Re-election nightmares (courtesy of calligrafiti)

[azurelunatic]

She doesn't trust Dubya to leave us free of the military draft. I hadn't thought about that, since I'm not accustomed to living in a state of uncomfortable and (by all measurements I can see) losing war. (Anyone remember "out of there by June 30"?)

And she brought up the "snog-your-buddies" approach to avoid being drafted (hell, if they want to make being queer a disqualification, I know a few guys who I suspect would suspend their homophobia for the greater good) and that left me with nice, nice mental images.


Fuck you, Dubya, for making me worry about the health and safety of my bondmates above and beyond the usual levels of everyday danger that they're in.

Bless you, calligrafiti, for bringing to my mind the diverting image of my bondmates snogging, for any reason whatsoever.

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[tygerr.livejournal.com]

In the US, certain forms of gender-based discrimination are in fact legal.

There was an effort back in the 1970's to amend the US Constitution to put a stop to that. It was a long, heated, loud, and acrimonious battle on both sides, and in the end it was defeated. One of the more effective arguments used by the anti-egalitarian side was, in fact, that the proposed amendment would probably be interpreted to require that any military draft include...WOMEN (gasp).

Americans are squeamish about some pretty odd things....