The last workday of June

• Most talented 6-year-old EVER! (Seriously! Watch at least through her song. You won't regret it.)
• Heat wave. Ugh.
• That's nearly it for June. Summer's off to an insane start.

Pedaling into banality

With the end of the oddly out-of-place rain, I've returned to bike riding.

I'm going to feel this later. The whining will be epic.

Twenty minutes ago, the fog was low and quite thick. It's starting to burn off and it's not even 8am yet. Weird, given how mild it was as I biked in. And by "mild" I mean "I really didn't need that windbreaker I was wearing".

That likely means heat. That will contribute to my whining.

At least I'm self-aware in that respect.

Now on to other matters

DOMA is dead. Prop 8 got kicked in the marital region and sent off to bigot-hell.

Now can we all just let people get married and move on to more other important things? Seems we've got a few choice items on the plate: climate change, snooping and spying (Hi NSA!), shrinking middle class, corporate malfeasance (Hi BP and banks!), and a lack of Doctor Who episodes to entertain me.

Priorities.

Blather bother and babble

• Cleaning crew keeps screwing around with my desk. It's getting annoying. Hm. Maybe it's the NSA. Heh.
• Yesterday, while going to get my laundry, I found an elderly neighbor had slipped on the steps and was unable to stand. Thankfully he was not injured and I was able to help him get to his apartment, but... damn. How long would he have been there if I hadn't crossed his path? Scary stuff.
• Watching the media and the government spin into crazy-land over Snowden is providing me with amusement. I look forward to the inevitable Hollywood takes on this. Sure, they'll mostly make out Snowden as a bad guy (probably chased by Tom Cruise) but who knows? Over 100K people signed a White House petition to pardon Snowden. Seems to me that indicates the public is pretty concerned about spying by the government and privacy protections.
• Why is it only Wednesday? Why?

Journalist, not activist

Alexa O'Brien's letter to the New York Times. It's a thing of sublime beauty.

A few of the things currently pissing me off

1. The apparent death of the Fourth Amendment (Hi NSA! How are you and the FBI doing? Find Snowden yet?)
2. California's Public Utilities Commission not wanting to fine PG&E for blowing up San Bruno.
   Seriously. What the fuck is California's Attorney General doing? What the fuck is Jerry Brown doing? Doesn't this seem... more than a little fucked up???
3. The teasing over the Prop 8 ruling by the US Supreme Court. Hell, the fact that there was a passed Prop 8 in the first place. This is goddamn California. We should be ditching crappy legislation like this.
4. The pending BART strike.

Not an inclusive list. I just felt like whining.

Where's Wa... um... Edward?

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