Get it? One of the elect? Get it?? Because he was elected?
Har!
Pffft. Can you believe some people think we Christians aren’t funny? Me neither.
I blame Mark Driscoll, with his … Angry Birds haircut.
So Obama won! I must say that works for me personally, because this country needs another elitist, beady-eyed, bobble-headed ammoral frat-boy for president like it needs another lie-based war paid for with a credit card.
Anyway, has anyone seen the new TV show Ben and Kate? It’s by far my favorite show of the new season.
Chandler Matthew Perry’s new show, Go On, is also good. And I really want to like Mindy Kaling’s new show, but it’s still looking for itself a little, as new shows must. So we’ll see.
Stupidly, I like The Neighbors. The non-alien husband on it is extremely terrific.
I’m glad the election’s over. I’m glad it went the way it did. That said, I’m distinctly unthrilled that Romney did as well as he did. What is that about? That fool did the impossible: he made me miss Newt Gingrich.
The truth is that you, me, and everybody else who’s reasonably sentient knows exactly what that’s about. It’s no mystery why Mitt Romney did as well as he did. And it’s got as much to do with politics as I do with fashion design.
Not, God forbid, that we can talk about what I’m (not) talking about.
In my head, though, I do have a joke. Whenever some purely partisan pundit is criticizing Obama for a reason that has no discernible merit I imagine them panickedly saying, “[Blank] in the White House! There’s a [blank] in the White House!”
Ah humor. Without it where would we be?
Where are we with it, come to that?
Oh, right. We’re at the day after the 2012 presidential elections. And I am today very proud to be an American.
Photo courtesy of The New York Times I’m sure if I would have asked.
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“It all makes sense now: gay marriage legalized on the same day as marijuana make perfect biblical sense. Leviticus 20:13 ‘A man who lays with another man should be stoned’. Our interpretation has just been wrong for all these years.” — Katie Stephens
New revelations all the time.
Hahahahaha!!!PRICELESS!
I love it!!!
OMG!!!! Gen Petreus just resigned……due to marital infidelity! It’s on the news as I type.
So am I missing something on this breaking story? Petraeus resigns as CIA director not for professional misconduct but personal (I mean, who resigns their job after cheating on their spouse?), and SIC chair Feinstein said he won’t need to testify now at the the hearings on Benghazi?
Does that sound right?
Hard to know what’s going on but all the commenters on TV are agreeing that he needed to resign because it wasn’t just any govt dept. It was the CIA which is particularly sensitive to things like blackmail. Seems to me that now that the cat is out of the bag there’s no blackmail threat so he could stay as far as I’m concerned, but maybe there’s something else going on. They are already finding out that his biographer, which whom he had the affair, had improper, possibly illegal access to his email and that could mean security leaks. This is not a Weinergate. This is the CIA.
And keep in mind that there was a CIA unit secretly in Banghazi.
Testify? I guess that’s up to the SIC chair.
Bottom line: There’s a lot happening off the radar and the pundits are having a field day. Hopefully, we’ll get all the dope eventually because it’s almost impossible to hide or cover up these days.
This is not a reflection upon Obama, but it WILL make things harder for him. The timing sucks.
Soul mentor that is a keen observation. Lifestyle is very important for certain careers in the intel community. One generally is required to take some type of polygraph whether limited scope or a full lifestyle poly. Lets just say many avoid jobs that require lifestyle because of some kinky bones in their closet. Hmmmm… Pun intended. ; )
But yes, vulnerability to black mail and/or accepting bribes or compromises because of lifestyle difficulties or ideologies is considered a severe risk at his level. You gotta be squeaky clean for a job like that. I think he did the right thing.
My dad had to take polygraphs weekly, and whether or not you were having an affair was one of the standard questions. (Another was: are you gay?) They basically don’t want anyone to be open to being blackmailed.
Allie–
That is crazy. I couldn’t imagine having to do that if I were your dad. I can’t sit still for the life of me especially if I am being TOLD to do so.
You should feel like you contributed to the success of gay marriage in 3 states, John, you and this blog got a lot of attention this year and there’s little doubt in my mind that you were in some way, some small part of this narrative that shifted whatever needed to be shifted in those states.
DR, you are so right.
John, I feel a bit ashamed that I didn’t think to say THANK YOU! I believe DR has hit the nail on the head.
