Blind Prophecy

If you, like me, need an antidote to the parade of crusty old white men who profess to be heterosexual getting super excited about the possibility of deciding what happens to your daughter’s womb, that is the Republican National Convention, I have just the thing for you.

The trailer for Milk was released today. Please ignore the commercial for another crappy film at the start of this embed, it’s the only embeddable copy I could find. But you can download the trailer for free through iTunes.

To be honest, this trailer caused the first pangs of homesickness for San Francisco. If I could pack up and go home right now, I would. But I can’t, and I have other things to focus on.

The staffing agency I’m working with asked me to revise my resume today. Most people need help making their resume impressive. Mine was too intimidating and I was asked to remove the words “manager” and “editor” entirely. In other words, cut all but two of my actual job titles going back to college. Anyway, we’ll see if the new and humble resume scores more points in the job hunt.

I’m bracing myself for tonight’s convention coverage. I’ve got news for the McCain-Palin campaign, the scrutiny of Palin and the vetting process is not “nonsense” and it won’t go away just because you stamp your foot and act forcefully. After all the bullshit nonsense about Rev. Wright, I can’t wait for the mainstream media to pick apart the Wasilla Bible Church and Pastor Larry Kroon. For instance, Palin was in the audience when they had David Brickner of Jews for Jesus as a special guest. Brickner has described terrorist attacks on Israelis as God’s “judgment of unbelief” of Jews who haven’t embraced Christianity. Palin’s church apparently supports ex-gay reparative therapy. Or we can back up a couple years to Palin’s former long-term pastor, Ed Kalnins of the Wasilla Assembly of God, who

preached that critics of President Bush will be banished to hell; questioned whether people who voted for Sen. John Kerry in 2004 would be accepted to heaven; charged that the 9/11 terrorist attacks and war in Iraq were part of a war “contending for your faith;” and said that Jesus “operated from that position of war mode.”

Family and children may be “off limits” but surely pastors and religious affiliations are not, right? I mean, the Republicans couldn’t possible imply that questioning a candidate’s fitness to lead and policy positions might be dangerously affected by extremist and offensive religious leaders, right?

Will someone please ask Joe Lieberman, once praised for the historic moment as the first Jewish person selected as vice presidential nominee on a major party ticket, how he feels about endorsing a woman who was reverently listening to David Brickner less than three weeks ago?

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