sarah palin is a fake feminist

It's been over ten days since Sarah Palin began running for the position of Vice President. At first I thought it was a cruel joke but now I see the joke's on me. America is rapidly becoming a country I never heard of. And if I hear one more woman telling me that Palin is a feminist, I might have to punch her out. 

Palin is a feminist the same way that I am a vegetarian, which given the fact that I eat some kind of meat probably every day, is a lie. The only thing Palin has in common with real feminists is that she believes in women's right to the vote. Otherwise, she is a throwback, a woman who wants to take away a woman's right to choose, a woman who believes in creationism (Eve sprung from Adam's rib?) and wants it taught in schools. She is also a hateful woman who thinks that being gay makes you unfit to serve in the military (or probably in public schools) and that if gays just prayed a little harder, they'd be straight Christian evangelists like her, too. 

Smarter writers than me have been going over this same material for days. I fear it's like preaching to the choir. No one person has so polarized females in the United States than Sarah Palin. I've always been amazed at how many women I know choose to believe in lies. I know women who embrace husbands who lie to them about their fidelity and their finances. I know women who choose to pull the wool over their eyes about their children and what those children are up to. I've always been amazed at the power of hypocrisy and now we have a living, breathing, completely fabricated liar who is poised perhaps to become vice president. Instead of focusing on the issues, so many Americans would rather discuss Palin's glasses. And by the way, they're fakes, too. The New York Observer reported that Palin had lasik surgery some time ago. Her glasses, which like her trailer trash backwoods hair do, are a carefully crafted part of her image, are for show only. They're plain glass. No prescription. 

granny is a toker

My mother in law who has advancing pancreatic cancer took her first puffs of marijuana the other day. Luckily she lives in California where they have medical marijuana laws and say what you will, the stuff works. She now has an appetite, is more enthusiastic about life, has regained a sense of humor and most importantly, has something to look forward to, even if it's just her next toke. 

The funniest thing she showed me when we arrived from New York to spend a week with her was the marijuana lollypops she got from a friend. My mother in law still doesn't have her legal paperwork in order to obtain the primo pot so she's 'making do' with whatever anybody gives her which seemed to me, quite a lot. She had a small handful of joints and a very crumbly pot brownie and a half dozen of these lollypops that it turns out old people like to suck on since very few of them have the dexterity at this point to roll a joint. The lollypops look exactly like regular lollypops which made me think how much fun it would be just to walk down the streets of my home town, sucking one. 

Go Granny, Go Granny, Go Granny Go. My mother in law is not exactly the little old lady from Pasadena, but right now, she's pretty close.