Why is this even a question still?

I was roaming around the darker recesses of the internet when I stumbled across this infographic.  I thought it might be of some interest to you (click to embiggen).

As you can see it's a flowchart that was compiled from the comments on a Facebook poll.  It details the assorted arguments over same-sex marriage.  This particular argument is one of the things that makes me contemptuous of conservatives in general and republicans in specific.  Not that liberals/democrats are any better.

What it comes down to is, under our social contract (i.e. the U.S. Constitution) no person has the right to force another to live by a moral code not of their choosing.  An ethical code yes, but not a moral one.  That means that if I choose to marry a woman, a man, an eighteen year old or an eighty year old, it's no bloody business of yours.  So long as I violate no municipal, state or federal ordinance, I may do as I wish.  Any attempt to infringe on that, is a violation of the social contract.

Plus it really pisses me off.

The Soundtrack of My Life

Well, I no longer have an iPod, but I can list the top 15 songs I've been listening to pretty easy.  So, taking a cue from Tam and Wing, I offer up the soundtrack of my life, or at least the highlights of the last couple of months.


  1.  Return (Coming Home - Dreamside Remix Part I)
        by Cruxshadows
  2.  Kiss Me Deadly
         by Lita Ford
  3.  Boys Don't Cry
         by Norman Palm (cover of The Cure)
  4.  Holiday of Choice (Dead Kennedys vs. Fatboy Slim mashup)
         by Mad Mix Mustang
  5.  Last Caress
         by The Misfits
  6.  Marilyn, My Bitterness (v2.0)
         by Cruxshadows
  7.  Guns of Brixton
         by The Clash
  8.  Outta Me
          by Bikini Kill
  9.  Rebel Girl
          by Bikini Kill
10.  Heat of the Moment
         by Asia
11. 日々の音色
         by Sour
12.  Trolhammaren
         by Finntroll
13.  The Hunger
         by The Distillers
14.  County U.S.A.
          by The Clare Voyants
15.  Black Dresses
         by The Butchers and The Builders

When i looked over the list I was kinda amazed, not by what was on it, but by the order.  I'm certain I'd been listening to Punk more often than this.

I Wonder if His Name is Church?

You can't make this stuff up folks.




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