February 27, 2004

notes

Note to the local gas stations who have raised prices 50 cents/gallon in the last
few weeks:
Summer They said prices would be up to $2 by
"summer". No matter how warm it is here, that does not equate to "by the
end of February".

Note to the media who reported gas prices would be
up to $2 by summer:
OK, this one's really not your fault. But could you be
a bit clearer next time?

Note to the Catholic Church:
When 4% of
your people are taking advantage of helpless children, in direct opposition to
your reason for being, what you have is not a few bad apples but a systemic
problem.

Note to same-sex couples marrying in California,
Massachusetts, New Mexico, New York:
I've always regretted being born too late
to see the lunch counter sit-ins, Montogomery bus boycotts, and Freedom Ride.
Thanks for providing the gutsiest examples of civil disobedience I've seen in my
lifetime. Thanks even more to all the freedom fighters in those earlier events.
It's because of you that there are no dogs or firehoses being brought out this
time, and this member of a later generation has not forgotten what you
faced.

Note to the guy running this weekend's regatta:
I'm really
not looking forward to spending my whole precious weekend at the regatta just
because Rudder's in one lousy race. If you didn't insist on 2K races for
categories that just don't normally do that distance you would have more distinct
races and wouldn't force people to do run-offs Sunday against the very same people
they race Saturday. Incidentally, the reason I'm neither racing nor volunteering
this time is that I don't think the way you've set it up makes sense at all so I'm
trying to save myself another frustrating experience.

Note to my
boat:
It's not you, it's me.

Note to the guys redoing our
pool:
You rock.

Note to people who still like GWB:
Last
administration, I felt a lot better once I realized that being liberal on many
issues didn't mean I had to like Clinton. Really, just because you like smaller
government and the Republican party used to be all about that, doesn't mean you
have to like Shrub. Come over to the dark side....

Note to people who
preach hate in the name of a religion that's supposed to be about love:
If
I'm smart enough to see how illogical you are, then obviously God is. Also,
you make my friend Maria
sad because you make her faith look bad. You need to try using the brain and heart
God gave you. It might help if you actually read that Bible, too. With your eyes
open this time.

Note to Judaism:
Thank you for giving me a
tradition in which you're supposed to use your mind to find out about the
world you're in, and to appreciate the wonders of Nature and your own
body.

Note to Jews who ignore that tradition:
What are you,
Baptists in tefillin?

Note to the rain this morning:
More,
please.

Note to usual readers:
Sorry, groggy today!

Posted by dichroic at February 27, 2004 04:04 PM
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