Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (May 19, 2005)
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
Star wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

For very possibly the first and last time ever, using AOL proved an advantage! You see, the teaser trailer for Revenge of the Sith is available today to AOL members, a day before it is released nationwide along with Pixar's The Incredibles. I have, of course, already watched it half a dozen times. WOO-FUCKING-HOO! Episode III is going to be just about the greatest thing to ever happen to anyone, nd after I see it, my life will be complete. Woot!

Vote For Kodos - The Right, the Left, and Gay Marriage
In Michigan and ten other states, Tuesday's election involved ballot measures to explicitly ban homosexual marriage. In some cases, as in Michigan, gay marriage already being illegal, these measures made gay marriage unconstitutional. In some cases, as in Michigan, these proposals banned not only gay marriage, but also gay civil unions and many other forms of gay partnership, up to and including property rights and insurance coverage. I support gay marriage. Not just civil unions, but marriage. (After all, a rose by any other name....) So, of course I voted against Michigan's Proposal 2. I am deeply saddened that a great many people who might otherwise have supported civil unions and other rights voted for Proposal 2 because they feared gay marriage would be imposed upon them by a judge or panel of judges, possibly from outside the state.

Within my little blog universe (the blogs I read, which are also read by a number of my friends and acquaintances), there is nigh-universal condemnation of Proposal 2's passage. Some of this condemnation has taken the form of blaming all on those dastardly conservatives! This is the comment more immediately responsible for this post.

In Michigan, Proposal 2 passed with 60% of the vote. Senator Kerry carried Michigan with 51%. Thus, even if all of the Bush voters voted for Prop 2 (and I am living proof that not all did), 12% of the electorate who voted for Kerry also supported Prop 2. This tells me that not only conservatives were frightened by the prospect of court-imposed gay marriage. Most of the readers of this blog and its "neighbors" my not like the fact, but a sizable majority of the American people oppose gay marriage. Most of these people are not homophobes, they are simply uncomfortable with a fairly radical, though entirely logical, change to the "institution of marriage."

Senator Kerry did not support gay marriage, though he was for civil unions. The same holds true for Senator Edwards. Moderate Republicans like Rudolph Guiliani, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and your humble narrator oppose constitutional amendments to ban gay marriage, but that does not mean that as soon as one of these moderates achieves higher office, gay marriage will become a reality. A LARGE NUMBER OF DEMOCRATIC VOTERS SUPPORTED MICHIGAN'S PROPOSAL 2. The American people, on both sides of the aisle, are scared of gay marriage, and it will take time and patience to convince them otherwise. Conservative Republicans are guilty of a great many things, but they cannot be solely blamed for Tuesday's emphatic rejection of anything and everything even remotely resembling gay marriage.

H-A-N
Have a vain night.