Amusing myself on a Tuesday morning
I can't believe what I'm hearing as I watch Jerry Springer. That is surprising, because I usually think anything can happen on this show and that is why it's so funny.
This woman went on because she caught her lesbian daughter cheating on her current girlfriend with another lesbian. Normal Springer stuff so far. Then she went on a diatribe about how she didn't want her daughter to be a lesbian and Springer says "any relationship, so long as it's a guy, right?" The woman doesn't blink an eye and says "well, or a rich lesbian."
That threw me for a loop. She's all about not wanting her daughter to be gay unless it means she can profit from it by having a wealthy daughter-in-law. I guess this is why I watch that stupid stuff, because it makes me laugh most of the time and often, shake my head.
* * *
There's a lot of discussion going on about California Assembly Bill 1266 which Governor Moonbeam just signed into law. It's all about equality but the fact this law will modify the State Education Code so that transgender students can use the restrooms, locker rooms and play on the sport's team that match their stated gender has a lot of people up in arms.
Most of them need to chill. Especially the ones who are moronic enough to think that high school or middle school boys are going to dress up as girls, say they are transgender and then use that to play Peeping Tom in the girl's locker room or restroom. That's not going to happen. It's quite easy for a school to implement criteria requiring a student to inform the administration that they are transgender before they are allowed to use the facilities that no longer match their stated gender. Do people with any intelligence think boys at that age will formally announce they are transgender just to satisfy the urge to see naked or nearly naked girls?
The issue of how this will impact the children in public schools who will be forced to confront seeing what they consider a boy in the girl's restroom (or vice versa) is a legitimate subject for discussion. Until you use some logic. Do you think that a transgender boy, born a girl, is going to stare at the boys using the urinal? For a transgender girl, she will be using a restroom with stalls, so she won't be able to see a thing.
Now when it comes to locker rooms, that's a legitimate issue to discuss. The crux of the issue is, what about the rights of the non-transgendered, who far outnumber the transgendered? What about their rights not to be objectified or sexualized?
While we live in a democratic republic here in the U.S., and most people subscribe to the notion of "majority rule", we must never lose sight that our Constitution's Bill of Rights exists for all, not just the majority. The tyranny of the majority becomes the oppression of the minority. It must be a special kind of hell for someone so young to try to live as a member of the gender opposite to their birth. The teasing, the ridicule and so on.
But they aren't going to turn the other kids gay. They aren't going to rape, pillage or plunder. They pose no risk. They aren't in that locker room or restroom for sexual gratification. I suspect they just want to be left alone and be accepted as though they aren't sick or twisted.
There will be kinks in implementing this law, but not the kind these fear mongers are trying to spread.
* * *
I'm watching Grey's Anatomy reruns and they are airing the episodes where "Dr. Stevens (Katherine Heigl)" falls in love with a patient named "Denny". He was awaiting a heart transplant. While I don't identify with that, in the episode that's on right now, he's talking about he is tired of being tired.
That I can relate to. While my fatigue level actually varies greatly from day to day (there is no apparently rhyme or reason for this), I don't get up on any morning any longer without feeling at least some fatigue.
Oh, you can will yourself through the day and I do that, but the cost is high. Doing that does mean fatigue will be greater the next day without regard to whatever random factors make it have these swings of level.
* * *
Random Ponderings:
Does it make sense for a bride to have 80 bridesmaids at one wedding? How about 110 (the current record)? The only good reason that comes to my mind is that the bride or groom owns a shop that sells dresses for bridesmaids. And of course that no one attending happens to be allergic to taffeta.
It must suck to be fired by your company's CEO in front of 1,000 co-workers who are listening on a conference call at the time (note that the CEO and the former employee were in the same room).
Someone claiming to be the fan who tossed a banana on the field in SF where the Giants were playing and being trounced by Baltimore says it wasn't a racist gesture and that he's sorry he did it. Aside from that idiot police chief in PA who wasn't sorry about his first viral video in his diatribe in the second viral video, no one says "well, I'm sorry but I would do it again, it was the right thing to do."
Yes, Urban Outfitters is selling a kid's T-shirt that says "School Sux" on it.
Isn't it time for the stalemate over the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Dump to be resolved one way or the other (yes)?
