So anyone who wants to discuss it, feel free to catch me or comment below. And anyone who's afraid of spoilers should probably avoid the comment thread. ;)

Written to a friend I'd not been in touch with as much as I'd like, post-Babyocalypse: Timing, 'tis an awkward and mischevious thing; done right, can make a peasant to a king; done wrong, a king to a prisoner in a cell, so what's to do? Best to do it well; but life throws its wrenches, out of sync with any dance; a desert in which a drink is absent when you need it, a flood when you do not. And...

That is the mantra I am reminding myself of, throughout thinking on the Prop. 8 issues. We will win. It will be a hard fight. There will be a lot of sweat spent, a lot of tears cried, and, I suspect, some blood spilled. But we will win. And do you know how I know this? Because they had to cheat. And cheat in ways that, had there been more time, more effort, more work, would have been utterly exposed...

...on a day when I am proud of my country, don't make me ashamed of my state.

"You should have expected that if you named her after an opera."

(The rest of you can just smile, nod, and reflect upon the unintended side-effects of more-than-the-usual-number-of-adult households.) pantryslut  is going in for a scheduled C-section tomorrow; hence, in the near future, I will no longer be Uncle Bear Daddy-in-waiting, but Uncle Bear Daddy.

So, come this weekend, I'll be reading the same story twice: At Arse Erotica, a Sex-and-SF-themed reading at the Center for Sex and Culture, affiliated with the Arse Technological conference, (Friday, 9 PM) and at Perverts Put Out, Counterpulse, 7:30 (for you earlybirds.) The story? "Sex and the Single Science-Fictional Soldier" You have been warned. ;)

2010: Sebastian Vettel wins his first world title in the electric-engined Renault F1E. 2012: During the presidential debate, Republican nominee Sen. Inhofe suffers a heart attack; life is saved by CPR administered by Pres. Obama. 2034: Hurricane Valeska becomes first hurricane defused by the newly-deployed Orbital Weather-Control system. 2046: First terraforming Von Neumann machines land on Mars. 2070...

Here's the reasoning: "OK. Our big strength has been that our candidate was ready to lead. So we need to balance that out with someone inexperienced.  Oh, right, and we lost a lot of voters in 2006 in part due to ethics struggles, so let's pick someone who has ethical issues in her own home state, where 2 of three members of Congress are under indictment." "Oh! Right! And the opponents are running...

..at least, that isn't trying to solve problems with Sun servers, so here's a good political-architectural rant, instead: Uppity....Pillars? What The Hell? (from dailykos)