I'm stuck at the mechanics, waiting to get new tires put on the Cooper. I heart the BMW service center. Free WiFi, food, etc. I was getting a ton of work done, while watching Shark Week.

Then some IDIOT manager decided that Shark Week was too "depressing" so he put on fucking Oprah instead. The first two stories were about a woman who was a attacked by a bear and the second is about a girl that was trapped in a car sinking in water. Fuck this noise. I told the guy at the counter that Oprah sucks and could he put Shark Week back on? Nope, he says, this is what the manager wants.

Fine, I stuck my headphones in and listened to Jeff Buckely and gave the evil eye to everyone that works here. I found the customer service survey thing online and I'm considering writing a scathing report. There don't have any Dr. Pepper either...

I theifted this quiz from kouredios 



and it is totally accurate. My only complaint is that they didn't list "The Commitment" by Dan Savage as one of the book choices. That book I can read over and over.

I just got back from a weekend in Philly with heterodoxus. We saw his friend Andy Mac play. I love Andy. I love his music and I love him, he's an amazing entertaining and he's hysterically funny. He was touring this a guy named Rhen. We picked up his CD and its really good. I'm listening to it now.

I've got so much work to do. My To Do list is longer than my arm.

 for Larry Flynt.

Bill O'Reily claims lesbian gangs are taking over the country.

I, for one, welcome our lesbian overlords.

Well for those of us supporting a Democrat in the 2008 presidential election. Here's the deal. From the article:

"Speaking as a private citizen, no, no, I could not support (Giuliani)," said Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, which has about a half-million members.

Other prominent cultural conservatives to signal public opposition to Giuliani in recent weeks included James Dobson of Focus on the Family, Louis Sheldon of the Traditional Values Coalition, veteran activist and former presidential candidate Gary Bauer, and Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention.

Giuliani (whom I agree with on a lot of issues) is leading the national polls, currently, for the Republican nomination. If he wins the nomination, no conservative candidate will win the Presidency.

Bush has had the uncanny ability of bringing together the two very different halves of the Republican Party, fiscal conservatives and social conservatives. However, he's rapidly losing the support of both. Businesses hate the new immigration reform and religious leaders are pissed that no progress has been made to ban gay marriage.

Giuliani clearly isn't Bush. I can see him getting a lot of support from the typical "New York" Republicans, people who want low taxes and small government. However, isn't going to get support from the Religious Right because of his stance on abortion and gay marriage. This will split the Republican support base into two. Fortunately (for me) this means that the Religious Right will probably support a third party candidate. I mean, abortion and gay marriage are the Religious Right's big ticket items and if Giuliani isn't into purchasing, then they will sell them elsewhere.

Now, since about half of the population identifies themselves as "liberal" (not Democrat, there is a huge difference) and the other half identifies themselves as "conservative," theoretically about half the population will support the candidate on the Left (Obama!) and half will support the candidate on the right. Yet Giuliani, assuming he wins, will lose a big chunk of that half to someone else (Jesus).

~50% (Liberal) > ~50% (Conservative) - most of the fucking bible belt. It's simple math.

However, there is another point to take note of. Giuliani, being as liberal as he is, may attract some of the typical lefty votes. Perhaps, enough to win the election. While this is less than optimal, it is still good for those of us who don't appreciate the religious nut jobs telling us who to fuck, when to fuck them, and what your options are if the condom breaks, will still win. Currently, the Religious Right commands a tremendous amount of clout in Washington because they mobilized to elect Bush in 2000 and 2004. And they were successful. However, when they support a candidate who doesn't win (Jesus), they lose all of that clout. Giuliani owes them nothing, because they offered him no support. The Dems have no interest, as it is, in pandering to them. And all will be right with the world.

So, from an economic perspective, I will be support Giuliani in the primary and then Obama in the general election.

Also, check out heterodoxus's piece on Genarlow Wilson. I'm glad someone has some common fucking sense.