Flippy - I Rant, You Read
Wednesday, August 17, 2005
Yooooge (as Reege would say) Headache
And yeah, I’m not even talking about the car dealer today. Just a headache that’s lasted alllllll day. You know, I’d rather be fresh alllll day. Okay, I was, but I still have a headache. Not enough sleep, I guess. Frankie was kind of a pain in the ass last night. I turned out the light and then Frank decided it was time to clean every inch of his body with his very rough and loud tongue. Right in my ear. Then, as if that wasn’t bad enough, police cars or ambulances or something were zooming down the street at around 3:38 am, not that I was checking the exact time or anything. Oh wait, then again at 3:42 am. I wonder what goes on down that way all the time. Whenever I hear sirens, they’re always going way past us. I mean, that’s good, but really, what are they doing down there? They’re all brand new houses (less than four years old) and expensive, so it’s probably not meth labs exploding or anything.
Speaking of meth labs, or rather meth users. This new Oregon law requiring a prescription for cold meds—oh please, we all have to pay for a doctor’s visit and wait for a prescription to be filled because of drug addicts? How about we just give them all the free meth they want, as long as they’re locked up in their own area of town? They can use as much as they want. I am NOT going to a doctor to get a prescription for sinus problems. My insurance sucks, doctors don’t need the extra tedium of seeing people with sinus problems and I am not going to end up paying $50+ for a $5 or less box of sinus pills because some idiot wants to cook up meth. I read that half the meth comes from outside the country anyway. So, it’s going to inconvenience (and cost) law-abiding citizens and the meth users are going to get their drugs anyway.
In the Las Vegas Review-Journal today, the words of wisdom of a woman whose daughter was killed by a woman who was going almost twice the speed limit and had marijuana and METH in her system - “It hurts people”, referring to the marijuana. Yes, I feel sorry for anyone whose child is killed, but she wasn’t killed by pot. She was killed by a woman who was speeding and driving under the influence. Every single day here in Las Vegas someone is killed by a drunk driver, it seems. Where are the “alcohol hurts people” statements? You know what hurts people, idiots driving under the influence of anything. I’m tired of the marijuana demon crap. No one has ever died from smoking it. Pot smokers don’t suddenly turn into raging monsters and beat their spouses. They mostly sit on their couches and eat ice-cream and potato chips. Some of them use it to control pain, which of course, is a terrible terrible thing. People should have to use artificial crap made in labs and pay $20/pill for pain relief, not get that stuff that someone could grow by throwing some seeds into some fertile land. Heh, that land would not be our back yard though. We have to hire strong men with big machines to dig holes in our cement-like yard to plant anything.
What is the above rant about? My new favorite show “Weeds”? My headaches? My cranky mood? The fact that JD is still on Rockstar: INXS? The stupid letters to the editor today about protecting their innocent little children from an article in the newspaper about gay clubs? Seriously, whose small children read the paper? And if they DO read the paper, they’re also reading stuff online. Hello, gay people exist. Some of them occasionally go out to clubs. Here are the stupid letters:
Alternative lifestyles
To the editor:
I am disgusted with Monday’s Living section. To open the newspaper and be assaulted with pictures of people dancing in alternative-lifestyle establishments was indeed disturbing ("Night moves").
Being the parent of children who enjoy reading the newspaper as I do, I am even more concerned because of this content in the newspaper. Alternative lifestyles do exist, but why do they have to be advertised in such a way as to expose families and children to them?
The pictures that accompanied this article were very offensive, and in my opinion, such an article should never have been included in the newspaper. Include it in some other magazine or newspaper so young children are not exposed to such garbage.
D. Neuman
LAS VEGAS
Offensive photographs
To the editor:
I was the first one to open the newspaper Monday morning. Thank God my school-age daughter was not. Why was the feature story on the front page of the Living section plastered with a story about gay entertainment—with pictures?
It’s horrible enough to see the ads on nearly every corner of Las Vegas. Why would someone give permission to have this printed in a family newspaper? Why do they feel this would be news that this entire town would want to see?
To those who are in charge of the Review-Journal: Shame on you!
Kristen Howard
NORTH LAS VEGAS
What the heck are these people afraid of? Are gay boogeymen going to lure their children into a gay club? People, if your kids are gay, they’re going to find the clubs anyway. If they’re not, they don’t care. Also, the ads are NOT on every corner of Las Vegas. In fact, there are very very few ads for gay clubs anywhere. It’s pretty much hidden in the gay ghetto off of Paradise/Trop. I’m so tired of the right-wing whiners. Not every article in the newspaper is for YOU. If you don’t like what’s happening in Vegas; if it’s too much for your little heart to handle, then MOVE. Move your coddled children to Alabama or Texas. If you’re going to have children in Las Vegas, you’d better be able to be a grownup and handle questions about all of the free booze, the gambling, the strip clubs and the ads for straight clubs that practically have women licking each other...because that’s what YOUR straight husbands want to see. My complaint about the article - the women weren’t better looking. If I’m gonna look at lesbians in the paper, I want them all to look like Portia de Rossi. You don’t want your children to see gay people...I want them to see HOT gay people. 
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Personally, I was MUCH more offended by the photo on the front of today’s newspaper featuring a 14” long weiner. A weiner, practically naked, with just a little bitty bun barely covering its middle bits! Think of the children—should they really be looking at photos of 14” frankfurters?
Leigh-Ann on 08/17 at 10:25 PM -
That thing *was* gross. Little bitty bun and just tiniest bit of cheese and stuff covering its middle. Frankly (heh), it looked like Long Dong Silver. But, you know what, I’ll bet the uptight child coddlers are perfectly okay with big ol’ wienies splattered all over the front page of the Food Section. Diiiiiiis-gusting!
on 08/17 at 10:38 PM -
"Alternative lifestyles.” Lord. Didn’t you know? There is only One True Lifestyle, and the rest are just “alternatives.”
And I wish everyone looked like Portia Rossi, too.
supa on 08/18 at 04:25 AM -
i heard the gay is catching though! through the newspaper even maybe! yikes.
jenB on 08/18 at 05:37 AM -
Jeez. I get so tired of hearing this crap everyday. I live in the capitol of the most “liberal” state, and yet, everyday I put up with hearing how immoral I am.
In case you are wondering...my daily immoral activities consist of laundry, running a business, cooking, driving my child hither and yon, and telling my “spouse” daily that I love her and cherish her, and snuggling with her every night. The same immoral activities as you and your “spouse”! Even my 11 yr old ask why people are so confused about all this, “Mom, you’re just normal.” (What she really means is that I’m not very interesting, which is okay with me.)
My favorite comment when people figure out that I’m gay, “But you don’t look gay!”
It’s so nice to have found you, Flippy!!
on 08/18 at 07:34 AM -
Yes, today my immoral activities will be: taking the little dogs out; then letting the big dogs out; eating breakfast; feeding & changing the birds’ water; go out and buying new dog food for the little dogs; hopefully some laundry; getting some gas for the car; hopefully doing some work; getting some dinner from Zaba’s Mexican Grill (yum!); ranting about the new layout of HuffingtonPost.com; seeing what’s up in the blogosphere; and, recruiting small children into the above alternative lifestyle. Oh, oops, did I say that?
What really annoys me - I haven’t been to a gay club in more ten years. I haven’t been to a gay club in Las Vegas in twenty years. I don’t even have any gay friends in Las Vegas (if some g/l folks in LV are out there reading and would like to be friends, I’m not opposed, but I’m not going to look for you at clubs), so this right-wing fantasy world of what we gay folks are up to in Sin City is so, well, stupid. Look around, you people who are worried about articles about gay clubs - do you think that just maybe there might be other more important things to worry about? Our soldiers getting killed every single day in Iraq, even though the Iraqis NEVER attacked us? Poverty everywhere? Abused children in non-alternative families (wanna see the stories, check the paper every single day here)? The high prices of gas, even though the oil companies are making so much money (BILLIONS) in profit every month that they don’t even know what to do with it? A president who goes bike riding and takes naps, instead of meeting with a grieving mother? Just effin’ meet with her already and maybe she’ll go home. Didja ever think about that?
Wow, I need some coffee. Or a smoothie or somethin’.
on 08/18 at 09:47 AM -
Sorry that I am a few days late on this post, but it sounds like you could use a virtual hug!
Don’t let a bunch of morons get you down. Those women’s letters said more about them, than they did about anything else. It is alarming to think that these are the attitudes that they are ingraining into their children.
Expat on 08/18 at 08:14 PM -
Hey, you’re not even a day late. I posted the entry late last night and the ranty comment this morning.
I’m cool now. After reading today’s letters to the editor...and getting a bit of perspective thrown into my face tonight, I realize that my problems are quite small. (Heh, unlike my thighs) Although, those letters really do indicate why the world will never ever see peace.
on 08/18 at 09:28 PM
