palin's daughter

palin has a 17 year old daughter, who, as it turns out, is 5 months pregnant. i thought these right wingers were all about abstaining from sex. i also thought they were opposed to teen pregnancy, and even sex before marriage. now that this has come out, these same fuckheads are stressing that this is a "family matter" and that "personal issues" have no place in politics. yeah, when it's the daughter of your vp candidate, then all of a sudden, this stuff has no place in politics. in fact, this kind of shit is all the right wing is about when it comes to politics. they keep warning us of the dangers of teen pregnancy and premarital sex, but the thing is, they have the poor and the non white in mind when they rant about these issues. now that it hits close to home, it becomes a family matter.

hey, by the way, how do you think people would have reacted if obama had a pregnant teenage daughter? i think the internet would have been buzzing with racist garbage, and the right wing talk shows would been filled with thinly veiled attacks against "liberals" and their loose sexual values. yeah, the racism would have been flowing. but, since it's palin's daughter, we should all just ignore it. hey man, cool, but if we are gonna do that, then can we stop scapegoating all the young mothers in our inner cities who don't have the benefit of a rich family to help them support their children? can we say that their teenage pregnancies are also "personal matters" that don't call for racist diatribes from angry right wingers out to degrade a generation of poor, black youth?

by the way, teenage pregnancies are down in the black community and up in the white community. i'm sure as this trend continues, the issue of teen pregnancy will more and more be viewed as a "personal, family matter." yeah, if we can't shit on the blacks in this country, we move on to something else.

i, for one, am tired of sex in politics. it is a private, personal matter. to the extent that government is involved in it, they should be educating people about it, making condoms and birth control available, and also helping to combat homophobia. but, enough is enough about who is fucking who, and who is pregnant, and this guy was looking for gay sex in a public toilet, and this guy had sex in a hotel. none of it should reach our ears, not while one person starves, or one child is bombed, or one man is in jail, or one woman is raped.

so yeah, it's a private matter, but it should always be a private matter, no matter who does it, whether they are a young black girl, a political opponent, or the daughter of a vice presidential candidate. so, shut the fuck up about family values if you insist on privacy. everyone is entitled to privacy if anyone is.

back to work today. it's as meaningless as ever. same mediocre environment, same watching the clock, same half assed approach from yours truly. it's the getting up in the morning that bugs me the most. the gig itself is ok, it's just the having to do it. man, if i could only make my own hours. "yeah, i can give you 2 hours today." it's the consistency of it, the routine that sucks. cause sometimes you just want to stay in bed, or take a long walk. man, you don't want to live by the clock, and living by the clock is the way of work.

well, at least i'm not a prison guard.