Whip me, beat me, make me bleed.

Apparently today was primary elections here in Kansas City and I completely missed it. I am a bad citizen. I admit it. I have failed in my civic duty of voting. Apparently there was a vote for an ammendment to the state constitution banning gay marriage, (which I didn't even know about.) Well the ammendment passed overwhelmingly. Now personally, I could care less what gay people do. I think marriage is a man and a woman, but I can understand why that's a moral argument and not a legal one and why legally it's fair for gay people to have the same rights and privileges as anyone else. What makes it amusing is that KC has a small but extremely vocal Liberal population (some of whom are even on my friends list - nothin' but love for ya, guys! :) )who are so far left they make Ted Kennedy look like Rick Santorum and they are screaming bloody murder about right now. You'd think they'd just passed a law forcing gays into ghettos behind concrete walls and barbed wire with goose-stepping armed guards. I empathize with the gay people who have been affected by this, I really do, but watching extreme partisans of either political faction get into an uproar just amuses me to no end. I'd be having just as much fun if the ammendment had passed and Far-Right Conservatives were wailing about "the End Times" and "Sodom and Gomorrha" and what-not.

In other news, while I am a bad citizen I am a good voyeur and have been following the missing persons case in Utah that has made national news. I follow these things because I'm a news channel junkie and news channels cream their frilly, lacy, schoolgirl panties when a case like this happens. It gives them something they can follow throughout the day. Otherwise they're forced to embarass themselves by offering up items like how an empty high school gymnasium in Ohio collapsed into a sinkhole or how how some 87 year-old woman's missing Yorkshire Terrier made the brave trek across three states to rejoin her. Anyway, I guess today the missing woman's husband admitted what everybody already knew: he did it. Good. Maybe now she can get some justice and Fox News can stop dredging up everyone who's know this loser since he was six years old to ask what kind of guy he was. I've seen a woman who was a patient in the psyche ward he used to work in on twice now and it's just painful to watch. This woman obviously has serious problems and can barely stay focused long enough to deliver a simple sentence, yet they keep dragging her on TV to exploit her passing familiarity with a guy who may have killed his wife.

Is there a seperate charge you can slap on someone if a crime they commit leads to TV news exploiting a crazy person? If there's not there should be. I would vote for a state constitutional ammendment forbiding the exploitation of lunatics on TV. Oh wait... that would mean no more reality shows...

I'd still vote for it.

Speaking of news channels, I almost forgot...

( For you music fans, I saw an interview with Robert Smith from The Cure on CNN tonight! )