an Alabama Judge just tossed a lawsuit asking roy moore to pay his own legal fees of $550,000. The lawsuit was submitted by three groups....The American Civil Liberties Union, Southern Poverty Law Center, and Americans United for Separation of Church and State. This was not an official state agenda in place when roy moore was fighting the law, it was a personal agenda. as a lesbian, my agenda is brought up by folks all the time, even though my agenda doesn't cost the taxpayers a dime. but the former judge roy moore had personal and religious issues he brought into court and fought for as far as he could go. but guess who foots the bill for his personal and religious agenda? me. and all the other residents of this state. the atheists, the buddhists, the muslims, even some chrisitians who didn't agree with roy, will be paying for the man's beliefs and religious agenda. it wasn't like he had a picture of the ten commandments, this was a 5,300 pound monument, folks. not something the elevator could even hold. it was the size and weight of his ego. nobody cared if he even put that monsterous thing in his office, but it was the fact that he couldn't display that as an official state monument. esp. since the I HAVE A DREAM speech couldn't be posted in the State Capitol. The highest court ruled that this monstrosity of a monument was unconsititutional, an endorsement of religion by the government, and ordered it to be removed. Who payed to have it moved? exactly! While he has violated the law with his relgious agenda, we will foot the bill for his breaking the law, and all his attorney fees (and it wasn't just AN attorney, of course, that's attorneys with an "s"). roy got expelled from his office, but we still have to pay the bill. that would be like a judge buying illegal drugs, and having the State pay for them to be transported, and then pay for his court fees. maybe we'd pay for some rehab in that case, i don't know, but perhaps we should consider that in this case....maybe we should pay for roy to get some counseling to overcome the effects of his problem. a little rehab for ole roy to recover from his little ugly problem that everyone seems to deny, the big pink elephant in the State of Alabama's living room....Religion.

hey roy, just say no!

nobody wants to be a bitter old lady.....sometimes i fear i might be there, except i'm not old yet.....this world is set up so that you can't be nice all the time, you just can't.  the assholes are everywhere and they will not allow you to be nice and civil and just do what you are supposed to do.....somebody has to be a dick over something stupid, or throw a fit over nothing, or just not do what they are supposed to do.  why can't everyone just get along, i guess i'm still of that old school frame of mind and i need to just get over it.  but then, i can't be an asshole, it's just not in me, well, not unless somebody is mean to me or somebody i care about.  i try to live by the golden rule, as corny as that might sound, and normally it works for me.  but sometimes no matter how you treat others, you are going to get the short end of the stick, way more times than i care to admit to.  but as i recall, that golden rule didn't come with any guarantees, so just because you are nice doesn't mean others will be nice.  you just have to do it because you feel it's the right way to be.  and i do.  it's just that sometimes it's not worth it, i'm afraid.  sometimes you just can't do it all.

this world is not for the nice guy, it's for assholes. 

when is the next train leaving?

work has been rough lately. we have a state audit coming soon, so we have to make sure all our charts are in order. it's pretty stressful. one bad mark makes that particular program fail the test. and makes the CFO, CEO, and clinical director [i]really[/i] unhappy with you. and when you are the boss, the buck stops on you.   your head, your shoulders, your ass.

we've lost several employees lately: our only nurse, one of our two doctors, our only nurse practioner. so, we have to find ways to serve all these people we've got in our caseloads.

my grrl has been really stressed about work. to the point that she's sick. and can't sleep. which means i can't sleep either and i worry about her. she works really hard and is underpaid and overworked and under appreciated.

i've had drama with my employees at work. people talking to me about people, complaining and wanting me to do something, while talking about me to them and complaining about me being in for them or something. i can't understand the motivation for bullshit like that. i really have no tolerance for that stuff.  the degree of deceit has really surprised me.  disappointed me.  and it has made me feel pretty alone at work.  it's made me put distance from myself and everyone else.  i think it will all actually work out to be a good thing, but it sure hasn't been fun.  it's hurt, my pride, my heart, my confidence, but, what do you do? 

you try to learn from it and move to a higher playing field, hopefully....and try to remember this isn't junior high school, this is real life adulthood, so fucking act like it!

have you ever noticed how people who make a career out of some profession/skill, usually aren't that good at it themselves?

how many hairdressers have you seen that have fucked up hair? they got bleached out, broken off, frizzed up hair and don't trust most of their fellow beauticians to do their hair.

how many mechanics have you seen that drive pieces of junk? or have cars that are always breaking down and needing them to work on them.

how about therapists? of all the therapists i know, there are only a few that are actually healthy human beings. seriously, some of the sickest individuals i know are in the mental health profession. sick therapists, fucked up nurses, freakish psychiatrists, etc...you can find these typoes all over the place. 

any other examples that you can think of?