Goodbye to Vidal Sassoon, Decency
Man, you know it’s a rough day when Vidal Sassoon dies and the biggest headline is the President of the United States presenting a verbal bitch-slap to the asshats in North Carolina who’ve just decided to update their state Constitution in regards to marriage again. Last time they amended it, it was to ban interracial marriage. I’m seeing a trend.
But still. Vidal Sassoon. Even I’ve had that stuff in my hair. An icon, he was huge, bigger than life, I thought his commercials were great, I thought he died years ago. And now, poor guy, no one will remember the date of his passing. I hope the voters of North Carolina are proud. North Carolina: where you can marry your cousin, just not your gay cousin.
And while I’m at it, thank you, Mr. President. Some people are already questioning the wisdom of such a statement in light of the upcoming elections. You don’t lead by staying quiet. You lead by example.
Mind you, that doesn’t mean I want to see you smooching Joe Biden. Not that kind of example. No one wants to see that. I think Internet Rule 34 was suspended on that one. But I digress.
Lead on, Mr. President. Stick to your guns; we’ll have your back. And good luck.
Didn’t mr.president come out in favor of letting states handle the whole gay marriage affair? On the heels of the NC assshattery, I don’t see that as the shining endorsement so many seem to think he gave.
“I’m ok with it, but if you want to keep on discriminating, go right ahead.”
Ashamed, I understand – it wasn’t a shining endoresment, was it? I think of it in the context of “he’s the first sitting president to say it in public” and that’s a pretty big step right there. Then there’s the fact that he had the guts to say it in public in an election year, and that’s a smaller step but a step nonetheless – he made a point to say something important regardless of its effect on the outcome of the upcoming election.
I’m in Virginia, and I’m not sure this state is going to do much better than yours in the coming years. We can only hope to staunch the crazy. My wife says it more elequently than I, if you’re interested: http://www.inappropriategirl.com/