First off, my apologies for the title.

So, Seattle and greater King County voted down a transit package that would have greatly expanded the light rail, currently under construction. First they killed the monorail (after approving it FOUR times) and now rail. We are stuck with a horrid bus system and a commuter train that is useless. Seattle has so many wonderful things going for it. Why is such a progressive city so ignorant about transit?

I understand that this transit package was flawed with the addition of the roads package. However, we desperately need a transit system that works and this city is notorious for taking its time on important issues. The current light rail project, once complete, will have taken more than a decade for only 17 miles of light rail. Basically, we have a rail system that takes you to two different malls. Thanks Seattle!

I had to endure a three hour meeting today that was painfully dry. To make the experience even more unbearable, I was forced to look at a bedazzled, 80’s acid-washed jean jacket. It doesn’t stop there. The woman wearing it was doing needlepoint during the entire meeting!

It was almost as hellish as my root canal, which included a TV in the ceiling. The program on during my procedure was the O’Reilly Factor on Fox.

It is not illegal to kill a pet in the state of Washington if it is done humanely. This is ridiculous. I can understand if an animal is suffering and your vet euthanizes them, but an owner can, presumably, take their pets into the woods and shoot them? This is outrageous! Who determines if the manor of death is humane? So, if a pet owner is tired of their pet and they decide to “humanely” kill them, this is okay? Shouldn’t there be a VERY good reason to allow for this? We have a responsibility to treat our pets with love and respect, not dispensable! This really is disturbing.

In anti-gay United Arab Emirates, this is how a male rape victim is treated.Yet, our country sends billions of dollars in foreign investments, not to mention that we tried to sell them our ports. Why not invest our money in developing countries who don’t treat glbt people so egregiously!?

Wow… there is a lot of gay news this week.

So, there is no evidence that Principal Schum is anti-glbt, so I will not lump him with the Republican idiots getting caught in gay sex scandals. But, he is the head of a Catholic school in the south… so I will go out on a limb and make the assumption that he isn’t overly glbt friendly.

This is just getting to be weird.

If I were a transgendered person, I would be pissed. Fundamentalist idiots always give the rest of us glbt folks a bad rap. The hypocrisy of their double lives (openly conservative and anti-glbt, closeted kinkster) pisses me off. The have the benefit of dictating our lives legally (as in the politicians) or administratively (as in the principal), yet get to have the gay/transgendered perks as well.