Today

Oh the joys of watching humans (try to) govern themselves! Like a boil on your back where you can't pop it.

The same week the Supreme Court finds that the constitution actually protects lesbians and gays, the President joins forces with the Congress to say that it doesn't. Who's running this country, some fat white executive that likes hamburgers or nine ninnys where at least six have the sense enough to get out of the way of a tornado. The others? Well, look what happened to Dorothy, all to remember not to leave home. Christ, Hollywood.

It appears that a majority - a large majority - of the justices believe that equal protection under the law applies even to homosexuals (so many of Trudy's friends are, you know). Myself, well that atrocity won't be recounted here. Of course three of the most esteemed justices, including the Chief Justice and more importantly the distinguished Clarence Thomas, held their high ground and said, "No!" to equal protection. In fact, in writing their dissenting opinion, Justice Atonin Scalia went so far as to say that lesbians and gays have lots of money and an inordinate amount of political clout.

Isn't that interesting. Remind me to get a loan from Trudy.

I guess he's never walked with Trudy and I on the piers in New York City on a Sunday afternoon in summer when thousands of inner-city lesbians and gays who have no money and no political clout flock to someplace where they don't have to risk being killed for who they are. Or he's never been with Trudy and I when Joe Palermo took us to visit a Project 10 classroom at Fairfax High School in Los Angeles where kids, half of whom were runaways now in foster homes, were just trying to get through school without being abused for be lesbian or gay. Or he doesn't know Trudy's friend Miles who got to watch the head of his class at the U.S. Naval Academy commit suicide because officials had questioned him about suspicions that he was homosexual. I guess it's all that money and political clout that makes them so evil.

And how about Bill Clinton's being concerned, along with his new best friend Bob Dole and those devoutly pious members of Congress, with the sanctity of marriage. As far as I know, Clinton has some pretty imaginative ideas about marriage himself. Let's start with his. When does that trial start, anyway? I guess molesting office workers or porn stars doesn't violate the sanctity of marriage, but a union between two people of the same sex does. I can never figure out humans. And how about Newt Gingrich? There's the type of marriage I want. Your spouse sick? Ditch 'em! And take all the money, too! That's sanctity for you. Much more like my species. Hell Bill, I'll take Hillary if you don't want her.

Bowel Report
Speaking of being sick, Trudy left the trash out for me to eat, and I've been a little runny since. She's used to it, though. I've got her well trained.