Legal pot? Legal gay marriage? Universal health care? What's next, free porn and candy? (Morford)

SFGate.com ^ | December 15 2004 | Mark Morford (hot for Sven Robinson)

[RightWingAtheist]

Did you hear the screams? Did you feel the menacing chill? Did you see the black and ominous clouds, moving north? Did you sense, in other words, the very presence of Satan himself as he laughed maniacally and tossed around bucketfuls of ultrathin condoms and little travel-size packets of Astroglide like confetti while riding his Harley Softail up to Toronto or maybe Edmonton to join the ghastly and sodomitic celebrations?

Because it's happened. Canada's high court just ruled that the government can, if it so desires, redefine marriage to include gay couples, which it has declared it will do almost immediately, thus solidifying Canada's place as the chilly yet mellow and gay friendly and hockey-riffic epicenter of all known hell.

It's true. It's rather amazing. Gay marriage will be completely legal in Canada very soon. It's been oddly ignored in much of the U.S. media and hasn't really been much discussed among those in the terrified red states except when, deep in the night, from their respective lumpy twin beds, they whisper to each other across the room as they pop their Ambien and stroke their portfolios and curse their very genitals: oh my God what's wrong with those freakin' Canadians?

[Lazamataz]

What's next, free porn and candy?

I like to steal porn right out of the hands of children.

I'm evil.

[RightWingAtheist]

I happen to be Canadian myself, but I tire of people thinking that it's a great big blue state. Their opinion is based solely on their impressions of parts of Quebec, Ontario, and the major cities in the Western provinces (particularly Vancouver and Winnipeg).

[stuartcr]

You're right.

[No Surrender Monkey]

Geuss what? Rape is "going to happen, no matter what any group condones." If progress allways wins, what happend in the last election. Sexual morals wax and wane. Compare the 70's (or, for that matter, the 20's) to the nineties. Right now, we are approaching low tide. The government has no control over what gets on the news. If it did, Watergate wouldn't have happened. The newtworks choose not to show us graphic pictures, because they feel that the majority of the audience doesn't want to see them. However, they DO play up the negative stories and ignore the feel good ones, because they think doom and gloom is more interesting. Canada, on the other hand DOES censor the News. Openly. Fox news is not allowed. And satellite TV is illegal. Just to make sure nobody stumbles across it by accident. Kinsey was an admitted pedophile. I DO agree that we are over medicated, but then I don't even take aspirin. Morford glorifies crystal meth use in several other columns.

[stuartcr]

OK, thanks.