Viva la Revolucion

Someone recently asked me what I’m most passionate about.

Wow. Did they get an earful.

What I said was, “Ending bias and hatred in this country, and promoting equal rights for everyone. Not ‘special privileges’, not ‘exclusive benefits’; but true equal rights for all Americans regardless of gender, race, religious affiliation, intelligence, financial standing or sexual preference.”

Does that sound hokey? Maybe. And if it does, maybe that's the problem. Maybe we (as a society) have become so desensitized that we don't care about anyone but ourselves anymore.

Ask yourself: "Am I a human being? Do I matter? Am I just as good as the next guy?"

Of course you do. Of course you are. You matter just as much as that rich white Moral-Majority cigar-chewing, robe-wearing pig who's trying to reel you in and shut you up, shut you out and keep you down, and generally put his dusty Tony Lama bootheel on your neck for the rest of your life. And then he wants you to thank him for it.

He wants you to get a boob job but he won't let you get an abortion. He wants you to take the pill or have your tubes tied or otherwise handle the contraceptive responsibility but he won't wear a condom or get a vasectomy. He wants you to clean the house cook his meals and take care of the kids while he sits on his ass in front of the TV but he thinks you should also work full-time outside the house.

He thinks that breast-feeding is something that is to be kept behind a closed door because it "might be offensive," but he's all for the proliferation of topless bars in every community.

He doesn't think you should be allowed to love whomever you want, but he goes out and loves the one he's with and expects his wife to stay silent. He says that you're a freak, a pervert, a sociopath who should be locked up and somehow converted, but he plays with his well-paid freakish, perverted, sociopathic friends on Capitol Hill every damn day. And do you know what they're playing with?

Your life.

He and his pals at the country club believe in equal rights... for them.

And he's sitting squarely on top of a butt-load of revolution. He just doesn’t know it yet.