George W. Bush's FDA guidelines barred gay men from being sperm donors as of 2005, even though all donated sperm is screened for sexually-transmitted diseases and even the most promiscuous heterosexual men are not barred from donating. This makes me want to fucking scream like a banshee! I would prefer to have a gay man as my sperm donor! Actually, I don't care either way. Just as long as he's a wonderful man with admirable values and some success in his life who has nice teeth, decent looks, and the like then he is fabulous in my book. Anyway, I'm sure my one uncle was an ardently enthusiastic supporter of Bush disallowing gay men from being sperm donors...he's the biggest hypocrite that ever walked this Earth. And his brother is a gay man living in San Fran. And according to my mom he is the most kind-hearted guy ever. I wonder how he must feel to have such a narrow-minded, bigoted, contemptuous human being.
There are a wide array of conservatives out there. There are those who are more ponderous, less hateful and loathsome, but who have traditional values. One of my best friends is a staunch conservative---she may not exactly be pro-gay marriage, but she loves me to death nonetheless, and wouldn't miss my wedding for the world (if I ever get married in this lifetime, let alone meet anyone.) Gay issues is kind of a sore subject for us though---what I mean by this is that I wouldn't go and discuss my love life (or lack thereof because there are no fucking hot lesbians here!) with her or gab about how I want Cheryl Cole and Rachel McAdams to gang bang me. Her church is rather extremist and are very much on the brainwashing religion side of the spectrum. From what I can gather, they don't exactly encourage you to think for yourself. The BIBLE thinks FOR you. Sick and twisted. No free-spirits permitted! I, on the other hand, was raised Catholic but ever since I came to college I like to think of myself as more of a "spiritual explorer." I am intrigued by a slew of religious. Buddhism. Unitarian Universalism. Judaism. Those seem much more up my alley than Christianity. I don't feel welcome or comfortable at my church at home WHATSOEVER. But I'm forced to go so I make the best of it. I need something with far more wiggle room.
In any case, back to trashing slimy, small-minded people. AKA quite a few of my relatives. They provoke my mother to no end. And make me seethe, wild with fury like murderous villian. My dad remains calm and collected per usual, but my brothers despise most of them too. They talk trash about a handful of them because of their snooty, haughty, prejudice, homophobic and racist ways. I don't know how I'm going to handle the next family event with them all.
I mean, it's admirable to be opinionated and form your own opinions on social, political and economical subject matters but to impose them on others without any warning is unwarranted, completely inappropriate and sickeningly petulant. Despicable. They do it obsessively. Constantly. Ceaselessly. There is no end to the contempt and the mayhem. Every ounce of their stamina and effort goes into riling my poor mother up. There may be more of those ignorant, ill-informed dreadful creatures who I am now ashamed to be related to, but my mom is a thousand times more informed, articulate, thoughtful and knows her shit. She isn't brainwashed by Fox News like them, for instance. She reads everything---both sides to the story about everything. That is the most commendable thing about her. Don't worry mom, soon enough, in the not too distant future, they will see how erroneous and wretched the things they have said and done are. Most of them just parrot one of my uncles though---they have no mind of their own.
Anyway, Dubya is a dirty little rat. It's sickening that he was on the news recently garnering public attention...get him the fuck out of the media already! Well at least his autobiography sales were wretched. Thank God. Go Bill Clinton! "My Life" trumped Dubya's most likely ghostwritten piece of self-promoting trash. Any fucking fool can get a book published these days. It's saddening. What is that telling us about the literary market?!?! It's plummeting, that's what's occurring! If Speidi and the Situation can get books published effortlessly...such as, hmmm let's say with topics ranging from how to avoid grenades to how to avoid land mines and brilliant, hard-working, wildly imaginative writers are being shot down so these goddamn fools can get the book deals, that's utter bullshit. What is this world coming to?!?!
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