I’m dedicating this post to the Right Reverend Mike Shuckabee. Today, after his ridiculous presidential candidacy is long over, he showed his True Colors. Speaking to an NRA gathering of some kind, he heard some noise offstage, and said it was Barack Obama ducking for cover because someone pointed a gun at him. Shame on you, you who falsely claim to be a Christian minister. You are just another racist jerk, another George Corley Wallace. The sooner you are off the national stage, and the sooner the press stops paying any attention to you, the better off the country and the human race will be. AMF–I hope.

However, Mr. Shuckabee wasn’t the only noteworty neanderthal in the news today, although my thoughts here focus on a general breed of person as opposed to one with a name. That would be the “opposed to gay marriage” type. The gist of the news is that since the California Supreme Court (primarily a Republican court) declared that it is unconstitutional to discriminate against gay people in terms of the right to marry, those “opposed to gay marriage” are gonna ask that the ruling be stayed so they can get a referendum on the ballot to change the California Constitution so that it bans gay marriage. This leaves me shaking my head.

I picture someone, an average “slob like one of us,” a job, a family, bills to pay, kids to educate, retirement to plan for, lawn to maintain, etc. This guy, this gal, is weary, but every day keeps on keepin’ on to do the right thing. To live up to his/her responsibilities. Somehow, this citizen finds the energy to worry about, fret about, the relationships between others he doesn’t know from Adam or Eve. Those relationships affect this citizen, well, as best I can determine, in no way whatsoever. Nothing about gay marriage causes his/her salary to shrink, causes any marriage they happen to be in to be less valuable, causes drought, famine, pestilence, or the housing crisis. Yet, somehow, this slob loses sleep. It is just ridiculous. Go play catch with your kid, or masturbate, or something important will you? Is there no “live and let live” in your pathetic philosophy?

On a lighter note, not to make a pun, in my earlier post today I wondered, idly, what the sun screen manufacturers are going to do if people stop being scared of the sunshine. Well, I was watching the NBC evening news tonight, and I found out. For the first time in as long as I can remember, no less than two companies making sunscreen products bought and paid for advertising time on this show. Usually, almost all the ads are for prescription medications (and their side effects). These grease purveyors are about to lose billions of dollars, and rightfully so. Oh, they’ll still make money, and I’ll still buy, as usual, a modest amount of their stuff. The sun is not our enemy. It never has been. If there is a god, it is the sun. Vitamin D, boys and girls, get it while its hot!

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