We got the license

We got our wedding license yesterday. The emotions that come with all of this continues to be a wonderful surprise. It's all very exciting.
As we drove home, east on McCallister, a Lexus SUV was drifting from the right lane into our left lane. He probably didn't see me along his rear side door. Well I tooted. That's all. Just to let him know I was there. This guy went nuts.
He did cut in front of me and continued to stop and go for a couple of blocks. He kept looking at me and yelling at his side mirror. Kinda funny since I couldn't hear a damn thing. And the final treat was him stopping the car, getting out and grabbing his crotch and shaking his basket with vigor. My honey and I were just splitting a gut.
I know people say the ole 'he could have a gun' but damn, you can't always be afraid. This guy wanted us to be. I wanted him to know he didn't scare me and that he looked like a silly ass, not the big bad man. I aimed my phone to take a photo but, of course, I had turned my (work) phone off. Damn. We did turn when we could. (No need to push your luck)

San Diego Firefighters

Four firefighters are suing the city because they were subjected to Catcalls and sexually suggested comments while driving their trucks in the Gay Pride Parade.
Their lawyer said the issue is they shouldn't have to participate in a parade where firefighters have been harassed in the past.
I have been to decades worth of parades and I have NEVER heard anything but positive responses to the Firefighters. Could it be because, as dykes,we enthusiastically cheer on and smile at our lovely lady fire fighters. Maybe men are a bit more out there with their sexual comments?
A friend once said that the reason gay men and women aren't allowed in the military is because straight men are afraid they would be treated by other men the way they treat women.

Addendum: The Fire Chief is a Lesbian!

The boys on the float is typical of one of the terrible scenes the firefighters were subjected to. This is actually what their lawyer has offered as evidence.



HELLO!

Rachel Maddow

Apparently this is MSN's new star! I don't know if I can take all the success we're facing recently. A dyke staring on MSN, a female redneck VP candidate, marriage for me and my honey, and an African American in the white house (hopefully).
I could live without the redneck.
My Little Jock Sis has claimed Rachel as her new paramour. Though I haven't seen her on TV, after a little web surfing, I don't blame her.
Paramour: "A lover, especially one in an adulterous relationship". Rachel is in a relationship. My LJS is in an unhappy one.

SF - In the morning sun and fog.

From our living room with a helluva zoom..
B of A and of course the Transamerica buildings in the morning sun and fog.
I think I'm going to start calling the Trans the 'Trany' building for now on.
You read it first here!

Ms Steinem

From the Los Angeles Times

Palin: wrong woman, wrong message

By Gloria Steinem

September 4, 2008

Here's the good news: Women have become so politically powerful that even the anti-feminist right wing -- the folks with a headlock on the Republican Party -- are trying to appease the gender gap with a first-ever female vice president. We owe this to women -- and to many men too -- who have picketed, gone on hunger strikes or confronted violence at the polls so women can vote. We owe it to Shirley Chisholm, who first took the "white-male-only" sign off the White House, and to Hillary Rodham Clinton, who hung in there through ridicule and misogyny to win 18 million votes.

But here is even better news: It won't work. This isn't the first time a boss has picked an unqualified woman just because she agrees with him and opposes everything most other women want and need. Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.

Selecting Sarah Palin, who was touted all summer by Rush Limbaugh, is no way to attract most women, including die-hard Clinton supporters. Palin shares nothing but a chromosome with Clinton. Her down-home, divisive and deceptive speech did nothing to cosmeticize a Republican convention that has more than twice as many male delegates as female, a presidential candidate who is owned and operated by the right wing and a platform that opposes pretty much everything Clinton's candidacy stood for -- and that Barack Obama's still does. To vote in protest for McCain/Palin would be like saying, "Somebody stole my shoes, so I'll amputate my legs."

Gloria Steinem is an author, feminist organizer and co-founder of the Women's Media Center. She supported Hillary Clinton and is now supporting Barack Obama.

Sarah Palin

What a man with a vagina looks like.

Next blog...

.. have you notice how many bloggers are Christian types?

While you ponder that question, here's the next:
True Blood anyone? (New on HBO). I really liked it. Though I was never a Buffy fan or ever read the True Blood series, I found it intriguing. Anna Paquin is terrific. I wondered why we don't see her more. She's fabulous. And Alan Ball has always delivered. He's the writer (taking from an existing text) and director.
Well, there is plenty of nudity, violence, an adorable gramma (love Lois Smith), the standard cast of supporting stereotype friends. Tara is a hoot. Check it out.