Kudos to the IRS for helping my client out yesterday, and for extending the deadline on applications for innocent spouse relief as they have finally proposed doing.
This Date In History:
29 BC – Octavian holds the first of three consecutive triumphs in Rome to celebrate the victory over the Dalmatian tribes.
523 – John I becomes the new Pope after the death of Pope Hormisdas.
554 – Emperor Justinian I rewards Liberius for his long and distinguished service in the Pragmatic Sanction, granting him extensive estates in Italy.
582 – Maurice becomes Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire.
900 – Count Reginar I of Hainault rises against Zwentibold of Lotharingia and slews him near present-day Susteren.
1099 – Pope Paschal II succeeds Pope Urban II as the 160th pope.
1516 – The Treaty of Noyon between France and Spain is signed. Francis I of France recognizes Charles's claim to Naples, and Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, recognizes Francis's claim to Milan.
1521 – Tenochtitlan (present day Mexico City) falls to conquistador Hernán Cortés.
1532 – Union of Brittany and France: The Duchy of Brittany is absorbed into the Kingdom of France.
1536 – Buddhist monks from Kyoto, Japan's Enryaku-ji temple set fire to 21 Nichiren temples throughout in what will be known as the Tenbun Hokke Disturbance. (Traditional Japanese date: July 27, 1536).
1553 – Michael Servetus is arrested by John Calvin in Geneva, Switzerland as a heretic.
1624 – The French king Louis XIII appoints Cardinal Richelieu as prime minister
1704 – War of the Spanish Succession: Battle of Blenheim – English and Imperial forces are victorious over French and Bavarian troops.
1792 – King Louis XVI of France is formally arrested by the National Tribunal, and declared an enemy of the people.
1806 – Battle of Mišar during the Serbian Revolution begins. The battle will end two days later, with a decisive Serbian victory over the Ottomans.
1814 – The Convention of London, a treaty between the United Kingdom and the United Provinces, is signed in London, England.
1831 – Nat Turner sees a solar eclipse, which he believes is a sign from God. Eight days later he and 70 other slaves kill approximately 55 whites in Southampton County, Virginia.
1868 – A massive earthquake near Arica, Peru, causes an estimated 25,000 casualties, and the subsequent tsunami causes considerable damage as far away as Hawaii and New Zealand.
1898 – Spanish–American War: Spanish and American forces engaged in a mock battle for Manila, after which the Spanish commander surrendered in order to keep the city out of Filipino rebel hands.
1898 – Carl Gustav Witt discovers 433 Eros, the first near-Earth asteroid to be found.
1906 – The all black infantrymen of the U.S. Army's 25th Infantry Regiment are accused of killing a white bartender and wounding a white police officer in Brownsville, Texas, despite exculpatory evidence; all are later dishonorably discharged.
1913 – Otto Witte, an acrobat, is purportedly crowned King of Albania.
1913 – First production in the UK of stainless steel by Harry Brearley.
1918 – Women enlist in the United States Marine Corps for the first time. Opha Mae Johnson is the first woman to enlist.
1918 – Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) established as a public company in Germany.
1920 – Polish–Soviet War: the Battle of Warsaw begins and will last till August 25. The Red Army is defeated.
1937 – The Battle of Shanghai begins.
1942 – Major General Eugene Reybold of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers authorizes the construction of facilities that would house the "Development of Substitute Materials" project, better known as the Manhattan Project.
1954 – Radio Pakistan broadcasts the "Qaumī Tarāna", the national anthem of Pakistan for the first time.
1960 – The Central African Republic declares independence from France.
1961 – East Germany closes the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin to thwart its inhabitants' attempts to escape to the West.
1962 – Representatives from the Russian Orthodox Church and Vatican City meet in Metz, France, and come to an agreement wherein the Russian church would send observers to the Second Vatican Council and in exchange, the Roman Catholic Church would refuse to condemn Communism.
1964 – Peter Allen and Gwynne Evans are hanged for the Murder of John Alan West becoming the last people executed in the United Kingdom.
1968 – Alexandros Panagoulis attempts to assassinate the Greek dictator Colonel Georgios Papadopoulos in Varkiza, Athens.
