Wel, well, well, the big story in today's newspaper is all about Smirkboy saying he is "very troubled" about what he's seeing in San Francisco and, more ominously, he is "watching." Take your pick, but in reading that, doesn't Bush come off either as a prudish school-marm threatening her impudent children or the evil eye of Sauron?

We here in San Francisco are so very worried. And so very concerned that our actions make the President "troubled." Isn't that why we all live here?

Now with Bush weighing in on certainly the most troubling issue in the land, we now have what appears to be a little smack-down between our Commander in Thief and our Mayor. I think I speak for everyone when I say Go Go Gavin.

Even crazier, if you listen to all the Wing-Nuts out there (the nice, politically correct term for all the foaming-mouth Right Wing dingbats) they all think that for this little act of Civil Disobedience, Gavin should be led off in chains and arrested. His Wing-Nut Eminence himself, Bill O'Reilly, said so on his "I'm Right and You're Not" show (err, I meant "The No-Spin Zone") last night. To which I say this: what are you freaking nuts? Eh, nevermind.

Nothing like a Mayor being thrown into jail for allowing a bunch of loving couples to get married to get the whole martyr thing going. Besides the fact that it'll ensure that Gavin will never have to even think about raising money for his re-election due to the fact he'll be considered a God Who Walks Amongst Us here the inevitable protests will make the anti-war protest from last year look like a "night of dialogue" held in your average Mission coffee shop. Hell, even I'd probably man the barriers for that one.

The most frustrating thing about the whole debate, well one of the one's and besides the fact we're even having the debate at all, is all the squawking of "activist judges" and "what about the majority view?" from pundits, politicians, and lawyers, all of whom should know better. The idea, of course, being how dare a bunch of judges decide something that goes against the majority views of the people and the will of the politicians. Now, it's been awhile since I took any sort of Civics class, but I'm pretty sure that the idea of the American judicial system is that it's supposed to do things like that. Isn't that what the whole "checks and balances" thing is about? And isn't that one of the main pillars of this Democracy? And why am I the only one who seems to know this while watching TV? Shouldn't a lawyer or politician know his basic pillars of American Democracy?

As for the whole issue of what the majority opinion is and how the majority opinion should be rule throughout the land, again, isn't that one of the tenets of our country that the will of the majority is, in fact, not the rule of the land? And that it's supposed to be super-ceded by minority rights? Don't we have a long history of ruling in favor of the minority (cough * the 2000 election* cough)? Wasn't that one of the reasons why this country was founded, because most of us are people who got kicked out our respective homelands for being in a minority? I know, for instance, that my great-grandparents had to leave Russia because the will of the Russian people towards the Jews involved a lot of raping and pillaging.

And finally, I bring up this point on the whole debate. Unfortunately, I'm not clever enough to think of this myself and it's actually sort of a paraphrase of some message on a message board I read somewhere, but it's still pretty good. And that's this- that the Republicans have a long, long history of shitting on some minority to scare uptight white folks, then have to spend years afterwards telling everyone that they're not really intolerant, they just play one on TV. Is there anyone who doesn't doubt that in another twenty years or so, some "Compassionate Conservative" President is going to have to give speech after speech in praise of some Gay Civil Rights leader (Harvey Milk? Matthew Shepard? Rosie O'Donnell) or even Gavin himself to try and let everyone know that they're really sorry for all the Gay Bashing and that they'll never ever do something like that and, gosh, we Republicans really are nice people, we swear.