No Tickets!

Be the second-fastest person on the highway.

My bike doesn't fit in my head.

You can't pretend to go for a bike-ride in your head because your bicycle does not fit in your head. It's simple, really.

I haven't been bothered to write here recently. Mostly because my life here is so void of stimuli (not true at all), that I find I don't think of anything. That being said, I do have lots of fresh and exciting stimuli but I do not thing about them too much. I don't mind - I'm on holiday. There are a few things I've been thinking about those, as strange as that seems.

I've recently been watching youtube clips regard gay marriage and other clips that are mostly very painful accidents in skateboarding and gymnastics. The two are quite fun to watch even when they go wrong. Gay marriage is more exciting though, I find. Groups like the National Organization for Marriage perpetuating, in a way, the problem they're trying to solve. One of their advertisements implies that the notion of gay marriage will confuse young children so much that they won't understand what a marriage is. I started thinking. If children grew up in a world, or in this case a country, in which gay marriage was legal - it wouldn't be anything big, they would have an understanding of marriage that is independent of gender. The only people that seem to be confused are the people working for NOM that don't seem understand how the world is moving way faster than they are. I also think that their argument about legalizing gay marriage means changing the meaning of marriage for all of us is pretty fraudulent as well. If you're not confident enough that your heterosexual marriage is strong to such an extent that letting Jeff and Aaron get married threatens the sanctity of your marriage, get counseling, don't take it out on Jeff and Aaron. So glad I'm Canadian. Canada is young and hip, got his ear pierced and likes loud music.

I replied to the video, inevitably. With this bit of absolute poetry:

I think that the whole evolution thing really did render the adam and eve story old fashioned, gay marriage cannot take the credit for that one. Also, why would young children have so many preconceptions about marriage being only between a man and a woman if gay marriage was legal? With this in consideration, any confusion in the children's understand of gay marriage would have to be an issue with these children's teacher being unable teach properly. No?

I don't care if anyone on youtube reads it, though I know they did... it got two thumbs up =) What if the kids in the ad grow up and end up being gay? Would that be a kick in the pants for NOM? What's even better is that by the time the kids grow up, gay marriage will DEFINITELY be recognized, supported and not even an issue. Poor kids.

It's stuff like this that I like to write. My own opinions about things I think and care about. Unless it's for an interesting class or a good professor, most essay assignments can take a hike will I go for a mental wander. Oh well...