Stonewalling

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Yasmine

Ze was "maar" een zangeres/tv-mens/watdanook. En op wereldschaal heeft dit niets te betekenen. Er gaan elke dag mensen dood. En ik *had* ook niet echt iets met haar, in tegenstelling tot veel andere lesbiennes. Mooie liedjes, dat wel. Mooie vrouw, dat ook. Maar toen ik gisteren hoorde dat ze gestorven was, door zelfmoord dan nog, was en ben ik er redelijk ondersteboven van.
Ik denk dat het me vooral raakt omdat ze er zelf voor "gekozen" heeft, hoewel ik niet geloof dat je van een keuze kan spreken in een (vermoedelijke) depressie. Er zelf voor gekozen? My ass, zelf gekozen. Mocht ze weloverwogen, met het volle verstand, de feiten op een rij gezet hebben: "redenen om te leven", "redenen om niet meer te leven", "haalbare doelen op termijn"... zonder depressie, zonder liefdesverdriet, zonder wat dan ook. En als ze dàn gezegd had "nee, dan hoeft het voor mij niet meer", mja ok, dan kan je misschien van een keuze spreken. Maar dat zal wel niet. Dat is er nooit.
Zo onbegrijpelijk, en tegelijk net wel te verstaan. Bovenal zo verdomde jammer.

Wedding

We're not planners, the Girlfriend and I.
Well, let me rephrase that, I am a planner, but I need a bit of time to panic and flail beforehand. The Girlfriend is very much "go with the flow".
Still, today was the first time we managed to sit down as calm, intelligent adults and do some planning and decision-making for the wedding (only *gulp* four months away tomorrow) without (nearly or totally) getting into an argument.

I'm calling it progress!

Now don't get me wrong, I love this woman and she loves me and there's no doubt in my mind that I want to marry her. It's only I sometimes wish we could elope and be done with it! Worrying about money, stressing it won't be "good enough" and meddling family members form an explosive cocktail that leads to short tempered Piglet, hence the (near-)arguments.
But no more. It's *our* wedding and we'll do what we damned well please. Now can I start looking forward to it?

Obama

No, he can't.

At least you expect this kind of stuff from a Republican, but when it's a Democrat hailed as "the bringer of change" and god knows what else...well, it makes it all the more infuriating.

Verkiezingen 09

Is er ook maar iemand verbaasd over de hypocrisie van deze omhooggevallen oetlul?

Oh boy

So with the European parliament trickling full of nationalistic Europhobes (I'm linking to the UK but I might as well link to any other European country), the Flemish one filling with Flemish Belgophobes and the Walloon one filling with a corrupt party..... how will things fare the coming years.

Hmz.
Allow me to be slightly sceptical.

And Belgium is EU President in July 2010? Let's hope we still have a federal government by then!

The mind boggles

Gay marriage is sinful and decadent, right? According to some idiots in the States at least. Marriage is a holy sacrament between one man and one woman (or "one penis + one vagina" as I saw on some signs during anti-gay marriage rallies), as God-or-the dinosaurs intended and gays should keep their filthy paws off it. They can have *some* rights, but only separate and not equal. Right?

Right.
And then those same heterosexuals now get to marry a total stranger on a reality TV show. Because that, ladies and gentlemen, apparently is the right way to enter a meaningful holier than thou sacrament.

The Cuteness!

Gay penguins adopt a chick.

I love penguins.
And gay penguins? How fantastic can you get?