PS – re: my name above. I forgot to change my “handle” (is that still what you kids call your comment section names?) from an odd-ball post yesterday, sorry ’bout that.
Hi DR. And you’re totally right.
I agree John. Thank you so very much. Oh hell. It’s making me cry. Please note my most recent comments about you and this election on my facebook. http://www.facebook.com/bill.steffenhagen
That bobble-headed comment was about the best thing I’ve read in ages.
Best response ever! Check this out. Basically, this guy writes on his Twitter:
“Gay marriage is legalized now there are going to be fags walkin around suckin eachothers d*cks”
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And this is the response he got: “Not unless one guy’s got the other in an upside-down bear hug, sweetie. Otherwise you have to stop walking to blow each other.
It’s definitely going to be weird watching all the gay people literally fucking in the streets. Just scissoring and buttfucking right there on the sidewalk, giving all that oral sex to each other up against lampposts and stuff.
Because that’s what marriage is all about. I know because I am privileged to have had the option for heterosexual unions my entire life, and that’s one of the coolest parts. The first thing I did when I put the ring on Natalie’s finger was to take her out in the middle of Cherry street and just bury my face in her knickers. It was a little weird because some other people had just gotten married and they were already fucking on top of someone’s car, and another couple from a nearby church were doing some shit with rubber toys I still don’t fully understand, but we tried our best to ignore them and focus on the very public, totally legal sex we were about to have.
The cool thing about America is that when you get married here it supersedes all indecent exposure and lewd conduct laws, and you can basically just walk into a preschool and start sucking on your husband’s dick or ejaculating all over your wife’s hair right in front of the kids, or go down on each other in the toothpaste aisle at Target.
It’s awesome, and I’m extremely happy to share that awesomeness with many fine, gay Americans thanks to the progressive attitudes of people in several key states.
See you on the sidewalks, gays! And you’d better not have any clothes on, you married sons of bitches! Live nude totally public fucking! Wooooooo!”
PRICELESS!!!!
******“Gay marriage is legalized now there are going to be fags walkin around suckin eachothers d*cks”******
You need to do some catchin up. That’s been happening for years at the Folsom St Fair in San Fran. Been to SF 4 times but never the fair. I’ve seen the vids tho. It looks ummmm…………..liberating.
Come again? Really? BTW, that wasn’t my quote. That was some guy on Twitter. Are you saying this is true? But even still, wouldn’t that be simply out of the norm, if so? Think about all the debauchery we find at Spring Break like Daytona and Cancun, or Freak Nick (Atlanta) and Bike Week in South Carolina. A bunch of straight people doing the same shit.
Trina – You are pretty sharp, you are certainly developing a great advocate mindset. Yes, Folsom has public nudity and sex just like those other celebrations you mention. Personally, I don’t go because as hot as a lot of those people are, the whole fetish thing holds no interest for me. But my point was to give you a high five for your snappy comeback. Oh, and unlike some of these other wild festivals you mentioned, the Folsom street festival area is clearly and obviously cordoned off so no one enters the area without knowing what they are getting into.
Kelven–
I couldn’t imagine such an event. Not because I think it’s wrong but becuse I’m naturally conservative. I prefer love and/or familiarity and feelings vs. anonymous encounters or simply people I feel nothing for. So I’d be freaked out, which is why I never went to stuff like that in college, etc… I just realize that will never be me no matter what. But yes, def hot people!
On the contrary, Trina. It is THE norm at that event. I’ve seen a video of a street full of people, both sexes, looking up at one of those SF second story bay windows while a young man, hanging head first out the window gets f…..d from guys inside.
San Francisco, with its sexually active bar and spa scene, was a stunning eye opener for this Wisconsin man. You have to get all the way to Chicago to find anything even close in this midwest region. Even Boystown in Chicago is conservative by comparison.
Those times I was in SF, I held my um, “cards” pretty close and came home safe.
Too funny. On a more serious note, I think I may have told this story here before, but one of the moments which led me to a better understanding of what it’s like to be gay was seeing two young men pop up from the front seat of a parked pickup truck next to me at a convenience store and scramble to rearrange their clothing. They didn’t know I was there because I was kicked back half-asleep waiting for my husband to finish shopping. I sort of smiled to myself, because they were handsome young kids and clearly in love, and I must have moved because one of them caught sight of me. And just looked absolutely terrified. I can only guess what was going through his head… did I know his mom, was I going to call the police, did I go to his church or have a daughter who went to school with him, was I going to have my husband harass them or try to beat him up… he and his friend stared at me for a moment of just blank-faced terror, and I smiled in what I hoped was a friendly way, and then they relaxed. But it really struck me that no one should ever have to be afraid like that.
