Nearly ...

A great night's sleep. I had to pee every three hours. And offset by 90 minutes, I had a nightmare every three hours. But other than that... :)

Interesting set of nightmares. All involved Crazed Imaginations. And all were conspiracies involving different people in cast trying to squeeze me out. Serious violence, threat and intimidation.

That, of course, got me thinking about Dubya. In Eisler's theory, he would be the epitome of Dominator Model Maintenance. Enforced hierarchy that is maintained by violence, the threat of violence or simply by intimidation. Dubya? a school yard bully? Well, Duh!

Excuse me, George.

I have become increasingly curious over the last four years. Just which cheek are you turning?

Heard on the radio

I listened to a lawyer is the legal counsel for some right wing anti-gay group today. He was being interviewed on NPR. He had his talking points and his jargon down pat.

For instance, when asked if he thought Bush might push the marriage amendment, he said he thought that cases reaching the Supreme Court with be Full Faith and Credit cases. This is most likely true. Then he said, "The court will have to decide if the Constitution mandates gay marriage."

Talking about framing the conversation!

There is an education issue here that needs to be addressed by every libertarian and liberal. The Constitution of the United States doesn't grant rights so much as it restricts the governments ability to abridge our natural rights.

Religious political extremists have been shifting this conversation slowly over the last 30 years. Where the Republican Party used to be a states' rights party -- that is, as little federal intervention into the affairs of a given state as possible -- it has become the party of centralization.

And the party is now out to redefine how Americans think about their freedoms while, at the same time, using backward logic to strip us of our right to free self expression.

Anyone capable of speaking coherently on civil or human rights might consider NOW to be a good time to speak. Call every talk show, write to every newspaper and laugh out loud at the really bad spin. Don't dignify the hard right's attempts to steer every conversation. Laugh them off as ignorant. Make them work harder, at least.

Sigh.