1969 – The Apollo 11 astronauts are released from a three-week quarantine to enjoy a ticker tape parade in New York, New York. That evening, at a state dinner in Los Angeles, California, they are awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Richard Nixon.
1977 – Members of the British National Front (NF) clash with anti-NF demonstrators in Lewisham, London, resulting in 214 arrests and at least 111 injuries.
1978 – 150 Palestinians in Beirut are killed in a terrorist attack during the second phase of the Lebanese Civil War.
1979 – The roof of the uncompleted Rosemont Horizon in Rosemont, Illinois collapses, killing 5 workers and injuring 16.
2004 – Hurricane Charley, a Category 4 storm, strikes Punta Gorda, Florida and devastates the surrounding area.
2004 – 156 Congolese Tutsi refugees are massacred at the Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi.
Famous Folk Born On This Date:
Annie Oakley
Ben Hogan
Frederick Sanger
Bert Lahr
Neville Brand
Fidel Castro
Pat Harrington, Jr.
Don Ho (every time I read his name, the song "Tiny Bubbles" plays in my brain)
Joycelyn Elders
Bobby Clarke
Dan Fogelberg (you are missed, sir)
Herb Ritts
Paul Greengrass
Randy Shugart (a real American hero. RIP)
Danny Bonaduce
Valerie Plame
Debi Mazar
Quinn Cummings
Midori Ito
Movie quotes today come from 1977's "The Goodbye Girl" because today is the birthday of Quinn Cummings, who was amazing in that film:
Paula McFadden: I thought you said you were decent.
Elliot Garfield: I am decent. I also happen to be naked.
#2
Elliot Garfield: My careereth is over. I am making a horseth asseth of myselfeth. Mark, I'm begging you. I'm BEGGING you. You want this kind of performance? Let me play Lady Anne.
#3
Elliott Garfield: [reading a review of his performance as Richard III] "It never occurred to us that William Shakespeare wrote the 'Wizard of Oz'. However, Elliot Garfield makes a splendid Wicked Witch of the North." Tacky. Tacky. Well, if they're gonna kill me, let 'em kill me with panache.
#4
[after finding out the play has closed]
Elliot Garfield: That's O.K., Now I'm free to take that other job.
Lucy McFadden: What other job?
Elliot Garfield: I'm looking, I'm looking!
This woman went on because she caught her lesbian daughter cheating on her current girlfriend with another lesbian. Normal Springer stuff so far. Then she went on a diatribe about how she didn't want her daughter to be a lesbian and Springer says "any relationship, so long as it's a guy, right?" The woman doesn't blink an eye and says "well, or a rich lesbian."
That threw me for a loop. She's all about not wanting her daughter to be gay unless it means she can profit from it by having a wealthy daughter-in-law. I guess this is why I watch that stupid stuff, because it makes me laugh most of the time and often, shake my head.
* * *
There's a lot of discussion going on about California Assembly Bill 1266 which Governor Moonbeam just signed into law. It's all about equality but the fact this law will modify the State Education Code so that transgender students can use the restrooms, locker rooms and play on the sport's team that match their stated gender has a lot of people up in arms.
Most of them need to chill. Especially the ones who are moronic enough to think that high school or middle school boys are going to dress up as girls, say they are transgender and then use that to play Peeping Tom in the girl's locker room or restroom. That's not going to happen. It's quite easy for a school to implement criteria requiring a student to inform the administration that they are transgender before they are allowed to use the facilities that no longer match their stated gender. Do people with any intelligence think boys at that age will formally announce they are transgender just to satisfy the urge to see naked or nearly naked girls?
The issue of how this will impact the children in public schools who will be forced to confront seeing what they consider a boy in the girl's restroom (or vice versa) is a legitimate subject for discussion. Until you use some logic. Do you think that a transgender boy, born a girl, is going to stare at the boys using the urinal? For a transgender girl, she will be using a restroom with stalls, so she won't be able to see a thing.
Now when it comes to locker rooms, that's a legitimate issue to discuss. The crux of the issue is, what about the rights of the non-transgendered, who far outnumber the transgendered? What about their rights not to be objectified or sexualized?
While we live in a democratic republic here in the U.S., and most people subscribe to the notion of "majority rule", we must never lose sight that our Constitution's Bill of Rights exists for all, not just the majority. The tyranny of the majority becomes the oppression of the minority. It must be a special kind of hell for someone so young to try to live as a member of the gender opposite to their birth. The teasing, the ridicule and so on.
