Completely Unnecessary

…for not posting.

I mean, it does. I know that more than one of you check this blog regularly for new and (ahem) insightful content.

But I can’t control your poor life choices.

So I’ve been tempted this week to blog about the lovely and soul-inspiring weddings of biddies - because obviously that’s awesome.

I think if you can’t be happy for 80+-year-old women getting married you don’t really understand what life is about. There’s fundamental level at which you don’t understand happiness.

[Ed. note - Um, Firefox 3, vaguely appealing though it is, does not seem to have incorporated spellcheck in a timely manner. This is absolutely disastrous for your editor, who can't spell her way out of a very small shoebox.] [Oh thank crap, it kicked back in; I had spelled disastrous wrong. I'm more of a big picture kind of girl.]

Anyway, I’ve been sick and also working/marking/watching Angel, so it’s really a grab bag of reasons why I’ve lacked the wherewithal to fulfill the blogging duties that - I will remind you - come with little to no financial reward.

I had something to say. I think it was this:

I know the Administration only has a short number of months (yay!) left in office, but this doesn’t mean that they should drive down their game.

It will potentially frighten several of you to learn that my father is a Republican. Not of the truly alarming variety - he just believes in lower taxes, etc, etc. (whereas I believe in stealing from the rich, etc., etc.).

Anyway, he sends me an article last week in which George Will (displaying the youngest picture GenXers have ever seen of George Will) is all about drilling in ANWAR and everywhere offshore because the Chinese are already doing it.

Eh, they’re not.

But, if the story gets repeated enough times, it looks like good enough impetus for Bush to advocate drilling off all our coastlines a few days later. The NYT, however, is not so impressed with that, considering it won’t lower gas prices until 2030.

But hey - talking points trotted out in the press ten days before they become ‘policy’ is just typical. Could these guys try anymore? I mean, where are those bold policy suggestions of yore? Isn’t there a country we should think about invading?

Oh, or is it just that we’ve gotten lazy, considering the oil contracts with one that we’ve already invaded?

Personally, I’m happier thinking about old ladies getting married.

Congrats to them and everyone taking the plunge (especially to Elissa and Keith, who I love with all my heart… even though they’re not gay. It’s not, like, a definite criteria for my support of your union).

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Part of the Universal lot burned today. This makes me very, very sad:

Officials say the iconic courthouse square from “Back to the Future,” has been destroyed, and the famous clocktower that enabled star Michael J. Fox’s character to time travel has been damaged.

What a shabby way to go. It should have been destroyed with 1.21 gigawatts!

Unfortunately there’s no youtube video of the lady shaking the can screaming ‘Save the Clocktower!’ That would have been perfect.

Universal Studios Fire [AP via HuffPost]

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First of all - yay! CA’s Supreme Court upheld the right of same-sex couples to marry. Awesome news, especially in light of previous setbacks in the courts for gay-rights advocates.

Surprising no one, anti-gay activists are upset and moving to put a constitutional amendment on the ballot in November. (For his part, Governor Schwarzenegger said he would not support an amendment to overturn the court’s ruling.)

The court cited an 1948 ruling overturning a ban on interracial marriage, noting that all citzens must be treated as equal under California law. This doesn’t sit well with anti-gay activist and lawyer, Robert Tyler:

“Where is the court going to rationally limit marriage if its not a union between a male and female?” said Mr. Tyler. “There is no evidence to establish that a homosexual lifestyle is an immutable characteristic such as race.”

Um… that’s interesting. So race is genetic and homosexuality a lifestyle/construct. I was under the impression that current thinking was just about completely the opposite. I mean, I know homosexuality is always going to be a ‘lifestyle’ for these guys, but I’m sure even Mr Tyler has bi/tri/etc.-racial friends.

So good luck to Mr Tyler, but even better luck to the thousands of happy couples who will be able to marry just 30 short days from now.

Gay Couples Rejoice at Ruling [NYT]

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