dagblog - Comments for "Kill/Build, the Metaphor - Clouds 'R Us"

Well, at some point we define

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:52:00 +0000

Well, at some point we define benefits and contracts - so it is someone's business. If I have 4 wives Muslim style, will my job-provided insurance cover all 5 of us plus offspring plus various grandmothers/grandpas?

But in terms of "war on marriage", well, everything I know I learned from "Love American Style", being a child of the 60s/70s.

I'm not sure how serious

Verified Atheist — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 23:21:59 +0000

In reply to Mexican polygamy colonies -

I'm not sure how serious you're being on the polygamy issue, but if you are being serious (and I think you are), then I'm in agreement. As long as we're not talking about child brides being pressured into it, what happens between a man and a woman and a woman (or a woman and a man and a man) is not the government's business.

Mexican polygamy colonies -

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:46:31 +0000

In reply to Well, this may be the Year of

Mexican polygamy colonies - sounds almost like a medical condition. Of course someone could have noticed that Romney's grandparents weren't polygamists - that it had been banned by then - but that would be tuff worʞ.

Yes, its' a vewwy sexually silly election cycle. With no sense of irony, Newt proclaims "marriage between a man and a woman is under attack". Which also strikes me odd - have you heard anyone suggesting a law against a man and a woman getting married? Has anyone been shamed for tying the knot? Or is this the War Against Christmas variety, where if you don't blurt out "Jesus Jesus Jesus" continuously during ~~holiday~~ Christmas season like some fevered monk catching up after a day off, you're waging war against the hammered dude himself.

Personally, I'm attracted to the idea - I've started calling "marriage" a "work program for women", and I thank the Republicans for giving me the inspiration - I'm sure this will catch on like "domestic engineer". "Arbeit Macht Fries", y'all? And welfare is now "sub-minimum wage pay for our offspring-managing undersociety" - everyone's a winner, the GOP gets a blow against minimum wage, mothers get their slaving-over-a-hot-stove stipend, and Junior gets a degree of legitimacy.

And perhaps we can stop looking at polygamy as a negative in any case - think of it in context of an efficient team-building job training exercise - would we complain that there are too many women in the workplace? So why at home?

I can't wait to see the party platforms this year. Who needs Stephen Colbert when the scripts keep writing themselves?