a Wednesday poem. for you. just because.

I'd like to pass this on because it is so ridiculous and cute but also cutting and poignant.
I don't think as many people know about this poem as they should.
It isn't a marvelous one for the ages, or one you should post on your wall.
It is just a good Wednesday-afternoon-perched-on-the-edge-of-a-migraine poem with incredible simile.

I hope you like it.

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Reasons
by Maya Beerbower

I enjoy you the way that one
enjoys eating uncooked tofu. You're enjoyable
like listening to an old man mouthbreathe
behind me in a dark movie theater, like
walking through Chinatown's seafood market
on trash day in the rain.
I feel good about you in the same way
I feel good about pulling strands of someone
else's wet hair from the shower drain or forcing
a worm onto a fishhook with a dull squish
or going through my father's freezer trying to identify
dinner from things-to-feed-the-snake.
Other women can still love you
because they don't know how you leave
chewed off fingernails
on counters. They don't know
you won't wash out the sink after
you shave and I find the stubble
in my toothbrush, or that you refuse
to turn on the air conditioning when it's 103 degrees
because you say it makes your skin look bad.
Other women don't know you're a sissy.
I cannot love you due to:
d) all of the above.
Also, because you ask me to tie your shoes,
and I mean you ask me all the time.

On Political Correctness

Which has become a little too important to some Americans.
It is one thing to stop prejudice in its myriad of forms, and quite another to go too far in the other direction...

This last one is just too much. There are no words...

In the words of the majestic Charlton Heston,
“Political correctness is tyranny with a happy face.” 

And then this gem (not sure who said it):
"The quickest way to end political correctness would be to start calling women 'vaginal Americans'"

Misogyny Won't Die!

  NO.

Rush Limbaugh:
a name synonymous with:

tactless, irrational, grating, maladroit,  and...
ok. I'll say it.
ASSHOLE!

I think the only reason this dumbf*** is still on the air is because people like to laugh at him and he is a status quo--always there for us to complain about.

his latest:
he was complaining about the debate regarding American employers paying for contraception for their employees under healthcare.
which is ok.
what is not ok:
a Georgetown law student has been publicly advocating for contraception to be covered and Limbaugh, on his show, called her a "slut" and a "prostitute" for this.

last time I checked
      a. Advocating for something in public did not make you a promiscuous person.
      b. He doesn't call dudes advocating this sluts.
      c. Using contraception LIKE A RESPONSIBLE ADULT to prevent having babies that you may not be      able to afford, want in general, or don't want right now, is NOT A BAD THING.  It should be encouraged. I think some associate contraception with abortion (Limbaugh may fall into this category, knowing what a dumbass he is).This is clearly wrong: effectively using contraception prevents abortion. And we all know that is a marvelously good thing.

it doesn't end there.

he went on to say that if women want their contraception covered by their employer, they can pay for it via public porn.
this guy can't be serious, you say.
I wish, I say.
he really means this shhhh....crap (I apologize for the cussing, but this topic and this man drive me to it).

he thinks if women want their contraception paid for they should post videos of themselves "using it" online to be fair to everyone else.

For those who think misogyny is dead, Limbaugh is still alive.
and he calls the women who want their contraception covered (at least partially) "Feminazis."  Gotta love that term.

I am so sick of people that must tear others down in order to feel satisfied, happy. Limbaugh is one of those. And on a side note--who the hell names their kid Rush?!?! He certainly does "rush" to judgement on everything though! Ha, ok, bad pun.
Other topics he has addressed (badly):

Parkinson's Disease
Remember when he accused Michael J. Fox of "faking it"? Look this up on YouTube if you haven't seen it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpFC9uziVhE

Obama
You don't have to agree with or even like Obama. But Rush constantly makes racist comments about him and even calls him "the Magic Negro." He is our President. So not ok.
He also wants to bring back segregation! "Slavery built the South...it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark."
And he wants to give the dude that shot MLK a Medal of Honor.

AIDS
He says that straight people can't get AIDS. "It's promiscuity that spreads this...it hasn't made the jump to the heterosexual community."

And all kinds of other shit. I'm bored with him and his idiocy already.
The guy called Nelson Mandela a communist for Christ's sake!
 The dude is the definition of STUPID AMERICAN and he makes us all look bad.

UPDATE: 1 pm 3/2
Obama just called the Georgetown student and gave her some words of encouragement. He thanked her for voicing her opinions and helping represent other American women. He said she should tell her parents she has made them proud.
Suck it, Limbaugh.

A Neo-Nazi in Congress?

 Look at this old timer. He looks nice enough, right?
                                               Welp...he is a Neo-Nazi.

There are those wackos out there that believe (and even tout) that the Holocaust never happened and was some kind of elaborate hoax, that historians and even victims of this time are pulling the wall over our eyes.

Sidenote: I’ve never quite understood what exactly they thought was being accomplished by this.. maybe to accuse the Jewish race of lying about their plight and further criminalize them? That is one of the Nazis' favorite agendas, after all.

Either way, these people exist in our world (unfortunately) and we can call them assholes and let them rant (they’ve got the right), but to elect a Neo-Nazi????
Now that is a different matter entirely.

Arthur Jones is a 64 year old Republican from Illinois who enjoys reading books, playing with his grandchildren, and throwing parties to celebrate Hitler’s birthday.
Yes, you read that right.

And he is running for Congress.

How do these things happen?!
It is one thing to have a different religious belief than a politician, or not like his stance on a few issues, but agree with him on everything else. It is another to vote in a Neo-Nazi. Period.
If he is planning events to celebrate the National Socialists of Germany, he should be registered as one (apparently he was in his younger years, when he participated in the Nazi Marquette March in 1978).

And he isn’t shy about his beliefs, calling the Holocaust “nothing more than an international extortion racket by the Jews…Millions of dollars are being made by Jews telling this tale of woe and misfortune….”

He believes America’s current state is comparable to Germany after WWI.
Maybe he sees himself as America’s Hitler-esque Savior and is using this election to get some power. It looks like his eventual goal is to destroy Israel (what else?). What a crackpot!

We need more rules and requirements in place to ensure nutters like this—nutters that admire genocidal maniacs and hope to mimic their careers—don’t have an ounce of power anywhere (except their living rooms). This is simply horrifying.
Arthur, you disgust me.
And I used to like the name Arthur. Now every time I watch the children’s cartoon Arthur I may be overcome with thoughts of Aryan supremacy. Shit.