No thanks

There are probably thousands of Mormons around the US that are thrilled that Mitt Romney is running for president. I'm not one of them.

A buddy of mine at school has probably sent me over 200 articles on Mitt Romney, both positive and negative. What common theme is found in every article? Mitt's religion. I'm not one to be ashamed of what I believe in, but when I read articles written by people who argue that Mitt's religion will prevent him from every being president, I want to crawl under a rock and hide out until he either fails to get the nomination or is not elected president.

My buddy, aware of my feelings about a Mormon candidate, sent me an article today about other Mormons who are weary of their religion being discussed so much in the media. What's worse than reading these articles is reading the comments written by people responding to the article. It's incredible how angry someone can get about another person's religion. Here's a great example of some loser on Bill O'Reilly arguing that "A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan." Incredible.



I love how Bill O'Reilly ends the interview. If you ever want to see a great BOR interview, check out the one he did with Dr. Laura and watch his face when she uses the term "sweaty embrace."

A popular topic among Mormon critics is polygamy. It's precisely this doctrine which makes me think that those early members of the church who practiced polygamy were men of God. Not to knock my wife (who I love very much), but one wife is plenty. To get me to take on another wife, it really would have to be a commandment from God and even then I would really have to think about it. I already suck bad enough as a husband to one wife, I don't need to suck as a husband to multiple wives. Plus, I don't need anyone else in the house telling me that I need to empty the kitchen garbage can.

Back to Mitt: I'm sure I'll end up voting for the guy if he gets the nomination (which I don't think will happen, or maybe I just don't want it to happen). I would just be happy if I could read an article about him without hearing anything about how his religion is the biggest obstacle he needs to overcome.

Moving on...

Did any of you catch the MTV movie awards? Neither did I, but I did read about this gem from Sarah Silverman:

“That movie 300? Turns out how they got that title was they measured how gay it was. On a scale of one to 10.”

When I read this, it was one of those times where I was reminded why I shouldn't be surfing the internet at work. It's hard to pretend like you are laughing at a trial notebook you are supposed to be working on.

I lamented the death of 80's hair metal in my last journal entry, but afterwards I remembered that there is one part of one song that reminds me of a great 80's hit. The song is "Welcome to the Black Parade" by My Chemical Romance, and really the only part of the song that sounds like it should be played in an arena comes at the very end. I'm not a huge MCR fan, but their last album was pretty good. I can't ever watch any videos by these guys because the singer looks like Billy Corgan and there is no band that I dislike more than the Smashing Pumpkins.

The end.