But they aren't going to turn the other kids gay. They aren't going to rape, pillage or plunder. They pose no risk. They aren't in that locker room or restroom for sexual gratification. I suspect they just want to be left alone and be accepted as though they aren't sick or twisted.
There will be kinks in implementing this law, but not the kind these fear mongers are trying to spread.
* * *
I'm watching Grey's Anatomy reruns and they are airing the episodes where "Dr. Stevens (Katherine Heigl)" falls in love with a patient named "Denny". He was awaiting a heart transplant. While I don't identify with that, in the episode that's on right now, he's talking about he is tired of being tired.
That I can relate to. While my fatigue level actually varies greatly from day to day (there is no apparently rhyme or reason for this), I don't get up on any morning any longer without feeling at least some fatigue.
Oh, you can will yourself through the day and I do that, but the cost is high. Doing that does mean fatigue will be greater the next day without regard to whatever random factors make it have these swings of level.
* * *
Random Ponderings:
Does it make sense for a bride to have 80 bridesmaids at one wedding? How about 110 (the current record)? The only good reason that comes to my mind is that the bride or groom owns a shop that sells dresses for bridesmaids. And of course that no one attending happens to be allergic to taffeta.
It must suck to be fired by your company's CEO in front of 1,000 co-workers who are listening on a conference call at the time (note that the CEO and the former employee were in the same room).
Someone claiming to be the fan who tossed a banana on the field in SF where the Giants were playing and being trounced by Baltimore says it wasn't a racist gesture and that he's sorry he did it. Aside from that idiot police chief in PA who wasn't sorry about his first viral video in his diatribe in the second viral video, no one says "well, I'm sorry but I would do it again, it was the right thing to do."
Yes, Urban Outfitters is selling a kid's T-shirt that says "School Sux" on it.
Isn't it time for the stalemate over the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Dump to be resolved one way or the other (yes)?
Kudos to the IRS for helping my client out yesterday, and for extending the deadline on applications for innocent spouse relief as they have finally proposed doing.
This Date In History:
29 BC – Octavian holds the first of three consecutive triumphs in Rome to celebrate the victory over the Dalmatian tribes.
523 – John I becomes the new Pope after the death of Pope Hormisdas.
554 – Emperor Justinian I rewards Liberius for his long and distinguished service in the Pragmatic Sanction, granting him extensive estates in Italy.
582 – Maurice becomes Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire.
900 – Count Reginar I of Hainault rises against Zwentibold of Lotharingia and slews him near present-day Susteren.
1099 – Pope Paschal II succeeds Pope Urban II as the 160th pope.
1516 – The Treaty of Noyon between France and Spain is signed. Francis I of France recognizes Charles's claim to Naples, and Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, recognizes Francis's claim to Milan.
1521 – Tenochtitlan (present day Mexico City) falls to conquistador Hernán Cortés.
1532 – Union of Brittany and France: The Duchy of Brittany is absorbed into the Kingdom of France.
1536 – Buddhist monks from Kyoto, Japan's Enryaku-ji temple set fire to 21 Nichiren temples throughout in what will be known as the Tenbun Hokke Disturbance. (Traditional Japanese date: July 27, 1536).
1553 – Michael Servetus is arrested by John Calvin in Geneva, Switzerland as a heretic.
1624 – The French king Louis XIII appoints Cardinal Richelieu as prime minister
1704 – War of the Spanish Succession: Battle of Blenheim – English and Imperial forces are victorious over French and Bavarian troops.
1792 – King Louis XVI of France is formally arrested by the National Tribunal, and declared an enemy of the people.
1806 – Battle of Mišar during the Serbian Revolution begins. The battle will end two days later, with a decisive Serbian victory over the Ottomans.
1814 – The Convention of London, a treaty between the United Kingdom and the United Provinces, is signed in London, England.
1831 – Nat Turner sees a solar eclipse, which he believes is a sign from God. Eight days later he and 70 other slaves kill approximately 55 whites in Southampton County, Virginia.
1868 – A massive earthquake near Arica, Peru, causes an estimated 25,000 casualties, and the subsequent tsunami causes considerable damage as far away as Hawaii and New Zealand.
