I Heart Fags

This is my poorly written article for the day on two opinions!  

Sometimes, the Targum op/ed letters ARE good! But now I'm conflicted.  Reading the article in the actual Targum, I felt as if Abe were right. It made me think of the end of Merlin., the made for TV Mini Series with the guy from Jurassic Park. (I'm too lazy to IMDB his name) They defeated the villain by ignoring her, because that's how she lost power. If you stop giving people an audience they should certainly crawl back to the hole they came from and spew their own rhetoric amongst themselves. Your mother might be right, if you ignore the bully he will go away.  This kid might be on to something! Plus I liked his quote, brownie points to you sir.

But then scroll below and read  Jaime's input! Firstly, tip of the hat for concocting a well written argument. (As far as the Internet is concerned!) You stated your opinion well and didnt' even call the other person a name.  Or even tell us that you were first! YAY! Wag of the finger however for having a good argument! Ha ha ha! I feel that she's partially correct.  Today you really can't ignore the bully.  You have to go in there and duke it out because let's face it, the centurists never win.  You have to become all crazy extreme like them in order to have your rational normal voice heard...even on such regular issues as actually respecting other people and not being a hate monger. 


Although this was a great unrelated comment: 

we should have a dance party that totally surrounds/ blocks their protest from being viewed from the street so they can't spread their message to anyone. rick roll them, have a pro-love anti-hate bake sale, anything to drown them out. we should start a facebook group or something

Well I found the perfect song:  I Heart Fags by Mc Frontalot :)

Weekend Wrap Up With Wordle

I've given up all pretense of being a programmer. 8 years of college got me nothing but $90,000 in loans to repay. I have to suck it up and accept that I'm not what I'm not. I've a nice, safe job w/ good health insurance and that's good enough for me.

via Lord Omlette

Pretenses such as those terrify me.  I'm scared that I'll one day come to the same conclusion and I don't want to.  It's a door I try hard to run from, but fear is the closest one to me.

This bit from The World According to Garp always reminded me of myself.

She may have had a pretty voice but she couldn't complete anything [. . . ] She could say everything beautifully, but --as Garp remarked to Helen, when he was finally exasperated with Alice--she couldn't get to the end of anything. She couldn't thtop
Unlike Alice, Garp was a real writer--not because he wrote more beautifully than she wrote but because he knew that every artist should know: as Garp put it: 'You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.' Even if these so called endings and beginnings are illusions.

I always see myself as Alice, I can never thtop*. I never work with the idea of completion in my mind. I always fear that it sets me back.
*I not poking fun of people with lisps, but if you've read the book you'd know that Alice speaks with a lisp, so I'm keeping with the story.