BLOGGER SURVIVOR

I've been keeping half an eye on Blogger Survivor. Thanks to Don's laziness & general douchebaggery, there isn't always a lot going on. But right now they've got the third immunity challenge up:

Don has been late on several occassions. Determine his punishment.

Ok, Don, write a 5000 word essay on Immanuel Kant WITHOUT using any of the following words:

angry, atrocious, bad, baneful, base, beastly, bitchy, black, calamitous, corrupt, damnable, depraved, destructive, disastrous, evil, execrable, flagitious, foul, harmful, hateful, heinous, hideous, iniquitous, injurious, loathsome, low, maleficent, malevolent, malicious, malignant, nefarious, no good, obscene, offensive, pernicious, poison, rancorous, reprobate, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, sinful, spiteful, stinking, ugly, unpleasant, unpropitious, vicious, vile, villainous, wicked, wrathful, or wrong.

MUAHAHAHA!

Uh,... you probably have to be an Objectivist to get that one.

IS IT ABOUT THE MARRIAGE OR THE GAY?

When discussing gay marriage, one of the points I see being brought up most frequently is that the purpose of marriage is, historically speaking, to provide an institution for raising children. Which is true, and I can't really argue otherwise.

But it makes me uncomfortable, because I'm part of a deliberately childless marriage. By the above argument, my marriage is as illegitimate as a gay pairing.

Personally, I think that marriage is about the commitment, not the children. Progeny are a secondary, although important consideration. I believe that society should encourage long-term committed relationships because they act as a stabilizing force in a community. They encourage long-term planning and decision-making.

Via the Carnival #62, I find the Boi from Troy making a similar point:

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Straight people have the institution of marriage to look forward to. They are expected to get married. If you are not married by 30, people start asking questions.

Gay people do not have the institution of marriage. They are expected to screw around. If you are in a long-term committed relationship by the age of 30, many will consider you an aberration.

I believe that marriage and monogamy are inextricably linked. Not having the expectation of marriage contributes to high levels of promiscuity in the gay community..

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American Digest quotes David Brooks similarly:

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"The conservative course is not to banish gay people from making such commitments. It is to expect that they make such commitments. We shouldn't just allow gay marriage. We should insist on gay marriage. We should regard it as scandalous that two people could claim to love each other and not want to sanctify their love with marriage and fidelity.

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So although I'm  not sure it's appropriate to refer to a homosexual union as a "marriage" for definitional purposes, I do support the idea of encouraging homosexuals to make their bonds permanent and committed.

ALLIANCE BLOG-BUDDIES

I updated my blogroll to include my Alliance Blog-Buddies. Who are they? They are the 2 blogs listed above me and the 2 blogs listed below me on the official Alliance HQ blogroll.

Why are they there? Because I want the Alliance to win back the sponsorship of the New Blog Showcase. I'm going to watch their backs, remind them to vote if they need reminding, check their names on the Bear's Voting Scorecard to make sure they were counted, and if they did vote in the showcase, I'll say thanks and I'll also click the link they posted, just to make sure it works (as well as driving a little traffic from their site to the new blog, so that the votee will see my buddy's name in their referer logs).

I hope they'll do the same for me.

I hope all Alliance members will do the same for their Blog-Buddies.

The League of Liberals must lose, and I'm willing to do what it takes to make it happen.

TODAY'S LOVE NOTE

(Introduction)

Better than I was…

More than I am…

And all of this happened

With the touch of your hand

And who I am now is

Who I’ve wanted to be…

And now that we’re together

I’m stronger than ever,

Happy and free.

It’s a beautiful thing –

Don’t think I can keep it all in…

I’ve just got to let you know

What it is that won’t let me go –

It’s your love.

It just does something to me…

Sends a shock right through me

And I can’t get enough.

If you wonder about the spell I’m under –

It’s your love.

TODAY’S GRAFFITI CURRENCY



So THAT's why Frank hasn't been blogging lately...

CARNIVAL #62

Up & running at Setting the World to Rights. I must admit, the intros tended more towards the "poke the writer in the ribs" side than usual. It was like a Bonfire writ large. And for my part, I enjoyed the intros more than a lot of the entries. I had some trouble finding anything I liked (well, except the spanking posts, of course). Probably because I'm in a fairly chipper mood right now, and most of the entries seemed heavy & dour. Nevertheless, I DID like this one. A short bit of humor, and besides, I think I knew that girl...

BONFIRE

Burning at Kevin's. Not so much suck as long-winded.

But I rather liked Susie's entry, which contains the following:

"joy... oil... on top of... fun"

I like her because she's so naughty :-)

THIS THANKSGIVING, I AM GRATEFUL FOR:

Big-boobied braless bloggerettes.

THE BEST REASON TO WEAR LINGERIE

My partner forced me to wear it, thus making me look and feel like a libidinous man's plaything, becoming nothing more than a sexual object in his eyes

I'm taking this line out of context from a post at Meryl's which I found via Kevin. I like it better this way, because in the original post, it was written so as to be a BAD thing.

THANKSGIVING IN A NUTSHELL

Lynn says it best. The other 364 days a year, we work and plan and schedule and worry and fuss:

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And then there's Thanksgiving. A lot of planning goes into our big celebrations but once the day is here everything stops. It's almost like going back in time. Families get together and really spend time together. We actually talk. Nothing deep. Why spoil the day with too much seriousness? We talk about the food, how tight our clothes are getting, how fast the kids are growing; we re-tell the same stories we have told on every other Thanksgiving we can remember. It doesn't matter what we talk about. What's important is that we're relaxing and spending time together without feeling guilty about not being somewhere else.

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