We truely do live in a new world where discrimination runs rampant and religion governs rather than common sense. Publishers in Texas changed the wording in health textbooks to reflect marriage as that between a man and a woman.

The decision could affect dozens of states because books sold in Texas, the nation�s second-largest textbook buyer, often are marketed elsewhere...
�I want the reader, the child to know that marriage is between a man and a woman,� Leo said in a written statement released during a board meeting Thursday.
Berlanga noted that one textbook showed a picture of a mother and a father and a young girl and her brother. �We cannot start censoring books because we do not like the terminology,� Berlanga said. �I don�t see two males or two females holding hands.�

What about all the children of same-sex couples? "Oh gee, sorry! Your Daddies are sinners. They're so going to hell." It says that right underneath the section on sexual dysfunction, unless that's been excised too in favor of abstinance because god forbid our children hear anything that might pervert their poor depraved minds!

The teaser trailer for Revenge of the Sith has premiered online. Drool my pretties, drool. This is probably as good as it will get.
::shivers as the last notes of the "Death March" play::

I wonder if it's easier to become a lawyer in Canada...

Boing Boing is reporting that the RIAA's cousin, the MPAA, plans to file a ridiculous amount of lawsuits against filesharers.
I guess the whole, "You're stealing from the carpenters," campaign didn't work out. Can you blame us? I have it timed to get to the theater exactly after all the ads have ended and the previews have begun. If I wanted to see an advertisement on Coke Carb, I'd turn on my tv. That is if my roommate was up to torturing me for failing to tape Gilmore Girls.

Have you voted yet? If your answer is in the negative, my question to you is "What the HELL are you waiting for!!!"
Go vote!

I'm ashamed to admit that I'm excited about tomorrow. I don't know exactly why it's shameful just yet, other than the fact that my roommate grimaced, and I'm still watching Gilmore Girls and Veronica Mars. It's all about the numbers I guess. It's like watching a football or soccer (real football) game. If my favorite team is playing, I turn into a screaming wild thing that accidently alienates everyone around me. I can't help it, and it's quite fun.
I'm hopeing for quite a winning score.
The only disappointing thing about this whole election is the atmosphere. I'm starting to think that whomever does get elected President won't change much. Too many people are playing the blame game, and it's so easy to say that all Republicans are evil, and that Democrats deserve to be shot. Will a new President, or an old one close the gap and try to make things better?
I hate reading blogs that talk about incidents of such unexplainable aggression when I know the same exists on the other side. Enough with the blame game.
I hate watching on the news that people are being threatened at poll sites. They're being told who they should vote for. Is this democracy, people? We will get nowhere if we start intimidating and fighting each other just to cast a vote. I really don't think the founding fathers had that in mind when they fought and won the war for our independance. Or are we so ignorant that we forget such an insignificant detail as that? After all, if the Pledge can be challenged, and more than half the nation doesn't know the words to the "Stars Bangled Banner" what else can we expect about our nation and its knowledge of its own history.
Stop the lying, stop with the threats, get the facts out, and tomorrow when the polls open make a choice and vote.
Oh, and this blog officially endorses me.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

I did it. I signed up. We can call me masochistic now.

I just failed at adding the Typekey authorization code to the comments section. All because I was too lazy to modify a tag here and there probably, but never fear, there's still tomorrow (if I'm not too hungover)!
The upgrade to version 3.121 did go ok. Apparently I still know how to do that! Then again, they way my server was hiccuping maybe it had one too many? The 'new entry' screen is kinda nifty. What I really want to do is implement subcategories and finish off the css tags and other templates that have been untouched since I first installed MT almost two years ago.
Hmm, we shall see. I have a bundle of nerves to kill these next few days, assuming that is, I don't kill myself. Here's to being productive.
Oh yeah, and somebody slap me! I'm five minutes away from signing up for NANOWRIMO.

Listening to: Tales of a Librarian - Tori Amos
I realized today that people are all too willing to help out when touch screens aren't accessible for voting. Yes, it's not one size fits all. And though I find it very sweet when the volunteers hold the screen up, move it closer, or even turn it upside down so I can hit the blinking "vote" button, I do tend to get nervous when that same nice volunteer starts making remarks about my choices! Had they been snide, I would have ruined the entire experience for everyone currently in that room. Needless to say it was an interesting day.
I voted. I waited in line for an hour in no air-conditioning to vote, but it's done. Two people almost commited vehicular homicide, but my scooter and I got there in one piece. Seriously, who's bright idea was it to set up an early voting site right across from a high school and elementary school with no sidewalk. San Antonio just doesn't believe in sidewalks apparently. And then they're so baffled as to why they're so many wheelchair fatalities on the roads.
Anyway, go vote!