Adam Rippon Doesn't Want To Meet Mike Pence ... Do You Blame Him?

Last week, openly gay US Olympic figure skater, Adam Rippon, expressed his distaste that Vice President Mike Pence, and Mother, I assume, is leading the US delegation to the Winter Olympics in South Korea:

“You mean Mike Pence, the same Mike Pence that funded gay conversion therapy? I’m not buying it.”

Rippon added that he would avoid a meet-and-greet with Pence because of his anti-LGBT views: 

“If it were before my event, I would absolutely not go out of my way to meet somebody who I felt has gone out of their way to not only show that they aren’t a friend of a gay person but that they think that they’re sick.”

Rippon blasted Pence’s ALLEGED “concept of reality” if he declares himself to be a “devout Christian” and yet stands by _____’s policies:

“If he’s okay with what’s being said about people and Americans and foreigners and about different countries that are being called ‘s—holes,’ I think he should really go to church.”

Naturally, Pence, well, not Pence, but one of his spokesbots, Alyssa Farah, has said that Adam Rippon’s claims that Mike Pence is anti-LGBT have “no basis in fact”:

“The vice president is proud to lead the U.S. delegation to the Olympics and support America’s incredible athletes. This accusation is totally false and has no basis in fact. Despite these misinformed claims, the vice president will be enthusiastically supporting all the U.S. athletes competing next month in Pyeongchang.”

He supports all of the athletes, y’all, which makes one wonder that …

Mike Pence ran a think-tank that published anti-gay articles;

Mike Pence attempted to divert HIV/AIDS money to fund anti-gay conversion therapy;

Mike Pence refused to protect LGBT Indianans from discrimination;

Mike Pence tried to legalize anti-LGBT discrimination in Indiana;

Mike Pence supported a ban on same-sex marriage;

Mike Pence railed against the ‘mainstreaming of homosexuality in the military’ after DADT was repealed.

To be clear: Mike Pence’s record is among the worst on LGBTQ issues of anyone who has ever occupied the office of the Vice President.

I don’t blame Rippon for not wanting to meet him. Though I bet Pence would be afraid to meet an actual gay person for fear it would yank him from his deep dark closet of shame.

Then what would Mother do?

Architecture Wednesday: The Origami House

I dubbed this one the origami House because that’s what it looks like to me, but the architect calls it “Hwa Hun,” which, in Korean, means “Blooming House.”

The home is located in the heart of Seoul, near the Bukhansan Mountain, and since the shape of the plot of land is an irregular polyhedron the architect decided that should be the shape of the house as well.

In order to satisfy the owner’s requirement for “living in nature,” and to maximize the area of green garden, all the exterior spaces of this house are covered with green plants as well. There are various leveled gardens, a forecourt garden, an inner court garden, a stair garden, a waterfall garden, and a roof garden.

And all of the “skins” of the house, except the road–side skins, are covered with green plants and fruit trees to create a sort of “architectural flower.”

It’s not everyone’s cup of tea, and some of the wonky walls and windows might be hard to handle, but it looks like a living sculpture on an urban hillside; a little garden in the midst of the city.

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