I meant to post last night letting you know that today is a travel day. I'm sitting right now in a little coffee shop in Manhattan Beach, Los Angeles, two blocks from the ocean, and it's 70 degrees (that's 20 or so Celsius, right?), and it's snowing in Washington, so life is pretty fine.
This was my first experience with the new TSA scanners. What's the big whoop? I had to take my watch off. That was the only noticeable difference. As I say, life is fine.
I see now that it seems "don't ask, don't tell" repeal may well become law. The last-ditch effort of the forces of reaction, reports TPM, is to attack gay groups for having stolen the symbolism of the rainbow:
"Dr Jennifer Roback Morse is the founder and president of the Ruth Institute, which describes itself as 'a project of the National Organisation for Marriage'. On its site, the group describes its mission statement as "to promote life-long married love to college students by creating an intellectual and social climate favourable to marriage."
Morse continued:
"We can't simply let that go by. Families put rainbows in their children's nurseries. Little Christian preschools will have rainbows … Noah's Ark and all the animals … Those are great Christian symbols, great Jewish symbols."
She also described how she wore a rainbow scarf to the Prop 8 hearings to show that anti-gay marriage activists still own the symbol. I can see that that would be especially galling, since real-life rainbows are made by the Big Guy himself. Ah well.
Bone up for the quiz tomorrow. Morse might even like it, as it will contain certain religious elements.
