| The Ghost of RubangB said: So fewer people hate gays, but they hate them harder? While just about everybody hates atheists, just a little bit each? If only there was a way to ... weigh the hate... in utils of hatred or something. |
This is actually a fairly accurate portrayal. Many people in the South dislike atheists, but they HATE gays. Although things are changing in the South (quite a lot of migration here from Northeners, people from the West, and people from Mexico). The people who migrate in tend to be a lot more relaxed about it.
The South will be a different place in 20 years (especially the more populace states like Texas, Florida and Georgia), I can guarantee it. We will always cling to our guns and religion though.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