Ah, I know that situation all too well. My girlfriend and I hold hands in public all the time, but we know when to subtly draw away from each other. You get good at sort of tasting the air in a given situation. Kissing and hugging anywhere outside our house? Not a good idea.
You know I look forward with much anticipation to the day when all forms and varieties of PDA are scorned and reproached equally.
(That right there is all the funny I’ve got left after a long week of oligarchic pandering and thinking the sky might actually fall in my lifetime.)
As soon as I wrote the above comment, something awesome happened today, Jill.
My girlfriend and I were sitting in the park near my house, holding hands and cuddling. We figured it wouldn’t be a big deal. A woman stopped by and said: “I couldn’t help but notice you two. Love is a wonderful thing, isn’t it?” and she smiled. It pretty much made my day, my week, and my life.
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Matt, it’s shifting, isn’t it? Not overnight, not without MASSIVE amounts of effort made and patience exercised, but it’s unfolding!
I am terrible how hard I can be on the human race. I rage and cry and shout expletives (mostly behind the wheel), but I want them–all of us–to shock the hell out of me with their ability to prove me wrong. To shake me from my cynicism. To own this vulnerable heart of mine and stand for its power. Love is THE power– hate, fear, evil is the supreme lack of it. Just gotta hang in with it, allow it space to be.
Awesome– and proud of you for being you. But really, get a room!
Never! :p
Matt–
I was confused until I realized that maybe Matt is a girl too?? Yes?
Yes, legally I am female. I am a female-to-male transsexual, but I have not made any physical changes yet so on the street I look like a very tomboyish girl.
Matt–
Thanks for answering my curiosity. Would it be rude if I asked you some questions about your experience?
No, it would not be rude simply to ask questions. I assume you are a well-mannered person who knows what kinds of questions would be intrusive.
Thanks! And yes, I am ; )
1. As I am trying to understand what it “means” to be trans, as I assume that covers many those of experiences and reasons, in general what has led you to make this decision? I keep hearing a lot about people who are physically one gender but emotionally and psychologically another. I.e. brain mapping, etc… Has that been your experience?
I think it is a wild “phenomenon” and totally valid and believable. It just makes sense. (Biology geek here).
I had a girl describe it to me this way, she goes you’re a very girly girl and you seem to really appreciate being a woman and you love your body. My answer: generally, yes. I do love being a woman and feeling very feminine. So she’s like okay. Imagine waking up tomorrow in a completely male body but still feeling the way you do about being female, in addition you go to the bathroom and you have a penis. How do you Maggie you’d feel? Me: horrified. First, I don’t want a penis. Second, I love being a woman. It would make me feel awkward and uncomfortable and I think I would hate it. In addition, I’d mourn the loss of my femininity that I do love so much. She goes well, it’s a billion times worse for me being in this body that I hate and that I know should be physically different.
Imagining that felt like a nightmare to me. I couldn’t imagine if it were really my reality.
For some reason, it is not possible for me to respond to your comment, Trina, so I have to respond to myself to answer your question.
In general, your friend is correct. I am a “male brain in a female body.” My partner (who is a trans woman “female brain in male body”) experienced exactly the same scenario you just laid out until she transitioned. I put those two phrases above in quotes because it’s more complicated than that.
It is, as you have said, intensely painful. But I hestitate to call it a “decision.” It was more like, here are the things I experience, here is the pain I feel, here is a way out of it (to gender transition). I can’t not do it, it’s not a choice or a decision. Many trans people wait years or decades to transition (we do after all have jobs and families and other concerns), but the vast majority of us not in denial will do it before we die.
We also transition because to have our bodies match our minds is a pleasure so sublime I can’t put it adequately into words. It’s a feeling of profound happiness, contentment, rightness, and relief. My girlfriend says after she began estrogen hormone therapy, colors seemed brighter and more saturated. When someone calls me Matt in real life, I shiver with joy. It’s like that. It’s why we do this. To relieve the pain, and feel that kind of contentment all the time.
