Wow. What a great day.
 
Only the good die young: Former South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond finally kicked off today. He was 100 fucking years old. Thurmond defected from the Democrats to become a Barry Goldwater Republican in 1964 (left). Shit, he was old then, and that was before I was born! Looking at his 2002 photo (right), I don't know how they knew for sure that he was dead and not just sleeping (or even just being quiet and still). Thurmond was one of the architects of the modern Republican Party in the South. Satan is proud of his accomplishments.
Ding-dong, former South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond is dead. Thought he'd never die. The "former" segregationist lived to be 100. He retired in January, having done as much damage as U.S. senator as he possibly could. (Why do the Paul Wellstones of the world die young and the Strom Thurmonds make tortoises jealous?)
It was at Thurmond's 100th birthday party that former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott was forced to resign after he made his infamous racist remark. (What's Trent up to these days, anyway? Kicking it with Rick Santorum?)
 
Cats and dogs living together: Fags and dykes (we may say those words; you hets may not) celebrate the U.S. Supreme Court's 6-3 decision, handed down today, that no state may outlaw consensual sex between adults of the same sex.
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Lawrence v. Texas that anti-sodomy laws violate the constitutional right to privacy is more symbolic than anything else. Gay men and women have never needed the government's permission to have sex. Rather, Lawrence v. Texas is the last nail in the coffin of criminalization of consensual homosexual sex between adults, which is a huge step forward for gay and lesbian rights.
The Supreme Court had ruled in 1986 in Bowers v. Hardwick that anti-sodomy laws were constitutional. Lawrence overturns Bowers.
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was in the homophobic majority in Bowers but joined the homo-friendly majority in Lawrence. (Guess as you get older you worry about possibly going to hell, so you try to make amends for your sins.)
Predictably, Chief "Justice" William Rehnquist, "Justice" Antonin Scalia and "Justice" Clarence Thomas -- also in whom Satan is well pleased -- were the three dissenters. (Don't worry; like Strom Thurmond, they will die someday, too.)
Hey, you breeders benefit from Lawrence, too! It makes all state laws forbidding sodomy (anal and oral intercourse) between consenting heterosexual adults unconstitutional also.
Before today's Supreme Court decision, four of the Idiot States -- Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri -- prohibited oral and anal sex only between gay men and lesbians. Nine other Idiot States prohibited sodomy for homosexuals and heterosexuals: Alabama, Florida, Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Utah and Virginia.
Anyway, one day our children (well, you breeders' children, mostly...) will be shocked to learn in school that it took the U.S. Supreme Court until the year 2003 to finally get it right on gay and lesbian rights, much as those of us much younger than Strom Thurmond were surprised to learn in school that it took blacks until the 1960s to finally get some civil fucking rights.
As Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in the majority opinion in Lawrence, the authors of the U.S. Constitution "knew times can blind us to certain truths and later generations can see that laws once thought necessary and proper in fact serve only to oppress."
Not everyone was happy about the Supreme Court's decision. Oh, well, fuck him. (He looks like he needs it, and now it's legal.)
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