So at least three nights running

I have come home, gone to sleep (sometimes as early as 6:30 pm, like I did today), slept for several hours, got up for a bit, and then struggled to get up in the morning. It's like I'm exhausted, even though I'm not really doing anything that should make it that way. My blood sugar is not unduly high (for me). I'm just curling up and going to bed. Than indicates an emotional reason to me, and that might be the case, but I won't go into it here. But I am sorry I've just been basically coming home, collapsing, and not doing much in the way of blogging.'

Let me say that I was incredibly happy to see the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) struck down, and that marriages can resume among gay couples in California. Plus the court dismissed some cases today, which were favourable to gays. I have two dear friends who have to been together for over fifteen years. I would love to see them get married. I recognise that Kentucky will no doubt be dragging its feet to join the ranks of states that will allow this; but I have faith it will happen.

Even now I seem very groggy and just out of it. I think I'll check my blood sugar, take my long-acting insulin, and head back to bed, even though it means getting nothing done tonight. Oh, and I'll run the dishwasher, which I loaded this morning before the Terminix guy came to do the apartment. I can at least say I got something done, then. :)

I like this op-ed piece

Courting Cowardice

As the arguments unfurled in Tuesday’s case on same-sex marriage, the Supreme Court justices sounded more and more cranky.

Things were moving too fast for them.

How could the nine, cloistered behind velvety rose curtains, marble pillars and archaic customs, possibly assess the potential effects of gay marriage? They’re not psychics, after all.

“Same-sex marriage is very new,” Justice Samuel Alito whinged, noting that “it may turn out to be a good thing; it may turn out not to be a good thing.” If the standard is that marriage always has to be “a good thing,” would heterosexuals pass?

“But you want us to step in and render a decision,” Alito continued, “based on an assessment of the effects of this institution, which is newer than cellphones or the Internet? I mean, we do not have the ability to see the future.”

With all due respect to the justices, please get your act together. With the cases before you yesterday and today, you have the opportunity to both make history and bring the US legal system into the 21st century regarding marriage equality. The arguments against it are ludicrous. The arguments for waiting sound very similar to those who weren't ready for biracial marriage, or desegregation, etc., etc. We rely on the federal government to protect and advocate for our civil rights. Please do so, with courage.

This just breaks my heart; I so hope they get to marry, and Proposition 8 be damned

Alzheimer's Patient Wants To Marry While He Still Recognizes His Partner

The two Californians have been together for 40 years. Surely that's a testimony to commitment.

(The sound quality on the video isn't very good, but it's important to hear it in their own words, so turn it up.)

:D

California same-sex marriages 'can resume' next week

Judge Walker found ban proponents have little chance to succeed on appeal, in part because the state of California has not indicated it will join the appeal and the ban proponents would have to argue they have their own standing to pursue one.

Additionally, he said the proponents failed to show they would be irreparably injured if same-sex marriages are allowed to take place pending appeal.

:) Couldn't have happened to a nicer girl

Carrie Prejean fires back after losing Miss California crown

Read the comments; many are great. Prejean insists her stance over Prop 8 got her fired, as opposed to violating her contract in several ways, including posing for Playboy and joining a reality show. Gee, wasn't getting free boob upgrades from the California pageant folks enough? Did she really think she'd be able to do all of this and keep her crown? The sad thing is that her self-promotion will probably get her on B-grade reality shows for years to come, and she won't just quietly go away.

How would you feel?

Okay, I found this on a loony ex-friend's webpage, but it's still very good.

Watching closely with interest

Top Lawyer Urges Voiding California Proposition 8

The Attorney General, Jerry Brown said: 'Proposition 8 must be invalidated because the amendment process cannot be used to extinguish fundamental constitutional rights without compelling justification.'

Another brief filed by opponents to same-sex marriage asks that the roughly 18,000 marriages performed already be invalidated.

No matter how much they try, you can't legislate love. When Barack Obama was born, there were some states that would not have allowed his parents to marry. My own state would not allow it until 1967, when several laws throughout the US were overturned by the Loving v. Virginia decision. Bans on interracial marriage (called anti-miscegenation laws, by the way) are wrong, and so is banning same-sex marriage. It's a matter of basic rights, period. I firmly believe that in my lifetime bans on same-sex marriage will fall throughout the United States and gay couples will be free to express their committed love in the same way heterosexual couples can.

This is a great, short, musical about discrimination, scripture, and people who like to rain on others' parades. Oh, and Jack Black as Jesus!

"Prop 8 - The Musical" starring Jack Black, John C. Reilly, Neil Patrick Harris, Margaret Cho, and many more:

See more Jack Black videos at Funny or Die