This is how the education happens, how the straights begin to understand. I know about transgender, multigender, non-gender, and you just taught me something new. I also know what it’s like to feel outside of, or ‘betrayed by’, my own body, but I’ve never felt outside of my female gender. Matt, you just brought me there so I could understand it. Of course, I see a minute fraction of what you described, but I see you as Matt more clearly than ever. Thank you for that.
Matt–
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! OMG. (whispers) thank. you. I needed that. I admit, there is a lot of fear as a newcomer and being new to thinking about these issues and considering what this means for others. And the fears I have is that (1) I know my old religious intolerances and prejudices will take time to change. I dont want to offend others. But I also dont want that “disgusted” feeling either. In the past it shamed others, but now, it would shame me as well because in my heart, it is shaming that I would feel that way. In my mind, the hardcore religious pounding I’ve received all my life goes into effect. Heart and mind not agreeing.
(2) Sometimes just physical appearances that are obvious that there has been a change make me uncomfortable.
I know that ALL of these things are things that will go away as I work to rearrange deep set beliefs and thoughts. It’s not that I want to feel that way, but it seems autonomic. For example, there was a trans male-to-female who stepped in the elevator at work last week (my workplace is very affirming), and I was thrown off a little bit. It made me sad for that person because they saw my reaction, but it made me mad with myself because it was so instant that I didn’t even have time to think or control the reaction. And yes, I did feel afraid of this person. When I thought about it, I realized there really was nothing to be afraid of, obviously. But WHY was I afraid? I’m working on that and by taking immediate action, I’m attending a Trans talk this week with some friends in a local LGBT support group. Getting involved, for me, is usually the best medicine.
I love how you answered my question by saying you have to answer yourself. In that way, I feel the best explanatino and your heart really came through. It made me wish that I knew you and your girlfriend. Something else became clear, too. And it’s that because you both are male and female, and yet both of your are transitioning, it kinda squashes the idea or thought that you would even be a lesbian or gay couple. Right then and there, I realize why there has been an inclusive yet exclusive defining of relationships of sorts because it seems general that everyone not “traditionally” hetero, is considered gay-lesbian. But it seems in your relationship, I dont know, and I hope this doesn’t offend, but it seems rather hetero. Would that be wrong to say? But maybe that’s too confining as there are other variants and things that would probably not “categorize” the relationship as such.
I’m rambling here and thinking out loud. Thank you for sharing your heart. The body matching the mind being pleasure so sublime just stole my heart. You help me realize that is a privledge I was born with that others desire like air or water. I can’t imagine the pain and agony that not having that causes you.
Much love to you, Matt. My heart opens wide for you. Blessings, T
something that really made it “click” for me, was when a friend who’s intersex pointed out that sex (what bits you have, which can be M, F, both, or neither) and gender (what you identify as: also M/F/both/neither but NOT necessarily matching what bits you were born with) and orientation (who you are attracted to) are 3 separate things!
As to my relationship, Trina, legally I am in a same-sex relationship, and in some practical ways as well. This makes the question of marriage extremely tricky. My partner and I know we are a boy and a girl in love, but we’ve decided to just define what that means for us, not what others think we should be like. We enjoy our membership in the LGBTQ community, and we don’t consider ourselves straight in the least. But thank you for being so kind and so open.
I wish we could know you too. You seem awesome
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(*_*) the imaginations some people have…. And i *do* mean the original comment. Although the second comment just gave him what he left himself open for.
(i’m a recovering prude but my rationale was so i didn’t HAVE to think about all that stuff. I donno how *that* kind of prudes reconcile it…)
Me too!! And just a second ago, Romney conceded Florida … perfect score, Nate Silver!!
But as for new TV, “The New Normal” is toward the of the heap for. How can one not love a show with lines such as:
“I love the gays, I could never get my hair to look like this without them.”
“This place is so shabby chic. Minus all that pesky chic.”
(Bryan, TV writer) “Just one second. I’m breaking up my two lead characters so I can start a Twitter riot . . . Done—millions of teen tears.
While sitting in church staring at crucifix, “Jesus was ripped.”
“Twelve dudes sitting around gossiping and drinking wine- you call that the Last Supper- I call that a Tuesday night.”
While looking at a painting of Mary in a cathedral, “Hi Mary. I’m a virgin too. I’ve also slept in a barn with three Wisemen.”
