Snow!
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Squeeeeeeee.
In other news, it snowed today. I haven’t seen honest-to-god snow falling from the sky in years. I forgot how much I miss it. Of course, none of it stuck to the ground, it just melted away in seconds, but the fine meteorologists of my local news stations promise that it should stick on Wednesday night, Thursday of this week. I’m dreamin’ of a white Halloween.
I spent most of this weekend in the fetal position. I won’t describe the stomache flu in polite company, but if I had a puppy and his name was Chuck, I would have been teaching him the command “Up-chuck!” all weekend. The worst part was when I got called as a last minute replacement speaker at the media relations seminar in the natinal PFLAG conference when the original speaker had to cancel because of a family funeral. Sick or not, I just can’t say no to PFLAG moms. I blame my little brothers for this. (the sickness, not the inability to disappoint PFLAG moms)
Well, I’m back at work and we’re “on deadline” which means I have to focus what energy I have on the paper. Tonight I’m going to an Ivy Moon Ritual with a pagan group connected to my U.U. church, I’m hoping that rejuvenates me a bit. Lots of wacky pagan fun happening next weekend, of course, but I’m torn. Do I focus on the spiritual side of the holiday, or do I give in to the commercialism and spend the weekend flitting between Halloween parties at bars?
Not to get into another discussion of hate crimes, but this morning, the Georgia Supreme Court struck down their state’s hate crime laws. Not because they violated free speech, or the 14th amendment, but because… they were too vague by not listing which categories might be victims of hate crimes laws. The Associated Press is reporting that Georgia is the only state that has hate crime laws which don’t specifically spell out things like “color, national origin, sexual orientation, etc.” but the AP is wrong, Utah’s laws also refuse to list which types of groups might be victims of hate crimes. (Utah’s hate crimes laws can only be called “hate crimes laws” because that’s what they titled the section of code, they have nothing in common with hate crime laws anywhere else in the United States.) Interesting, though, that the GA Supreme Court found the hate crime laws to be unconstitutional because they were “unconstitutionally vague”… they gave no credence to the challenges made on the grounds of 14th amendment violations or free speech limitations.
