Adjective-less marriages and a hypocritical moral high-horse

This year will be looked at by future generations as a time that the tides are finally turning on the American landscape.  Americans, by and large, either have no opinion or a positive opinion on gay marriage.  It seems that only the most socially conservative (read Tea Party Patriots) want their names associated with disliking gay marriage on the basis of sodomy.

Luckily for us, they have a new tactic to protect us from the growing homosexual agenda in the liberal media: State’s rights.  If you haven’t been living under a rock, countless numbers of states (our fine state included) have been forced by activist federal judges to allow gay marriage against the will of the people.

OK guys… I can’t do this.
Thank the Flying Spaghetti Monster that I can minimize the use of the term gay marriage.  I hate that term.  As a former English major, I learned that adjectives can be friends and enemies.  In this particular case, the adjective seems unnecessary.  I want to talk about marriage.  All of it.  Straight folks have plenty of problems on this front too.

The dreaded post-debate post...

You might have noticed a small slack in long-form writing.  I've done a lot more on the Facebook page and a little less here.  Part of it has been the shear lack of separation in the candidates.  It's a lot easier to write about the differences between apples and bananas than it is golden delicious and red apples.

I thought, "wait until the debate, Michael, you'll hear so many things to write about."  It wasn't true.   Predictably, I wrote about a lot of the topics that came up in the debate.  I haven't written about medicaid expansion in great detail, so I plan to get there.

After the debate, it has put me in even less of a mood to write.  I'm a little despondent, fellow Goobers.  I need a pick-me-up.  I think that the medicine will be writing about the new marriage ruling.  I'm going to be doing that shortly (with some insight as a State worker, I hope).  Before I get there, I need to bring myself to talk about the debates and the standout moments.

First of all, I covered all of this live on the Facebook page.  I'm basically going to be going through that and making it more coherent in case you didn't watch the debates (for shame! they were an hour, go livestream it or something).

Before I get into specifics, I'd like to say that both candidates did horribly.  But, if I had to pick a winner, I would say that Dorman hit the most talking points.  I'd also give him a slight handicap as a Democrat in Oklahoma and coming against a strong incumbent but he did not flinch.