It may be great for him as a person to be supportive of his son; however, unless that directly impacts how he votes from this point onward I feel no obligation to extend him professional respect.
Willow: It feels like we're going around in circles. Xander: Our circles are going around in circles. We got dizzy circles here.
'Sleeper'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 15, 2013 8:55:05 am PDT #14884 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Lee - Mar 15, 2013 8:55:21 am PDT #14885 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Dear co-workers, if you can't figure out what a document refers to because you think the information on it is incomplete, why do you think sending me just one piece of information from the whole document will be enough to let me figure it out?
tommyrot - Mar 15, 2013 8:55:40 am PDT #14886 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
This kind of reminds me of people who lose their faith in God because a loved one dies unexpectedly. People's loved ones die unexpectedly all the time, so it seems weird to me when it only affects people's faith when it happens to them.
Consuela - Mar 15, 2013 8:57:52 am PDT #14887 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Steph, you're totally correct that he should be supporting his son. But you know, that's like, the baseline. That should be expected. I shouldn't have to give the guy a cookie for supporting his son. He's his son, after all.
Supporting your gay son should not be worthy of comment, you know?
In other news, I read this amazing story about the artifacts that people leave at the Wall in DC: [link]
Jesse - Mar 15, 2013 9:05:00 am PDT #14888 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Steph L. - Mar 15, 2013 9:07:13 am PDT #14889 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Steph, you're totally correct that he should be supporting his son. But you know, that's like, the baseline. That should be expected. I shouldn't have to give the guy a cookie for supporting his son. He's his son, after all.
Yeah, I don't think he deserves a cookie, because it IS the baseline. But he was shitty before, and changed his mind, so that makes me glad. I feel like I should be wanting to wave a pitchfork at him.
Gah. This makes me sound like I think he's an awesome dude and fantastic politician, when that's not what I mean. I just mean, when someone was shitty before and genuinely changes their mind, I think that's a great thing.
Okay, I'm going to stop posting about this, because it sounds like I'm all Yay Homophobe Woo!, when I'm not.
Jesse - Mar 15, 2013 9:08:20 am PDT #14890 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Not at all, Steph, you're right.
Jessica - Mar 15, 2013 9:09:12 am PDT #14891 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
My feeling is this is great news for his next Thanksgiving, but he wasn't elected to Congress to represent the interests of his immediate family. Show me the voting record.
Scrappy - Mar 15, 2013 9:09:35 am PDT #14892 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I'm with you, Teppy. I am glad he changed his mind and is public about it, because that's a plus, but the fact he only changed because it's his son is problematic. So I'm 100% glad/disapproving.
Jessica - Mar 15, 2013 9:11:24 am PDT #14893 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset