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So, this morning on Religion and Ethics Newsweekly I learned something totally disturbing---apparently in November, Congress OK'ed a request from the White House for funding to resume testing of nuclear weapons in the Nevada desert. Apparently, we are under so much threat from people who can have underground bunkers that the only way we can protect American interests is to develop small load nuclear weapons that can blast these bunkers wide open and destroy all the chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons stored therein. This was on R&E Newsweekly because there are a lot of people who have lived in Nevada all their lives---"downwinders", they are called---who have developed all sorts of radiation-related cancers. Our present president's dad signed the original nuclear test ban in 1992, but apparently now we are living in such a heightened state of threat from underground bunkers in other countries that it is imperative we risk the health of our own citizens to test weapons we can use to destroy them, should the time come. As is typical of R&E Newsweekly, both sides of the argument were presented, although the pro-nukes position was presented by someone from the Heritage Foundation, and everyone knows those guys are a bunch of right wing nut jobs. But SERIOUSLY, how is it that talk of nuclear tests resuming went totally undetected by ME, a serious anti-nukes hippie liberal commie pinko fag? Lucky Severson said in his commentary that there will probably be some debate before any actual testing starts(no earlier than 2006, I think he said) so I guess it is not a cause for extreme alarm. Except that I am extremely alarmed that Congress approved money for nuclear testing but can't manage to solve the fucking health care crisis. It makes me want to hurl. Also making me want to hurl is getting up at the buttcrack of dawn to deliver sandwiches and bagels and coffee to the south side. Once it was all over, it seemed like much less of an ordeal than we had worked it up to be. Honestly, Herbie and I had kind of a great time in the boxed lunch factory after catering an underappreciated cocktail party at filmmakers. I guess I can kind of see that after being in a board retreat all day long some people would just want to get the heck out of there, but it was sort of sad that there was all this beer and all these cocktail fixins and all these polenta bites and various fritters that went untouched. Still, those who appreciated appreciated VERY MUCH, which is what makes our job fun. That and the leftovers. After the catering we had a sushi stop at Orient Kitchen, and then went to town making sandwiches and wraps and boxing them up. It was drudgery, but because we both kept a sunny attitude, it was FUN drudgery. And today, the first of two wedding reception meetings. The one today is actual for a "union ceremony" for a lesbian couple. (we can't go threatening the sanctitiy of heterosexual marriage by calling it a wedding, now can we?) I am really excited about it. The second is tomorrow and is for some dear friends who are going to have a whale of a party. And then on Monday, more and more meetings. And then, back to the bookstore to finish out my term, collect my paycheck, and say my goodbyes to California PA. And then, I gotta get crackin on finding a new place to live while simultaneously building my breakfast empire. Goodness! I'm busy, busy, busy, in a good way. |
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