bon mots

received this via e-mail today and thought i'd share...

On Wednesday, March 1st, 2006, in Annapolis at a hearing on the proposed Constitutional Amendment to prohibit gay marriage, Jamie Raskin, professor of law at American University, was requested to testify.

At the end of his testimony, Republican Senator Nancy Jacobs said: "Mr. Raskin, my Bible says marriage is only between a man and a woman. What do you have to say about that?"

Raskin replied: "Senator, when you took your oath of office, you placed your hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. You did not place your hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible."

The room erupted into applause.

piggiethanks to lady t...

rocky mountain high

so dig - be it far from me to laugh at other people's ironic misfortunes, but this putz... well...

coming from a family that donates huge amounts to such uppity, assholic instiutions as the Heritage Foundation, Pat Robertson's Regent University and National Empowerment Television, (yet, surprisingly, offers their employees same sex couple benefits) i'm wonderin' if ole petie's gonna have to do a little more apologizin' than usual (apart from his brewing of stupendously craptacular "beer")... but on a positive note, now that he's been involved in a publicly embarrassing legal situation, maybe he'll finally be able to get elected...

goodbye, syd

sadness

david speaks

my favorite artist, david tibet of current 93, in a recent (and might i add, extremely rare) interview:

"A lot of my work is about trying to recapture when I was happiest, in
Malaysia." Tibet's work is undercut by an absurdist humour. "If I say,
'There's the knock at the door; it could be Christ returning', I fully
realise it could also be the postman. I'm aware that people can listen to
what we do, be charitable, and still think I'm insane."

That said, a recent concert hall tour of Europe found him playing to
1,000-strong audiences. "I'm not an evangelist," he says. "Current is about trying to explain myself to myself and to work out my own salvation."

*sigh*... you can read the full interview here...