Midwest Starting Line

This Isn't Me.

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cameronbaum:

Symphony 40 in G minor | Mozart

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melomanes:

Broken Social Scene / Sweetest Kill

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highrelease:

Beach House | Master of None

My

the time flies, the time flies

like a porthole passing at night

over a carpet of tesselation

(the thinning cloud, the thinning

anvils and the damp night, the damp

lights a white ink smatter on blackened

cardboard, soot wash and the way it dies)

all the vans shooting down the highway

meandering little on the straight routes, the straight

roads where pictures of you swell up, swell up like

a motorcycle aura, the smell of worn jackets, worn jackets

from so many nights sleeping in the same clothes, the same

country I’m leaving through you, through you

I’m leaving this same country but still, but still I 

regret you not here, not here where you’ll now be, now

that you’ve hung up the tassels.

› This is happening: Someone actually tried to use this as a valid argument against gay marriage.

gretelsugarhoof:

If adultery is morally reprehensible, but the two consenting adults are legitimately in love does that now make it ok? Should we as a society now recognize their relationship in a different light? Should we say that the websites whose sole purpose are for married adults to meet and commit adultery…

Yeah, see, what he’s trying to do is compare gay marriage with the love of adulterers, under the assumption scripture disallows both, and then concludes since society doesn’t approve of adultery, it shouldn’t allow gay marriage.  I would call this a weak analogy, because adultery can happen with gay and lesbian families as well. Because of this, I think he’s begging the question still as to whether or not gay marriage should be law, though he concludes it’s shouldn’t.  He simply doesn’t have a good reason for his claim.

He then goes on to reassure us that he is not “gay-bashing,” but merely going by “the scripture.”  But I would say this is a red herring, and he’s deliberately distracting us from his faulty premises by appealing to the authority of scripture.  But since church and state are separated, and marriage is a state institution as it is a religious one, the argument from scripture has little application in defense of religious-ordinated policy.

The amendment in North Carolina passed because of bullshit arguments like these disguised as truthful reason.  

None of this is mention to his loaded question, which should dismiss his argument from adultery/scripture from the very beginning.  Equating homosexuality with choice is just as dubious as equating it with genetics—and both have been generously espoused from “the scripture”—and by assuming choice to commit adultery as morally reprehensible, they imply homosexuality and gay marriage as just as much so.

HELENA.
Your virtue is my privilege: for that
It is not night when I do see your face,
Therefore I think I am not in the night;
Nor doth this wood lack worlds of company,
For you in my respect are all the world:
Then how can it be said I am alone,
When all the world is here to look on me? Midsummer Night’s Dream 2.1.

Took a nap at seven last night

woke up at five this morning, been listening to Wu Tang and Murder Ballads and Writing.  Aaaah.

Started off on the Island, a.k. Shaolin

niggaz wilin’, gunshots thrown the phone dialin’.

I sat

on a porch swing

and you were speaking words of daring you were

teaching me how to be daring.