1898 – Spanish–American War: Spanish and American forces engaged in a mock battle for Manila, after which the Spanish commander surrendered in order to keep the city out of Filipino rebel hands.
1898 – Carl Gustav Witt discovers 433 Eros, the first near-Earth asteroid to be found.
1906 – The all black infantrymen of the U.S. Army's 25th Infantry Regiment are accused of killing a white bartender and wounding a white police officer in Brownsville, Texas, despite exculpatory evidence; all are later dishonorably discharged.
1913 – Otto Witte, an acrobat, is purportedly crowned King of Albania.
1913 – First production in the UK of stainless steel by Harry Brearley.
1918 – Women enlist in the United States Marine Corps for the first time. Opha Mae Johnson is the first woman to enlist.
1918 – Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) established as a public company in Germany.
1920 – Polish–Soviet War: the Battle of Warsaw begins and will last till August 25. The Red Army is defeated.
1937 – The Battle of Shanghai begins.
1942 – Major General Eugene Reybold of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers authorizes the construction of facilities that would house the "Development of Substitute Materials" project, better known as the Manhattan Project.
1954 – Radio Pakistan broadcasts the "Qaumī Tarāna", the national anthem of Pakistan for the first time.
1960 – The Central African Republic declares independence from France.
1961 – East Germany closes the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin to thwart its inhabitants' attempts to escape to the West.
1962 – Representatives from the Russian Orthodox Church and Vatican City meet in Metz, France, and come to an agreement wherein the Russian church would send observers to the Second Vatican Council and in exchange, the Roman Catholic Church would refuse to condemn Communism.
1964 – Peter Allen and Gwynne Evans are hanged for the Murder of John Alan West becoming the last people executed in the United Kingdom.
1968 – Alexandros Panagoulis attempts to assassinate the Greek dictator Colonel Georgios Papadopoulos in Varkiza, Athens.
1969 – The Apollo 11 astronauts are released from a three-week quarantine to enjoy a ticker tape parade in New York, New York. That evening, at a state dinner in Los Angeles, California, they are awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Richard Nixon.
1977 – Members of the British National Front (NF) clash with anti-NF demonstrators in Lewisham, London, resulting in 214 arrests and at least 111 injuries.
1978 – 150 Palestinians in Beirut are killed in a terrorist attack during the second phase of the Lebanese Civil War.
1979 – The roof of the uncompleted Rosemont Horizon in Rosemont, Illinois collapses, killing 5 workers and injuring 16.
2004 – Hurricane Charley, a Category 4 storm, strikes Punta Gorda, Florida and devastates the surrounding area.
2004 – 156 Congolese Tutsi refugees are massacred at the Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi.
Famous Folk Born On This Date:
Annie Oakley
Ben Hogan
Frederick Sanger
Bert Lahr
Neville Brand
Fidel Castro
Pat Harrington, Jr.
Don Ho (every time I read his name, the song "Tiny Bubbles" plays in my brain)
Joycelyn Elders
Bobby Clarke
Dan Fogelberg (you are missed, sir)
Herb Ritts
Paul Greengrass
Randy Shugart (a real American hero. RIP)
Danny Bonaduce
Valerie Plame
Debi Mazar
Quinn Cummings
Midori Ito
Movie quotes today come from 1977's "The Goodbye Girl" because today is the birthday of Quinn Cummings, who was amazing in that film:
Paula McFadden: I thought you said you were decent.
Elliot Garfield: I am decent. I also happen to be naked.
#2
Elliot Garfield: My careereth is over. I am making a horseth asseth of myselfeth. Mark, I'm begging you. I'm BEGGING you. You want this kind of performance? Let me play Lady Anne.
#3
Elliott Garfield: [reading a review of his performance as Richard III] "It never occurred to us that William Shakespeare wrote the 'Wizard of Oz'. However, Elliot Garfield makes a splendid Wicked Witch of the North." Tacky. Tacky. Well, if they're gonna kill me, let 'em kill me with panache.
#4
[after finding out the play has closed]
Elliot Garfield: That's O.K., Now I'm free to take that other job.
Lucy McFadden: What other job?
Elliot Garfield: I'm looking, I'm looking!
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