Mike Huckabee's interview on the Daily Show (~ 6 1/2 minutes long)
In all fairness, I have to say that he at least attempts to explain his argument instead of just saying "It's wrong, that's it", or just not talk about it at all. I think Jon Stewart brings up some good points too. The part I don't like is that he brings up that a majority of voters voted in 30 states to uphold "traditional marriage" - which to me really means it's ok to discriminate as long as a majority of voters agree, which is obviously bad.
It's also been brought up many times that this is "re-defining" marriage - and while, strictly speaking it is, we've been re-defining marriage since the beginning of time, including defining it as both a legal and a religious institution.
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Newsweek article on marriage
Big thanks for friend Shelley for posting this on her blog. This is one of the most comprehensive articles on marriage I've ever read.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/172653/page/1
http://www.newsweek.com/id/172653/page/1
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Fire and Ice
"Oh the weather outside is frightful" is probably appropriate the past couple of days - really this is typical Minnesota, but usually January not December. We had two pretty good bunches of snow, combined with our first sub-zero night last night. Really though the weather has been pretty good - the ice/freezing rain they promised last night didn't happen, and besides being cold getting around is ok.
This has been an action-packed week. Friday night fortunately was some down time after a very busy week of work and activities. We stayed home and had Erin's wonderful chicken soup, hot tea, and played games and watched some shows we have fallen behind on (Ugly Betty is just so funny these days!)
Saturday was dedicated to the Blue Moon gig my band Fuego had going on that night. Around 2:00 Martial showed up and we started loading everything - an interesting process in 10-degree snowy windy weather but we got it all in and headed over to the Blue Moon. One of the Diego Sanchez dance lessons was going on as we were setting up, which was fun to watch - he's REALLY good, both as a dancer as an instructor. Finally by 6:00 we had everything set up and sound checked and were out of there.
The big moment finally arrived as we got back at 8:00 and after another Diego dance lesson group we kicked off the evening at 8:30. I know I'm biased, but we really sounded good - it's so much fun to play for a lively crowd with great musicians - the energy just keeps feeding back and forth and by the end of the first set we were rockin' (or "salsa-in'" to be more correct I guess). We rocked the house in the second set - we have one heavy jazz/blues song we have been throwing in adding our own flavor to it, and the crowd just ate it up. And after the second break, a song from the CD was playing and we just spontaneously started playing with it, and kept the groove going for another 4 minutes or so - everyone ate that one up too. We finished off with what I think is probably our best song now and it was just fun. Teardown, off to my house at 12:30am to unload, and by 1:00 I was too wired to go to bed :) Complete set of pictures below.
I did manage to get a little sleep before waking up and meeting friend Bill for coffee and a much-needed big breakfast. I'm sure at some point here I'll crash and need a nap...for now I'm just enjoying the great feeling of yesterday and watching the snow slowly come down and the kitties chase each other around.
This has been an action-packed week. Friday night fortunately was some down time after a very busy week of work and activities. We stayed home and had Erin's wonderful chicken soup, hot tea, and played games and watched some shows we have fallen behind on (Ugly Betty is just so funny these days!)
Saturday was dedicated to the Blue Moon gig my band Fuego had going on that night. Around 2:00 Martial showed up and we started loading everything - an interesting process in 10-degree snowy windy weather but we got it all in and headed over to the Blue Moon. One of the Diego Sanchez dance lessons was going on as we were setting up, which was fun to watch - he's REALLY good, both as a dancer as an instructor. Finally by 6:00 we had everything set up and sound checked and were out of there.
