Dancing with Myself

Missing in Action: Rosie O'Donnell

Why would an out Lesbian give $1,000 to Libby Dole's campaign in North Carolina and nothing to defeat Proposition 8?  Good as You picks up a few comments from Rosie's blog and what is even more startling is Rosie's responses to the comments.  She's pretty lame in her reasoning:  she doesn't live in California.  Well, guess what?  She still flew out here four years ago and got married in the San Francisco City Hall.  Most of the money for Proposition 8 comes from Mormons and the Catholic Church.  Now there's a marriage made in hell. 

Interestingly enough, most Catholics, in California at least, are opposed to Proposition 8. 

I just don't get why people who claim to be Christian feel so threatened by the idea of two people in a loving and committed relationship celebrating marriage.  Is their god that small, or is it just their minds that are small?

Anyway, back to Rosie.   Didn't she used to be funny before she turned so bitter and angry all the time?  I  hope the lesbians on her next cruise turn on her and throw her ass off the ship.

Discrimination Costs as Much as it Hurts

I believe this is the video to which Chris referenced in his comment to my post "No on 8."

Clueless Diva Award

Goes to

Tony Van, a 37-year-old hairstylist from San Francisco, was out on bail Friday afternoon as jurors weighed his fate in San Rafael. He had been charged with possessing a San Anselmo resident's cherry-red, 2008 Porsche Carrera worth $125,000.

In the courthouse parking lot at the Marin County Civic Center, prosecutors said, a parallel drama unfolded when puppies from a 2005 Lexus SUV apparently grew tired of baking in the sun and escaped out a window.

After county employees scooped up the Yorkshire terrier-Maltese hybrids, sheriff's deputies ran the license plate and found that the Lexus had been stolen in San Francisco.

Meantime, Van ran back to the SUV holding its keys and expressing concern for the dogs, prosecutor Aicha Mievis said. Deputies arrested him.

Van also had a laptop computer that had been swiped in a San Francisco auto burglary, Mievis said.

The escaped dogs, and a few newborns still in the SUV, were OK and were taken to a Humane Society shelter. It's unclear whose dogs they are, but they do not belong to the SUV owner, Mievis said.

Later that afternoon, the Marin County jurors - unaware of what they had missed while deliberating - returned with a guilty verdict.

And on Monday, Van was arraigned on new charges: possessing a stolen car and computer, plus animal cruelty.

Van's bail was raised from $10,000 to $250,000. His attorney declined to comment.  -- Demien Bulwah, Chronicle Staff Reporter

This is People's Exhibit A, and below is People's Exhibit B.

This is from SFGate. 

No on 8

I see myself as part of a choir at this point in the campaign to reclaim America. From defeating Proposition 8 to electing Barack Obama, I'm not a soloist, just a member of the choir. My part in the chorus is to sing back-up in a certain key. I'm willing to bet that the majority (but not all, thank you Kathy) of people voting No on 8 will also vote for Obama. Unfortunately, not everyone voting for Obama is voting No on 8. Maybe if we all sing together loudly they'll think about it a little more and do the right thing.

The Cause of Coulrophobia

My neighborhood bar threw a pre-Halloween party for its regular customers.  The results were scary.

Not everyone who was scary was wearing clown make-up. Some just wore make-up and some just were scary. You tell me which of the following is the most scary.

Those last two scared me, too.

Cute Endorsement

See more Ron Howard videos at Funny or Die

Just Fucking Because

This is my friend, Lee Halbrook, at my 60th birthday party summer before last. Bastard went and died on me this past May. I'm pretty good with death, most of the time. Oh but damn, sometimes the hole in your heart left by the death of a friend sneaks up on you and kicks your butt. Tonight Lee came into my mind and I was overwhelmed with nostalgic sentiment. I totally teared up. God I miss him so. 

And then my phone rings.  My Canadian buddy, Christopher, whom I call Sugah and everyone else calls "Honey" called. This is Sugah-Honey from our trip to Palm Springs a couple of years ago. Sugah-Honey is also the one with the Airstream with whom I go rodeoing up in Calgary every couple of years.

