Friday, June 06, 2003

The Independent

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule--and both commonly succeed, and are right... The United States has never developed an aristocracy really disinterested or an intelligentsia really intelligent. Its history is simply a record of vacillations between two gangs of frauds.

-- H.L. Mencken (Who I am really liking)

So today a solicitation from Jim Jeffords arrived in the mail.

Yes, I know he's one of Vermont's senators and I live in Texas, but I'm on his mailing list somehow.

This sort of stuff normally goes straight to the garbage, but I'm actually sending Jeffords money.

Why?

For two reasons.

First, I think the two party system sucks and Jeffords is the only senator doing his own thing. Breaking away took intestinal fortitude -- something to be respected. Now that he's no longer affiliated with a party or its fundraising apparatus -- his personal fundraising is critical. I'd like to see the man returned to the Senate, and like my stance on women's professional sports -- gotta put my money where my mouth is.

Second, the man supports Roe v. Wade and I'm almost to the point of being a one issue voter. If they don't support the decision in Roe, I don't support them.

I also have pretty strong feelings about supporting second amendment rights -- but its not the deal breaker abortion is. Nobody tells me what to do with my body. Men shouldn't have any say on the issue at all.

Anyway -- hopping off that soapbox...

The Silver Stars won last night and Marie Ferdinand was in fine form. The final score had us ahead 15 points, but it wasn't a sure thing until the second half. The first half, I thought they were goners. If you'd asked me the likely outcome at that point, I'd have called it for Pheonix. Just goes to show.

For Mom -- 20 questions with Marie Ferdinand -- aka the prancy pony.

posted by Bohica at 10:24 PM