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Aug. 21st, 2002 12:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
quislibetRandom musings upon reading the Metro this morning.
- "Seminatore" is an unfortunate name for an accused pedophile priest.
- The lawyer of four people accused of forging signatures on a petition to repeal Miami's gay-rights ordinance said that the forgery charges are "the work of the homosexual, bisexual and transsexual mafia that wants to destroy our families."
(And what do you call it when you leave the gay mafia?)
But in any case, this is patently ridiculous. It's too bad that people who think like this can't just be ignored.
Let's move on.
- What, I ask, is the point of treating cockpit recordings from the hijacked planes in Moussaoui's as evidence? Unless they reveal that Mohammed Atta said, moments before impact, "I'm bummed Zacarias Moussaoui had to miss this," the only reason can be in order to stir up the emotions of the jury against the defendant. Surely they can already decide on their own that the attacks were Bad.
- 'Diocese tries to keep molester's files private', claims one headline. This is mentioned here mainly because I was not awake enough to recognize the word 'molester', reading it as 'mole-ster', and had no fucking clue what that might mean. All I could think of was Fred Savage in 'Goldmember.'
- There's an oxygen bar now at the Cambridgeside Galleria. I shall not be going to it.
- Mass. gubernatorial(*) candidate Romney wants to bring back the death penalty, to force judges to be reappointed every two years (in order to 'rid the bench of "liberal judges"'), and to set up a website to publicize the addresses of sex offenders. I will skip over the first, other than to say that personally I think it is a bad thing. Let us move on to the other two: he's not saying he wants to make it easier to get rid of bad judges, he's saying explicitly he wants to make it easier to get rid of judges whose politics he disagrees with. Hmm. As for the last, why not just hand out free maps, torches, and nooses while you're at it? And why not, say, the addresses of murderers? (Oh, wait, they'll all have been executed, so never mind.)
(*) The word "gubernatorial," incidentally, is the etymological equivalent to "cybernetic," but neither word means what it used to (having to do with ships' pilots). It's just as well that the Greek rather than the Latin ended up applied to computers, or else we'd now have the phrase 'guber-sex.'
- "Seminatore" is an unfortunate name for an accused pedophile priest.
- The lawyer of four people accused of forging signatures on a petition to repeal Miami's gay-rights ordinance said that the forgery charges are "the work of the homosexual, bisexual and transsexual mafia that wants to destroy our families."
(And what do you call it when you leave the gay mafia?)
But in any case, this is patently ridiculous. It's too bad that people who think like this can't just be ignored.
Let's move on.
- What, I ask, is the point of treating cockpit recordings from the hijacked planes in Moussaoui's as evidence? Unless they reveal that Mohammed Atta said, moments before impact, "I'm bummed Zacarias Moussaoui had to miss this," the only reason can be in order to stir up the emotions of the jury against the defendant. Surely they can already decide on their own that the attacks were Bad.
- 'Diocese tries to keep molester's files private', claims one headline. This is mentioned here mainly because I was not awake enough to recognize the word 'molester', reading it as 'mole-ster', and had no fucking clue what that might mean. All I could think of was Fred Savage in 'Goldmember.'
- There's an oxygen bar now at the Cambridgeside Galleria. I shall not be going to it.
- Mass. gubernatorial(*) candidate Romney wants to bring back the death penalty, to force judges to be reappointed every two years (in order to 'rid the bench of "liberal judges"'), and to set up a website to publicize the addresses of sex offenders. I will skip over the first, other than to say that personally I think it is a bad thing. Let us move on to the other two: he's not saying he wants to make it easier to get rid of bad judges, he's saying explicitly he wants to make it easier to get rid of judges whose politics he disagrees with. Hmm. As for the last, why not just hand out free maps, torches, and nooses while you're at it? And why not, say, the addresses of murderers? (Oh, wait, they'll all have been executed, so never mind.)
(*) The word "gubernatorial," incidentally, is the etymological equivalent to "cybernetic," but neither word means what it used to (having to do with ships' pilots). It's just as well that the Greek rather than the Latin ended up applied to computers, or else we'd now have the phrase 'guber-sex.'
