I especially like that picture from 1:35-1:41.
Pretty fuckin hawt.
We had a Ball tonight for orchestra, and it was awesome, there was a lesbian couple there :P Pretty sexy.
This chick I've known for years, and then a chick from my English class. If she's in English, I'm in English, and we assume Jun, CAG, is gay, then that's 3 gay people in a class of 30 (or bi, I guess), I have a feeling that's high.
Or maybe I dunno.
Anyway, tonight, I wanted to talk about Constitutional Idolatry, which is something that I find rather odd.
A lot of Republicans get pretty asstight about the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, which I find rather odd.
Stephen Colbert did a segment on a proposed law that would require all new laws to have a strict, cited, Constitutional basis.
Then they proposed a new law, after that, which required a specific, cited, basis in the fucking Magna Carta, such as that section that says if a man dies owing a Jew money, then his wife doesn't have to pay back that Jew, right?
I find it rather odd, in reality, that people are so nostalgic about old documents. Yes, I think, as in setting up a country, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution do a pretty fucking good job, especially for their time (too good of a job, I guess, for most of the men who wrote it, owning slaves, while writing down "All Men are Created Equal"...)
And one of the best things about it is that it was, intentionally, I think, written vaguely. Who knows what "cruel and unusual punishment" is? Or "the right to keep and bear arms"? How many arms, and how powerful?
See, when people get into fights about The Constitution says we can bear arms! So that means you can't take away my 50-round clip for my automatic assault rifle, how the fuck am I going to live with only a 30-round clip?!", it's like the Constitution only says you get to keep and bear arms, it doesn't say how many.
And even if the Constitution did say Everyone can have guns and no regulations about guns can be made, cause guns R fucking awsum lawl, then I would say we should leave it.
Because, as good as the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence were in their time, they were written in a different time, and great as they were (well, smart, great is debate able), the Founding Fathers couldn't necessarily have predicted every issue the US would face, so how would we use the Constitution to regulate the Internet? "And, if at any time in the future, say about 200 years, some smartass decides to create a network of electric-y things, we'll regulate it thus:..."
So, the Constitution was done, I think, incredibly well, but just because it's old doesn't mean it's good, it's this odd nostalgia people have for tradition.
That's like the thing with oh we can't break with TRADITION, no, it's always been one man, one woman.
It's like, maybe, I mean, it hasn't "always" been one man, one woman, but whatever, but just because ideas have been held for a long time doesn't necessarily make them good ideas, just because society hasn't been blown apart yet.
Like the idea that the sun circled around the Earth was held for a long time, a tradition, you might say, and society, well, you couldn't say it was doing well, but it hadn't exploded, but that doesn't mean things couldn't be made better by a revision to the tradition.
And it was, by some noble people.
But sometimes, just because ideas have been held for a long time, doesn't make them good ideas, many long-standing traditions are completely false, and I don't understand why people seem to think that if something was written a long time ago, of if that idea has been held a long time, it's immediately good.
Conservatives seem to be the people who say We've done things like this for a long time, and we're not dead yet, so it must stay that way, and a liberal seems like someone who'd say Yes, society isn't dead yet, but perhaps it could be made better by attempting change. Maybe we can experiment a little, and figure it out, but if we never change we'll never find out if we're wrong.
Like George Bush senior, I like that he tried out tax cuts, assured that they'd pay for themselves, but when they didn't, he realized the experiment had gone wrong, and he raised taxes. Lost an election for it, too.
So yeah, that's a penny for my thoughts tonight.