Shame on the majority of voters in Maine who freaked out and let themselves be scared into denying equal rights to all their citizens. I am saddened and a little bit outraged that narrow-minded, fearful, hateful people still manage to control the debate on Human Rights. There is nothing noble or even evolved about acting like a selfish third grader and denying gays and lesbians the right to marry just because they are different. What is wrong with people who are themselves miserable and repressed, that they want to deny others the right to happiness, or at the very least equal protection under the law? I'm pretty sure that there is a cornerstone of being American.
I have to believe these voters are stupid. I just have to. There's no other reason you could be so mean and vile toward another human being.
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Oh, and I'm still not doing any better with stupid people. But the saying, "She doesn't suffer fools?
Yeah, well as suffer has come to mean 'feel negatively' rather than 'endure patiently,' I do suffer fools. Every time I am around a fool or a relatively "unfoolish" person engaged in foolish behavior, I suffer greatly.
It's incumbent upon me, of course, to change my response to idiocy so that I can recognize it, remember it as something I never want to participate in or display behaviorally, and then let it go.
Still, I can't seem to control the urge to choke the living crap out of some douche bag who desperately deserves it.
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Speaking of things I can't get over:
The city is repairing sewers and water supplies in the streets in my neighborhood. When they did my street, and the project neared the end, I came home one day to find 1000s and 1000s of gallons of water flowing into the street. I called, aghast at the waste, and was promptly told that this was simply the flushing of the system. It was necessary, I was told, to clean out the now repaired system and insure water quality.
OK, that's reasonable.
But they've been flushing the system at a major intersection in my neighborhood for more than a week now. WTF?
My "water is a scarce resource that needs to be conserved" reflex is kicking in and every day and seeing all that water flow into the gutter makes my brain itch.
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And while I'm on the subject of things that make me itch... I have developed this nasty habit of not putting the toilet paper roll onto the toilet-paper roll holder. It just sits there until it's used up. Now ordinarily I would suggest this behavior required a slap upside the head. But, I've had a hard enough day. So, I think I'll just put it out there that someone needs to hold me accountable.
Thanks.
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Ok. So you know I have to comment when you are dissing my state. Mainers are not stupid. They are very traditional. Most of the residents are over 50, or children. There are not that many people between the age of 25-45. I do know of course that there have to be some in order to actually have kids there. But there are no jobs so those that stay are usually uneducated and working in service industries. And frankly there are few gays and lesbians. Really, residents are usually more concerned with where their next meal or 6 pack is coming from than something that is considered "something that happens in California". There are some people that are progressive but they are few and far between. Also, I would have to think that most Mainers do not even know a gay person so why would they care. Maine is a great state and it is a beautiful place. They are just traditional and a little behind the times. Frankly they have much more pressing things to worry about, mostly brain drain, because of so little industry. I am actually surprised that it got onto a ballot in the first place.
So don't diss my state. They just are different than you. That does not make them wrong...it makes them different. They are entitled to think and vote the way that they feel.
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