can get married and which can't. And it shouldn't be up to us, the voters, either. Who are we to deny adult, human Americans rights? What happened to the land of the free? Fundamental rights? Not being oppressed by another's religion? Oh that's right, that's the one the crazies want us to forget about. If we ain't born again we must be terrorists.

This whole gay marriage thing is interracial marriage for the 2000s. Legally, its the exact same arguments that came up and the same equal protection and fundamental rights issues that the Supreme Court decided in Loving v. Virginia, where it ruled that laws outlawing interracial marriage were illegal. Why? Because THE GOVERNMENT HAS NO BUSINESS TELLING CONSENTING ADULTS WHO(m?) THEY CAN AND CANNOT MARRY!

Let's take care of a few misconceptions about keeping gay marriage in California legal:

Letting the CA supreme court decision stand will not make us all gay.

It will not make heterosexual men marry other men.

It will not make churches that oppose gay marriage conduct homosexual weddings.

It will not remove the tax exempt status from churches that do not conduct homosexual weddings.

It will not make your kids gay.

It will not make your kids learn about gay marriage.

It will not make teachers teach their students that gay marriage is good, or okay, or something they should aspire to.

Now let's look at what keeping gay marriage legal in California will do:

It will allow adult, consenting, same-sex couples to marry.

It will allow homosexual couples to obtain benefits for their spouses.

It will allow homosexual couples to safely bequeath their assets to each other in their wills (which are often contested currently by greedy family members trying to screw the gay partner that doesn't have legal standing).

It will allow homosexual couples the peace and security that heterosexual couples have enjoyed for years.

The Mormon agenda is a scary one. They are strong in California and they have a crapload of money. There is NO GOOD REASON TO VOTE FOR PROP 8 other than to deny other Americans rights.

Support what America REALLY STANDS FOR: EQUALITY AND FREEDOM. Otherwise, we're no better than Al Qaeda, stifling people's rights, putting forth radical religious agenda, and snarling at anyone who gets in our way.

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

This Looks Promising

I'll be the first to admit that I am skeptical of the new Trek movie. Prequels have a history of sucking hard core. I assume there is no need to make allusions to other movie empires with "Star" in the title.

J.J. finally let us see something other than glimpses of the Enterprise. A nice consolation prize for the fact that the movie was pushed back six months? Here are some of the pictures that were finally released.

Dude. This actually looks kinda cool. Uhura's hot. Bones looks like Bones (annoyed). The dude's hair on the left is annoying the hell out of me. Is he supposed to be Chekov? Ug. Chekov was always kind of a dweeb.




Um, this looks like Spock going all Sylar on Kirk's ass. (Take away the uniform and the eyebrows and thats a total Sylar "I'm going to remove part of your brain" look. No?) Maybe some trouble with his human emotions as a youth?



I believe that this is Eric Bana all done up as the bad guy. He does not look like Eric Bana. He looks very bad ass. However, he does not look particularly Romulan. I see the points and the eyebrows, but still, not very Romulan. I am intrigued. I am hoping we are not diving into Nemesis territory here.



All in all, I have hope. You better come through, J.J. Abrams! The entire geekaverse is depending on you!!

Have I geeked out hardcore enough for all of you? I am feeling good! Live long and prosper, bitches!!

Monday, October 13, 2008

Geek Humor

uncle owen charred

Honestly, knowing Lucas' propensity for selling anything and everything possible with "Star Wars" plastered on it to his faithful fanboys and fangirls, I gave serious thought as to whether or not this was the real deal.

Thursday, October 9, 2008

Walter Sobchak is My Hero

Has the whole world gone crazy? Am I the only one around here who gives a shit about the rules? Mark it zero!


Emily's Current Top Ten Favorite Movies In No Particular Order:

1. harold and maude

2. 9 to 5

3. the incredibles

4. ladyhawke

5. the freshman (what can I say, Matthew Broderick made some good ones in the 80s)

6. high fidelity

7. the big lebowski

8. the royal tennenbaums

9. super troopers

10. indiana jones and the last crusade

Another Reason to Love Nathan Fillion

Monday, October 6, 2008

Lamest. Mascot. Ever.

I got an invitation to attend a Whittier College football game over the weekend. As the law school and the college are on separate campuses in separate cities, I had never even known that Whittier had a football team, let alone stepped foot on the campus. And it's a good thing I didn't know any better, because finding out my alma mater's mascot was like a kick in the gonads (if I had them, I think that's what it would be like).

Behold the travesty:


The F'ing POETS???? What the hell? I cannot think of anything weaker and more easily crushed than a poet. The Whittier Poets? It makes me cringe when I say it. Poets? Really?

So I looked into it on Wiki. Turns out the school used to be Quaker and was named after a Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier. When the Quakers founded the school they decided that "Johnny Poet" would be their mascot. (God is that lame. I'm from Pennsylvania, we got plenty of Quaker history and no sissy-ass Poet mascots. In fact, I guarantee in Pennsylvania you and your whole school would be beat down in about two seconds if your football team, the Poets, came to town).

Well I looked up ol' Greenleaf, and he wasn't only a poet! He was an abolitionist (The Whittier Abolitionists!), an editor (The Whittier Editors!), an essayist (The Whittier Essayists!), all of which sound much stronger and better for a football team than the Poets. They could have even gone with the vanilla "Quakers." I know it has religious connotations, but at least it sounds like you're shaking things up!

When I looked at other school mascots, the only one lamer than Whittier was Evergreen State. Their mascot? A geoduck. What's a geoduck, you may ask???? Why, this is a geoduck:





Yeah. The grossest looking clam you ever seen. So gross that its body is running away from its shell. This is not something to be proud of, Whittier. We gotta do better. I personally like Idaho's mascot: the Vandals. Its nice, and it has connections to 80s punk. What could be better?