SSS: They're Trying...

I gotta admit: I fucking love the selective services, but the shit they're trying to do with their website is nothing short of absurd. I mean, come on, the smiling asian dude juxtaposed with the bald eagle on an American flag doesn't make the concept of a draft any less unpleasant. They even use the excited looking highlighted "NEW!" web graphic next to updated exemption laws. THAT IS SO FUCKING INAPPROPRIATE! They are trying to make light of something that absolutely cannot be made light. Of course the selective services system is necessary, hell, so are colonoscopies, but the difference is no one pretends to enjoy the latter. SSS needs to just embrace their position as the grim reaper of the American government and quit trying to front like they're just another agency.

Hyphy Exposed

White People

KTVU will be airing a special on the Hyphy Movement on Wednesday Night. No, I'm not joking. 10 pm (possibly after). Watch.

A Collective Groan

California Prop 87

A collective goan echos across the bay area this evening. The anti-prop 87 ad just aired. This is pretty frustrating. The ad shows a concerned-looking white woman filling the tank of her car (SUV). She tells us that 87 raises the tax on oil drilling. She raises her eyebrows, then suggests that such a hike would kick your wallet straight in the coin purse. Quick snip from the Yes on 87 website (emphasis added):

California deserves its fair share. Currently, oil companies pay California almost nothing to drill, while they pay billions of dollars in drilling fees to every other oil producing state. Prop 87 will set California’s oil drilling fees at levels similar to those in Oklahoma, Alaska, and Texas at no cost to consumers and with no increase at the pump. The California Attorney General has confirmed that Prop 87 makes it illegal for oil companies to raise gas prices to pass the cost of the fee to consumers.

Tight.

Ignore me once, shame on you. Ignore me twice, fuck you I'll post it on my own site

Answer me, dammit!

A comment I posted on the Arkansas Family Coalition site (here first), which was deleted, then re-posted by another reader, then deleted again, and finally reposted under this post.

I just don't understand this. PLEASE somebody explain to me how Lance and Steve marrying and lovingly raising a child TEARS at the very FOUNDATION of our society? How does what's happening in San Francisco effect San Antonio, or even San Diego???? I'm not being sarcastic or facecious: enlighten me. You don't even have to write anything, you can direct me to a good editorial on it or something.

And if anyone from the Arkansas blog reads this: Your state flag is fucking creepy

Activism for Dummies

We Should Get Us One of these Things

The conservatives appear way adhead of us on this one... Wow, who knew it was so easy? You don't even need to "believe" in anything, just be loud about it.

Here's ours:
Activism for Lazy Young Liberals
1. Put up a poster in your window: something to identify you as a liberal person
2. Get used to it: Accept that most idiots and jackasses out there will be refering to you as a "pinko' or a "fag" or a "commie ass hippie." Tell them that you also enjoy eating babies
3. DO NOT reject people of religion: we only hear about people who are completely insane (they're much more interesting) but trust me, there are good people out there
4. REMEMBER what you stand for:

• Acceptance of people of every creed, race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, and socio-economic status
• The drive for a more equal and just society
  
• The belief that a society is only as strong as it's weakest members, thus it is to the society's benefit and is the society's responsibility to help the weak and in need
• The drive for improving public schools, returning to a correctional justice system, and instituting effective and universal drug/heath coverage
• Yes that might involve raising taxes, deal with it, I can almost guarentee you that the extra few dollars will NOT break the bank
• A deep, fundamental belief in freedom, and the rights of all living things (humans in particular)
• The right of women to choose, the right of people to raise their voice in opposition to anything...all rights
• And until they classify fertilized chicken eggs as "packaged meat" or "livestock," Pro-Life will be a misnomer
• A faith in the power of diplomacy, compromise, and statesmanship
• Be polite, talk it over, and try to avoid killing eachother

You get the idea...