This morning I woke to an iced-over San Francisco morning, a french vanilla coffee, and a world that couldn’t be any weirder. Nothing feels as if it is where is should be. For the organisational freak in me, this is quite unsettling…like watching a journal burn. According to last night’s news, not only is it snowing in the desert (aka Vegas)
(what are the odds on that?) but it is also snowing in Malibu! (Cue shot of Pamela Anderson streaking through the snow in that infamous red swimming costume.)
And then, just yesterday we filled up the SUV, and it cost $30. Yes, you heard me. Less than half of what it cost in October when we did that damn roadtrip to Oregon. Gas prices have dipped to four a half year lows. Woohoo! The surprise here is that no one is talking about it. The major gripe of 2008 , the one we were force-fed alongside sorrowful stories of truckdrivers not feeding their families, is no longer even a passing mention on the crammed Obamamania pages.
And then something everyone is talking about made me sit up. Take a look here:
“Barack Obama’s choice of a prominent evangelical minister to deliver the invocation at his inauguration is … Rick Warren, the senior pastor of Saddleback Church in Southern California…opposes abortion rights… But it’s his support for the California constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage that drew the most heated criticism from Democrats Wednesday.“
So wait…let me get this right. Obama chose an uber-conservative Christian evangelical? Who forced him to publicly reverse his comments on abortion? And is anti-abortion? But what really matters is that he is opposed to gay marriage?
One thing that has not changed is that Obama is turning our world around. And now even his staunchest supporters can’t make up their minds how they feel. See Barack Obama Is America’s Favorite Republican!
Let’s hope that like OPEC manoeuvre to normalise prices, a few of these issues take a moment to recollect themselves and settle somewhere a little left of crazy. Then, I’ll be thankful for the reality check. And when we’re back to right-side up, I can be grateful for normal. Or I’ll just go with the the new trend and steal a Christmas tree.
