A Rant

WTF is up with everyone using the term "drop" to mean when something is released? E.g., sentence I just read on another blog: "We're never shy about touting an open-source, highly-extendable browser, so feel free to try it out when it drops." That has to be the most retarded slang I've ever seen. And I keep coming across it everywhere -- new albums don't get released anymore, they "drop." WTF is wrong with this world?!?

On a slightly more important note, I am pretty bummed about this Prop 8 nonsense in California. What a juxtaposition--we elect our first multiracial President on the same day that this piece of codified bigotry gets passed. It never ceases to amaze me how close-minded people can be. Who the fuck cares if your church defines marriage as between a man and a woman? Go hang out in your intolerant little church, then. But don't push your religious views onto the rest of society and the government. And don't tell me you or your church are accepting of gay people even though you voted for prop 8, as if merely acknowledging their existence is some great accomplishment of tolerance. If you were accepting of gay people, you certainly wouldn't be asking the government to deny them the same rights as you or me. And, no, same rights does not mean "the right for a man to marry a woman." It means the right for one person to marry whichever other damn person they wish. Consenting adult & consenting adult. This is not rocket science, guys. It's basic human decency. You want to tell someone else who they are allowed to marry? Seriously. Say that to my face.

OK, that topic gets me a bit riled up. I guess I'll save my poker thoughts for later.