The big moment finally arrived as we got back at 8:00 and after another Diego dance lesson group we kicked off the evening at 8:30. I know I'm biased, but we really sounded good - it's so much fun to play for a lively crowd with great musicians - the energy just keeps feeding back and forth and by the end of the first set we were rockin' (or "salsa-in'" to be more correct I guess). We rocked the house in the second set - we have one heavy jazz/blues song we have been throwing in adding our own flavor to it, and the crowd just ate it up. And after the second break, a song from the CD was playing and we just spontaneously started playing with it, and kept the groove going for another 4 minutes or so - everyone ate that one up too. We finished off with what I think is probably our best song now and it was just fun. Teardown, off to my house at 12:30am to unload, and by 1:00 I was too wired to go to bed :) Complete set of pictures below.
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| Blue Moon gig December 2008 |
I did manage to get a little sleep before waking up and meeting friend Bill for coffee and a much-needed big breakfast. I'm sure at some point here I'll crash and need a nap...for now I'm just enjoying the great feeling of yesterday and watching the snow slowly come down and the kitties chase each other around.
Friday, December 5, 2008
En Fuego
One last shameless self-promotion for my latin/salsa band "Fuego" which will be playing this Saturday:
Where: Blue Moon Ballroom
When: Saturday, December 6th, 8:30pm-11:30pm
What: "Let's Salsa", with guest Diego Sanchez, Champion Salsa Dancer, sponsored by the Rochester Salsa Community
Admission is $10 at the door, cash bar and refreshments also available. $15 if you come at 7:30pm for the dance lesson given by Diego. Besides this being a huge event for the Salsa Community, this is the best my band has sounded in a long time! We have a great show with a full slate of songs planned.
Where: Blue Moon Ballroom
When: Saturday, December 6th, 8:30pm-11:30pm
What: "Let's Salsa", with guest Diego Sanchez, Champion Salsa Dancer, sponsored by the Rochester Salsa Community
Admission is $10 at the door, cash bar and refreshments also available. $15 if you come at 7:30pm for the dance lesson given by Diego. Besides this being a huge event for the Salsa Community, this is the best my band has sounded in a long time! We have a great show with a full slate of songs planned.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
TiVo Guilt
This article from friend Shelley's blog was so good I had to repost it:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/TV/12/02/tivo.guilt/index.html
I SO have TiVo guilt, and an associated phenomenon, DVD backlog guilt. By the time you have whole seasons of things available (either on DVD or because you put off watching them on TiVo) it seems like a daunting task to start into them.
There is yet another spin-off phenomenon I've experienced because of the DVR technology era - TiVo Partner guilt. When I got my first TiVo, the "guilt" was just making sure I didn't delete anything that my old roomate hadn't already had the chance to see too (if it's something he wanted to watch) - yet not running out of space. We had ideas on how there should be ways for each person to mark that they've watched something - and then automatically delete it when everyone has watched it (I'm such a geek I know). NOW, it's a little more complicated - for shows that boyfriend and I watch together, it's the "I shouldn't watch this because I should wait until we watch it together" guilt - given how little our schedules actually line up to do this, I usually end up watching stuff anyway and then feel bad or watch it again because Erin hasn't watched it yet.
Hmmm, maybe we all obsess a little too much about TV....
http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/TV/12/02/tivo.guilt/index.html
I SO have TiVo guilt, and an associated phenomenon, DVD backlog guilt. By the time you have whole seasons of things available (either on DVD or because you put off watching them on TiVo) it seems like a daunting task to start into them.
There is yet another spin-off phenomenon I've experienced because of the DVR technology era - TiVo Partner guilt. When I got my first TiVo, the "guilt" was just making sure I didn't delete anything that my old roomate hadn't already had the chance to see too (if it's something he wanted to watch) - yet not running out of space. We had ideas on how there should be ways for each person to mark that they've watched something - and then automatically delete it when everyone has watched it (I'm such a geek I know). NOW, it's a little more complicated - for shows that boyfriend and I watch together, it's the "I shouldn't watch this because I should wait until we watch it together" guilt - given how little our schedules actually line up to do this, I usually end up watching stuff anyway and then feel bad or watch it again because Erin hasn't watched it yet.
Hmmm, maybe we all obsess a little too much about TV....
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