He just called.  Good timing, Buddy, good timing.  I'm still a bit teary, but there's a bittersweet joy to it.  Yes, I'll come up to Canada this winter and go skiing. 

I haven't finished mourning Lee's death yet.  I think it takes at least a year to get over the loss of someone close to you.  In my cultural tradition, mourning is given a year.  It's only been four months since Lee died, so  the hole in my heart caused by his death is still huge.

This is Lee in New Orleans a couple of years ago.  Our last great road trip began in New Orleans.  We called it the Post-Katrina Pilgramage Tour.  We met in New Orleans, drove to Miami because Lee had won a weeks accommodation at a fancy resort in South Beach.  After three or four days, we ditched South Beach in favor of Parliament House in Orlando.  Here's a picture of Lee after half a dozen or so bloody marys.

In the ten to fifteen years I knew Lee, he had at least one heart attack, maybe two.  He also had a couple of stgrokes, one in New Orelans about 1998.  It was Labor Day week-end, and there happened to be a full moon.  He waited until Tuesday to go to the hospital, explaining to me that only a crazy or a desperate person would choose to go to Charity Hospital in New Orleans on a full-moon, holiday week-end. 

To celebrate my 50th birthday, we partied in New Orleans at Southern Decadence.

This is how we marched through the Quarter:

That's me holding the alligator's head.  But that's another story saved for another day.

Quote of the Day

"I don't want it getting out of this room, but my opponent is an impressive fellow in many ways. Political opponents can have a little trouble seeing the best in each other. But I've had a few glimpses of this man at his best and I admire his great skill, energy and determination. It's not for nothing, but he's inspired many folks in his own party and beyond. Senator Obama talks about making history and he's made quite a bit of it already. There was a time when the mere invitation of an African-American citizen to dine at the White House was taken as an outrage and an insult. Today is a world away from the cruelty and prideful bigotry of that time - and good riddance. I can't wish my opponent luck, but I do wish him well."

John McCain at the Al Smith Banquet in New York City Thursday evening. 

At which point his handlers surrounded him and quickly escorted him off the stage.

Racism 101

Or Why the California Republican Party is not the majority party

But wait, there's more.  From the Press Enterprise (San Bernardino and Riverside Counties):

The October newsletter by the Chaffey Community Republican Women, Federated says if Obama is elected his image will appear on food stamps -- instead of dollar bills like other presidents. The statement is followed by an illustration of "Obama Bucks" -- a phony $10 bill featuring Obama's face on a donkey's body, labeled "United States Food Stamps."

The GOP newsletter, which was sent to about 200 members and associates of the group by e-mail and regular mail last week, is drawing harsh criticism from members of the political group, elected leaders, party officials and others as racist.

The group's president, Diane Fedele, said she plans to send an apology letter to her members and to apologize at the club's meeting next week. She said she simply wanted to deride a comment Obama made over the summer about how as an African-American he "doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills."

"It was strictly an attempt to point out the outrageousness of his statement. I really don't want to go into it any further," Fedele said in a telephone interview Tuesday. "I absolutely apologize to anyone who was offended. That clearly wasn't my attempt."

Fedele said she got the illustration in a number of chain e-mails and decided to reprint it for her members in the Trumpeter newsletter because she was offended that Obama would draw attention to his own race. She declined to say who sent her the e-mails with the illustration.

She said she doesn't think in racist terms, pointing out she once supported Republican Alan Keyes, an African-American who previously ran for president.

"I didn't see it the way that it's being taken. I never connected," she said. "It was just food to me. It didn't mean anything else."

She said she also wasn't trying to make a statement linking Obama and food stamps, although her introductory text to the illustration connects the two: "Obama talks about all those presidents that got their names on bills. If elected, what bill would he be on????? Food Stamps, what else!"

Ha ha ha ha.  That is so funny, Diane.  You crack me up. 

Kids! Talk to your Parents!