I don't need the reminder

Dear Sharper Image, Cherry Moon Farms, and ProFlowers:

Please stop sending me daily reminders that Father's Day is almost upon us.  You have never had a FDay order from me, and there is a reason for that.


No Love,
Me

You Klingon bastard...

Big news over at The Cold War this week.  Bellatrix has murdered Ron.  Molly is so phenomenally over the edge that she is scaring me.

Loving Day

I heard this commentary on NPR this morning (on my way to work after a mammogram - look, stealth TMI!).  I didn't realize that it was actually illegal to marry across the "racial divide" in my lifetime, but I'm glad that there were people brave enough to do jail time for what they believed was right.  We are all better for their actions.

My favorite section of the commentary here:

For a lot of you youngsters raised in a multi-cultural society, I'm sure it's hard to believe people could get so bent they'd actually write laws restricting affairs of the heart. But interracial marriage - miscegenation is the pejorative - was once a severely odious concept. In 1912, Congressman Seaborn Roddenbery of Georgia tried to introduce an amendment to the Constitution banning such unions. To his colleagues in Congress he lectured:

"It is contrary and averse to every sentiment of pure American spirit. It is contrary and averse to the very principles of a pure Saxon government. It is subversive of social peace. ... No more voracious parasite ever sucked at the heart of pure society and moral status than the one which welcomes or recognizes everywhere the sacred ties of wedlock between Africa and America."

"Aren't you glad we're living in a time when politicians don't use relationships between consenting adults as wedge issues?  I digress."

Happy Loving Day, guys!