Do you live in Massachusetts?

[grinninfoole]

The pay attention for a minute. Otherwise, you may go out to recess early.

OK, this coming Tuesday, we're holding the election to fill the late Ted Kennedy's Senate seat. I'm not enthused by Martha Coakley, but this is the issues page on Republican candidate Scott Brown's website. He's anti-choice, pro-gun, homophobic, wants to stop health care reform, and thinks even weak sauce like a cap and trade policy are too much to do to deal with climate change. He's a true son of the current, sad, putrified remains of the Republican party. Apparently, he may actually have a shot at winning.

On Tuesday, go vote against him. Leave this sort of bassackwardness to the South.

/flippant commentary

Comments

[morlock.livejournal.com]

while i agree with your sentiment here, i think we should try to keep our yankee hatred of everything below the mason-dixon on low for the time being. we have enough partisanship and backbiting going on in the political discourse that it won't help anything, you know?

i'm just saying. if we have another civil war, we'd get screwed cause they have all the guns.

[grinninfoole.livejournal.com]

You're right, of course. But this dude wants to roll back gay marriage rights! And that's what makes us the coolest state in the union! ...and something that sets us apart from the South.

[morlock.livejournal.com]

it does set us apart from them, except that most of the southern states haven't even approached the topic. thats like saying we're different from the southern states because we don't have piggly wiggly. its kinda specious.

[grinninfoole.livejournal.com]

How is stating something that makes us different (and, in my view, better) than the South specious?

True, I don't even know what Piggly Wiggly is, but that only means that it's more of a distinction, rather than less.

And is our lack of Piggly Wiggly a moral failure?

[morlock.livejournal.com]

piggly wiggly is a supermarket chain based in the south.

what i'm saying is that your argument would make more sense if more of the south actually tried to tackle same sex unions. as far as i know only virgina and texas have anything on the books about it...tho i could be completely off base.

[grinninfoole.livejournal.com]

OK, I can see that: we have, they haven't... it's like apples and oranges. But, we have apples, and they don't. That's a bigger difference.

(Though, as M points out, it's not like MA has actually voted on this in a statewide ballot, and I shouldn't be so sure that it would actually win if it did. Which is true. But, still, our system recognized a basic human right, and acted accordingly. I think our political system functioning properly AND doing the right thing totally = we are cool.)

[morlock.livejournal.com]

i will agree with your assessment. cigars for everyone!

[grinninfoole.livejournal.com]

AWESOME! Time to learn how to smoke!

[morlock.livejournal.com]

AND A LACK OF PLACES TO BUY THINGS IS A MORAL FAILURE.

MINE.

[grinninfoole.livejournal.com]

...my greedy Yankee merchant's heart agrees. YOURS, indeed.

[space-craft.livejournal.com]

Just FYI:

Twenty-nine states have a constitutional ban restricting marriage to one man and one woman. Those states are:

* Alabama
* Alaska
* Arizona
* Arkansas
* California (with the passage of Prop 8)
* Colorado
* Florida
* Georgia
* Kansas
* Kentucky
* Idaho
* Louisiana
* Michigan
* Mississippi
* Missouri
* Montana
* Nebraska
* Nevada
* North Dakota
* Ohio
* Oklahoma
* Oregon
* South Carolina
* South Dakota
* Tennessee
* Texas
* Utah
* Virginia
* Wisconsin

[morlock.livejournal.com]

...oof. my bad :-(

[grinninfoole.livejournal.com]

Well, that certainly covers The South.