I’m sitting here with a bug zapper shaped like a tennis racket, waiting. Now that I’ve finally put batteries in the goddamn thing, all the flies seem to have up and disappeared. Cowardly ittle bastards. I’m hoping this zapper thing will actually work – especially since I damn near destroyed everything in the bathroom the other day (if you’re an Elmer Fudd fan – and who isn’t? – you may recall the one where he goes after a mosquito with increasingly deadly force until he’s blown his house to bits with a double-barrel shotgun; it was a lot like that). But now the little assholes refuse to cooperate. Oh well, I’ll try it out on the deer flies later – there’s never a shortage of them lately. And if this thing intimidates them into hiding, all the better.<\/p>\n
No progress on gay marriage here in NY. Supposedly, Republicans are concerned that religious groups will be forced to perform marriages for same sex couples and want “protections.” Sounds like bullshit to me. I mean, churches are free to discriminate all they want. It’s not like Catholics have ever been forced to marry Jews or something. In fact, they routinely make people jump through all kinds of hoops to prove themselves “worthy” of a church marriage. I think it’s more likely they want to put a loophole in that would keep a religious group from providing benefits to same sex couples (like, say, a Catholic hospital refusing to provide health insurance to Joe and Harry Smith or something). <\/p>\n
And of course other Republicans are concerned about protecting caterers, florists, photographers, and venues from having to provide services for a gay marriage. More bullshit. For every caterer that doesn’t want to take somebody’s money, I’m sure there are 10 that will be happy to do it. <\/p>\n
So, we shall see what happens, I guess.<\/p>\n