“I’m gay. I lay with a man Leviticus style.”
And don’t even get me going on Shania’s Emmy-worthy impression of Little Edie.
Mike–
That’s one of my faves. I have it on my Hulu queue. It kinda reminds me also of Arrested Development for some reason, especially the grandmother.
Oh lord, she winds me up with Arrested!
No touching!
I’m a monster!
You don’t want to get that party started…
Trina – that’s funny, because the grandmother reminds of the time I was arrested.
Guest blog time? Cuz we all know that’s a story of praise and glory be.
Your Honor, I second that motion. I agree with Counsel. Let the record reflect that Mr. Moore has offered to provide evidence. Continue.
There are noble arrests. Civil rights. Interference with INS when a man you know to be a native born American citizen is being arrested because “he’s not carrying his green card.”
Then there are the “oh fuck, Officer, I really don’t know how those illegal substances got into my locked suitcase” arrests.
To which are you referring?
How could I have been so foolish to assume there would be *A* story, as if the Real Mike Moore, who dressed down a Catholic priest and bishop in an airport, would only have been arrested once? I can be so silly!
Hi guys, I realized I need to be a responsible citizen for a moment, regarding the above post.
Getting arrested is serious business, even if for the best of causes.
Arrests can affect your ability to get a job, buy a home, maintain good credit, and, among other things, join community organizations (Boy Scouts, certain kinds of Outreach programs, etc.)
Arrests can be used against you should you ever find yourself in court for civil or criminal actions (even if you are the victim of the criminal act.)
Please it’s really super fucking expensive.
Be careful out there, kids.
that should have read PLUS it’s really super fucking expensive
Duly noted and thank you for the reminder. I kid around because I’m angelic and never do anything out of line. ~
You’re badass Mr. Moore, but of the good variety.
I’m more of a Big Bang Theory fan myself– but I’ve been wanting to watch Go On, cause I love Matthew Perry. As for the political thoughts: ye, yes, and yes.
I’d concur with your assessment, but I left my Klingon translator in the glovebox of my Bird of Prey.
Oh dear lord. I’ve got another reason that I love you? As long as you meant the trek reference, cuz I don’t get Raj or Sheldon. Sorry folks. Sick of worn-out stereotypes as sitcom genius.
Of course now I’m wondering… was it stereotyping that all Klingons were dark-skinned, buff, and always angry? Sheesh.
Stereotypes? I wish!
I pretty much married a quieter version of Raj … 1/4 Indian and a Berkeley string theory nerd whose heroes are Darwin, Einstein, Hawking, Arthur C. Clarke, and Frank Herbert (we own every prequel, sequel, and parallel universe edition of Dune … but never, ever ever ever … ever, mention the SciFi channel’s mini-series of Dune unless you’re prepared for a 2-hour lecture on why every DVD should be tracked down and burned, while forcing the series producers watch the bonfire.)
He and his even nerdier Berkeley roommates, using their knowledge of chemistry, created a micro-brewery in Bowles Hall dorm. I’ve hear that, sometimes, 30 years later, freshmen still occasionally catch wafts of bad stale beer.
In “Big Bang Theory” terms, I’m the dumb blonde across hall … I like pretty sparkly things and pretty much had to throw out all of his clothes and furniture when we moved in together 25 years ago.
Maybe I’d like it better if it were a cartoon? I mean, I adore Apu and Smithers.
Yes, you are nerds. But badass ones.
nerds
John, you place nice back there … if I have to slam my Hyperdrive into reverse and pull this shuttlepod over the side of the hover-road, you’ll be in deep-space trouble, Mister.
How dare you not talk about what you almost talked about!
But if Obama does end up being the anti-Christ, boy are we going to have egg on our faces.
I know I’ll feel just silly over it. whoops!
don’t worry sweetie, you know you’ve always wanted a tattoo (you just weren’t planning on it being “666″)
I’m telling people it’s my batting average. So far they are buying it, but I’m on the north side of Chicago and there aren’t a lot of people reading Revelations here.
If they’re buying that’s your b.a., you should try-out for the Sox.
You know me so well… kinda creeps me out. I have often felt like my forehead was just so unadorned.
consider your forehead kissed. Adornment completed.
aw…sweetie!
I literally said the same thing in my head, when it comes to ridiculous criticism of the President.
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