November 17, 2008
Week Around the Ists
Photo by Leanne Maxwell, SFist
- SFist saw Prop 8 protests continue since election day, including a disturbing anti-LDS one involving a home emblazoned with a "F--- Mormons" banner.
- Phillyist and its readers debated the merits of keeping Eagles coach Andy Reid around.
- Torontoist took a look at the newly-renovated Art Gallery of Ontario, designed by hometown hero Frank Gehry.
- Chicagoist hit up the Prop 8 Protest Rally, looked back at a previous Illinois-centric Presidential inauguration as they prepare to see Obama sworn in, and learned lots of locals are stocking up on guns so the socialist terrorists won't win.
- Londonist bared (almost) all to check out a record-breaking gathering of Londoners wearing little more than their best undies and a smile.
- Shanghaiist marveled at a Chinese baby born with sixteen toes.
- Gothamist read that the Iraq War ended and that a national health insurance act passed--in the New York Times parody that was printed and distributed to New Yorkers (it's also online).
- Austinist was happy to report that the Harry Ransom Center at UT Austin acquired yet another set of priceless literary artifacts -- this time being materials belonging to modernist poet Ezra Pound.
- Seattlest, always appreciative of an articulate public speaker, delighted in seeing local boy Dan Savage (debating Prop 8) and visiting eminence John Updike (critiquing modern art) make the front page.
- Bostonist learned about how scientists are making beer healthy and witnessed a scary subway crash.
- DCist daydreamed about outfitting former D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams with a superhero costume after he was spotted running after and stopping a thief on K Street.
- LAist witnessed many Prop 8 protests including the most controversial at a restaurant. As the protests continued and after the nation's largest earthquake drill, multiple wildfires sparked from Santa Barbara to the Los Angeles to Orange County.
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The Harry Ransom Center at UT Austin has a Gutenberg Bible, the world's first photograph, and an impressive collection of the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs. There are also lots of those cool little patent models once required by the USPTO.
Back in the last century, I often enjoyed HRC's impressive exhibitions of mediocre paintings by young artists who later achieved mastery and fame, amassed by author James Mitchener. These may have been moved to another museum (sorry).
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The story about Chicago citizens and guns was interesting.
It always amuses me to read comments like this:
"I hope Obama takes away all their stupid guns and confirms their very worst fears. The world needs fewer heavily-armed morons."
Yeah, because everyone that owns a gun is a right-wing, redneck, "moron" and "heavily armed."
Maybe it's because I grew up in a small town, or because I actually like the Constitution (not just parts of it), but idiots who make comments like the one quoted is why I'll never feel at home in this city. (I know he lives in Chicago, but I've heard the same thing said countless times in DC)
Imagine Dubya somehow having the power to revoke a woman's right to vote. We would be outraged, and rightfully so. But as we all know, he can't because the 19th Amendment plainly states women have that right. But the guy in Chicago thinks it's somehow okay for Obama to revoke the Second Amendment, despite the 200+ year right that's clearly stated in the Constitution. - hypocrisy -
Activists who rant and rave against the Second Amendment are usually the same people that claim tax-payer funded abortions are somehow constitutional. I'll take "That's Full of Bullshit" for $600, Alex.
No offense to the person who wrote today's "Week Around the Ists," but characterizing all citizens who exercise their right to purchase a gun (or guns) as being afraid the "social terrorists" will win is kind of lame. It might be because people know there's a good chance that taxes will increase on gun sales and they don't want to pay more in the future. Do I own a gun? No. I don't feel the need to purchase one. But I still like knowing I have the freedom to buy one in the future.
Oh yeah, I'm one of those scary Libertarians. Boo!
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Does the government have anything better to do with your money than bail out corrupt a$$hole bankers and makers of $h!tty cars, tell you who you can f**k in the ass, where you can have an abortion, what you can smoke, or how many guns you can lock in your cellar?
Apparently not.
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I'll add "tell someone who they can marry" to the Monkey's list.