What a difference a day makes.....

I'm human again.

I left my office yesterday at a quarter to noon. I wasn't getting anything done and felt like crap. Nausea is not a particularly favorite sensation for me. Sitting at my desk and salivating - not the anticipatory salivation to comes with the scent of something delicious, but the preparatory stuff that precedes reliving your last meal - is not conducive to being productive.

I drove home, stopping at Safeway to pick up some 'medicinal' ginger ale. I was in bed by a quarter past Two, and out cold until half past Eight. I was up long enough to see Rachel Maddow and then it was back to bed. I awoke at 4 this morning, my right SI joint sore from lying down for so long, and I was awake just long enough to take some Celebrex and go back to sleep until 6:30.

Not sure if this was something viral, or simply a sleep deficit I didn't realize I'd been building, but I feel so much better than I did yesterday.

Thanks to everybody who sent well wishes; they're very much appreciated.

Time to face the day.......

Marriage Equality, the President and politics.

Alright, he said it. The president is in favor of civil marriage for same sex couples. He's now officially on the record.

I am not easy with his announcement.

Don't get me wrong. I'm glad he's in support. However, is this going to help get him re-elected? Given the stunts that have just happened in North Carolina and Colorado in the past 24 hours, I'm not so sure. His voiced support is one more thing for Republican conservatives to hurl at him. The last bloody thing either this country or our community needs is Mitt Romney in the White House come next January.

I'm serious here.

The idea that Mitt Romney might get elected and thereafter get to make an appointment or two to the Supreme Court sends ice water through my veins. I'm worried how things will fare for our community in front of the court as it's currently constituted. To see the court swing even further to the right? God forbid! Remember, this is the court that gave us Citizen's United on a 5-4 split. The five that voted in favor were all Reagan and Bush appointees. Romney makes a conservative appointment? I might as well start packing to move abroad.

I have heard so many folks in our LGBT community voice their disappointment in Obama, that he hasn't been strong enough in supporting our community. Well, "don't ask, don't tell" is gone, and he's directed the Justice Department to not defend DOMA. Those were both pretty damned substantive in my eyes.

And then there was this action he took back in '09:

He has said publicly that we, the electorate have to keep his (and all government) feet to the fire. We have to be clear in our support. We have to get out there and vote. And contribute. And push everyone we know to get their collective butts to the polls. We didn't do that in 2010 and look where it got us? Democrats lost the House and not to the Republicans, but to the Tea Party. So many of the folks that got Obama into the White House in '08, sat home in '10.

Gridlock. Unmitigated gridlock.

The Kock brothers have to be toasting each other tonight. Obama out of office suits their desires. (Them and Sheldon Adelson and Bain Capital and Foster Freis and the majority of the well-healed 1%.) (and of course the well-healed Mr. Romney, who managed to send the Nat'l Organization for Marriage 10 grand in 2008. You remember them. They helped spearhead the Prop 8 campaign.)

I'm not one of the 1%. Tonight I opened my wallet and sent some cash to the Obama Campaign. And to Elizabeth Warren in Massachusetts. And to Tom Barrett who'll be facing Scott Walker in the recall in Wisconsin next month. Why? Because if not me, then who? You can be damned sure the Kock brothers are sending big bucks. Walker has amassed 25 million over the past 5 months to fund his campaign to fend off his recall. Barrett has less than a million.

So, the President has signaled he supports our right to marry. In return, I'm going to do everything I can to make sure he's still at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave next January. I ask each of you who can vote in this country to do the same. If we don't act, if we don't vote, if we don't contribute, we'll have only ourselves to blame.

Marriage Equality....

"Surrounded as I am now by wonderful children and grandchildren, not a day goes by that I don't think of Richard and our love, our right to marry, and how much it meant to me to have that freedom to marry the person precious to me, even if others thought he was the "wrong kind of person" for me to marry. I believe all Americans, no matter their race, no matter their sex, no matter their sexual orientation, should have that same freedom to marry. Government has no business imposing some people's religious beliefs over others. Especially if it denies people's civil rights.

I am still not a political person, but I am proud that Richard's and my name is on a court case that can help reinforce the love, the commitment, the fairness, and the family that so many people, black or white, young or old, gay or straight seek in life. I support the freedom to marry for all. That's what Loving, and loving, are all about." - Mildred Loving, June 12, 2007