Leper Messiah

Leper Messiah

Giving the world a hand since February 3rd, 2002. "If you're gonna dine with them cannibals, sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten."

I pity the fool that doesn't e-mail me!

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Comments by YACCS

Wednesday, February 18, 2004

INSTITUTIONALIZED DISCRIMINATION

Read this.

Now, read it again, and this time replace the words "same-sex" with "black", "colored", or "nigger". Add the word "white" before the words "man" and "woman".

If this doesn't make you sick, read it again.

Although the targets of such fear & hatred have changed in the last 30-odd years, the words & tone have not.

"I refuse to accept the idea that the 'is-ness' of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal 'ought-ness' that forever confronts him."

--Martin Luther King Jr., in his acceptance speech for his Nobel Peace Prize

so wrote Leper around about 4:19 PM

"...BUT CAN YOU DEFEAT MY 'FIST OF THE WEST SIDE'?"

The many fighting styles of Donald Rumsfield.

(via Instapundit)

so wrote Leper around about 3:40 PM

Tuesday, February 17, 2004

GLADIATOR 2?

I think the only way that Howard Dean will win the nomination right now is if Kerry & Edwards kill each other in a knife fight backstage at the next debate.

so wrote Leper around about 4:20 PM

LUB-DUB, LUB-DUB

So we heard the baby's heartbeat for the first time yesterday. It was all very...anticlimactic.

I guess I was expecting some kind of personal epiphany, something to make this really real. I'm beginning to wonder if it'll only seem real when they hand me my child. I wonder if I'll accept the little "bundle o' joy" the same way I do when grandma gives me a sweater for Christmas: "Uh...gee, thanks, Gramma! <pssst--where's the receipt?>"

Of course, they'll have to waive the smelling salts under my nose in order to get me off the floor of the delivery room.

Back to my question: what will it take for this to really sink in?

It's been a month since we found out, and I'm still very much in "freak-out" mode. HowamIgoingtopayforthis?HowamIgoingtoraiseitright?HowamIgoingtoknowifI'mscarringthekidforlife?
WhatthehellamIdoing?

Maybe this is why I'm so tired all the time. Stress.

The kid isn't even here yet.

People keep asking me if I'm excited. Terrified, is more like it. Scared stiff.

Oy.

so wrote Leper around about 4:03 PM

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