Random Musings

A little on The Debate:

The moderator, Jim Lehrer, seemed out of his element and really unable to control the debate.

Romney came out strong, though basically said nothing—unless you call Killing Big Bird important—and, well, every time I saw his arrogant little smirk, while Obama spoke, I turned into Elvis Presley and looked for a gun to shoot out my TV set.

Obama seemed like he wanted to be somewhere else, and didn’t really get off too many points. What was with the whole “head down” thing?

Hopefully the next debate will bring back Obama and he’ll mop the floor with Mittsy.

Sidenote: Mittsy.

I am seriously annoyed by the fact that he says he has all these great ideas to fix every single problem that ails us, but he won’t tell us about them

Guess what? I have a way to harness the sun’s energy so we’ll never have to really on foreign oil again, but I won’t tell you until I have $100 billion from investors.

Yeah, it’s like that.

Dexter is back and I’m loving it. At the end of last season, we found Dexter just killing the Doomsday Killer when his sister Deborah walked in. He was caught. Would he get out? Could he?

This season started with him telling Deborah he’d snapped, and was sorry, and it looked like the writers would take the easy cliffhanger route and just deny deny deny.

Except :::SPOILER ALERT:::: at the end of the episode, when Dexter came home to find Deborah in his house, with his killing bag, his knives, his files, and his blood slides.

It’s gonna be good.

Also good is Homeland—which officially makes Sunday night the most watched TV night in our house. I mean, The Amazing Race, Once Upon A Time, Dexter, Copper, Homeland, Revenge and 666 Park Avenue. Thank god for a little thing I call The DVR.

And let’s have a rousing Huzzah for MSNBC anchor Thomas Roberts and his longtime partner Patrick Abner who were married over the weekend in New York City.

Hottie California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom officiated at the ceremony.

Best wishes to both men.

I’m still amazed that this happens, though not everywhere, not yet.

Okay, I may piss people off, but this new version of Steel Magnolias is kinda bugging me.

Every time it gets mentioned, they call it a new version of a “classic.” Um, I tend to think of Gone With The Wind, Casablanca, All About Eve as classics, not some, reasonably good movie that came out 23 years ago.

It’s not a classic remake, it’s a remake.

Remember how I said Romney has all these plans for the country but won’t divulge them until he’s elected? Yeah, now his Little Boy, Paulie Lyin’ Ryan is doing it, too.

When Ryan appeared on FOX News Sunday's Chris Wallace, Wallace pressed Ryan to explain, mathematically, how the Romney-Ryan tax plan would lower taxpayer bills by 20 percent without costing anything, and Paul Ryan said: “I don’t have the ... It would take me too long to go through all of the math."

Or, you don’t know how it works because it doesn’t work.

According tony Magazine:

“Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are understandably reluctant to explain the specifics their tax plan, because then they'd have to admit that it is mathematically impossible for them to institute their proposed cuts for the rich without raising the middle-class's tax burden.”

Adds the Daily Kos:

Ryan is straight-up using his reputation as the Republican party's big budget wonk to get out of giving direct answers to any actual budget wonking questions. Because from his point of view, "I don't want to get too wonky" or "I don't have the time" are more palatable answers than "if I gave you details you'd see that I've been lying."

Just say No to Ruin/Lyin, er, Romney/Ryan.

Good news outta Maine.

A new poll shows that "the referendum proposal to legalize same-sex marriage in Maine leads 57 percent to 36 percent, with 7 percent saying they are undecided."

This is good. This means the people of Maine are voting for equality. We’ve had judges enforce equality, and legislatures vote equality, and now the public follows suit.

It’s a trend, I tell ya.

On the flip side….

In England, the Christian Institute, citing an the Office of National Statistics survey that found that 2.6% of people questioned identified themselves as either lesbian, gay or bisexual, begs the question of why let The Gays marry? There aren’t many of them so let’s just let bigotry and inequality stand!

Although groups like Stonewall have long estimated the LGB population to be around 10%, the findings of the Office of National Statistics survey says 1.5% are gay men, 0.7% are lesbian, and 0.4% are bisexual.

were that 1.5 per cent of men say they are gay, 0.7 per cent of women say they are lesbian, and 0.4 per cent of people say they are bisexual, which caused Mike Judge of the Christian Institute, to say, “It is staggering that such a monumental change is being carried out on behalf of a tiny proportion of society.”

Yes, because we aren’t many, this group of, ahem, “Christians,” think its fine to just let The Gays be less than.

Of course, the poll doesn’t take into consideration how many people refused to answer the question, out of a sense of fear, out of being closeted, out of thinking, ‘Why are you asking this?’ So the actual number of gay folks in England could be, and probably is, higher.

But whatever the number, does it make sense to deny equality to people based on the numbers of those people?

And finally, a funny Tweet about last night's debate: