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I don't know how, but despite a five-line-long regular expression which is supposed to make all e-mails into my e-mail database be valid, someone's e-mail today spontaneously truncated the ".com" off of it, and so the 1500-subscriber e-mail push was interrupted last night. So we sent it again, but my erstwhile coworker inadvertently closed the browser in mid-push. So we sent it again and backed the hell away from the computer for the duration of the push.
Of course, some people got one e-mail. Some got three. At least one e-mailed complaining in a gloriously syntactically-askew and punctuation-disregarding missive. No, wait, actually, his punctuation was all right. For a two-line message, though, that can't count for much.
The gay marriage issue is heating up and I'm just saddened to the point of being disinterested. I fail to understand how adding homosexual relationships to acceptable couples will degrade the institution to a lower point than, hrm, let's see, Britney Spears, Elizabeth Taylor, Henry VIII, Jerry Lee Lewis, Michael Jackson (okay, that's not even fair, I admit), or any number of an assortment of quasiheteros who've done more than their fair share of damage to the modern marriage. It's like having to listen to the Catholic church's hierarchy railing against the ungodly nature of homosexuality when, face it, probably no organization has done more to encourage, discreetly protect, and encourage proliferation of homosexual behavior than same church.
I should probably be more offended or outraged but I'm just saving my energy. I don't anticipate this being resolved soon. I don't even anticipate anyone changing their minds. I do anticipate lots of people telling me how to think, though. But if they can't pass an Equal Rights Amendment, do they really think they're going to amend the Constitution (you remember that, don't you?) to delineate the nature of marriage?
Okay, now I'm really bored.
Of course, some people got one e-mail. Some got three. At least one e-mailed complaining in a gloriously syntactically-askew and punctuation-disregarding missive. No, wait, actually, his punctuation was all right. For a two-line message, though, that can't count for much.
The gay marriage issue is heating up and I'm just saddened to the point of being disinterested. I fail to understand how adding homosexual relationships to acceptable couples will degrade the institution to a lower point than, hrm, let's see, Britney Spears, Elizabeth Taylor, Henry VIII, Jerry Lee Lewis, Michael Jackson (okay, that's not even fair, I admit), or any number of an assortment of quasiheteros who've done more than their fair share of damage to the modern marriage. It's like having to listen to the Catholic church's hierarchy railing against the ungodly nature of homosexuality when, face it, probably no organization has done more to encourage, discreetly protect, and encourage proliferation of homosexual behavior than same church.
I should probably be more offended or outraged but I'm just saving my energy. I don't anticipate this being resolved soon. I don't even anticipate anyone changing their minds. I do anticipate lots of people telling me how to think, though. But if they can't pass an Equal Rights Amendment, do they really think they're going to amend the Constitution (you remember that, don't you?) to delineate the nature of marriage?
Okay, now I'm really bored.
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