Time Out for a Political Rant

Politics. I try to keep it out of this blog, and have succeeded until today. I suspect that several of you and I would disagree on politics, and my purpose here is to write a fun and positive blog recounting my appreciation of strip clubs and dancers. Why poke my finger in your eye on other topics, if you come here to read those stories.

Besides, I would rather that you would be reading the previous post, which I wrote late last night, about a Feature Dancer porn star that I enjoyed seeing. Really.

So I write a completely separate blog on politics, that's every bit as long and as invested as this one is. Let's just say I pay close attention to the news and have to express myself often on those topics as well.

But I have to speak up today. I'm bummed this week by the news. By the murder of that precious little girl, Jessica Lunsford, in Florida by that drug addled pedophile. By the senseless slaughter in a school in Minnesota by a Nazi obsessed wastoid teenager. And by the murder of Terri Schiavo in Florida by her husband Michael. Bummed. This is the type of week when I wonder what kind of society we have become?

Several sites that I enjoy that are linked on my sidebar have commented on Terri Schiavo, mostly on the right-to-die side. I appreciate that people have honest and strongly held opinions on this topic, and I respect that. Here is mine.

Let me say 3 brief things.

1. Michael Schiavo is a bad guy, who is out to murder his wife. He does not have his wife's best interest at heart, and as a husband I'm appalled at his behavior. He wants his wife to die, and for nefarious purposes - not noble ones.

2. Terri's family - not just her parents, but her brother and sister, are long suffering saints who I admire deeply. Michael should step aside and let these fine people care for Terri. She's not dying, or at least wasn't until last week. Let them care for her.

3. If we allow Terri Schiavo to be starved to death in front of our eyes, court sanctioned or not, we have completely cheapened our culture.

I had to speak up. It won't help. I'll still be bummed and Terri will be dead. But I had to speak up.

Let Terri Schiavo live.

O.K. I'm outed now, politically. Flame away, and then go read my previous post, which is what I really wanted to talk about here.