== The good news, the bad news = By Mark Morford

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Gay wedding cake, the last days of Bush, and his 'n' her vibrators

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/09/26/notes092608.DTL&nl=fix

The good news: Proposition 8, the November initiative that would permanently congeal the state's lingering residue of homophobia and prohibit gays from ever getting married lest plagues of designer locusts and rainbow-colored frogs and sweet-natured gay math teachers who wink menacingly at your innocent virgin boy-child in algebra class rain down upon the land, appears to be failing.

Support now hovers somewhere around 38 percent of the state's sexually terrified and confused and old, most of whom live in Orange County and the farm belt and who, perhaps tellingly, say that they also support less reading in schools, an increase in half-off sales on week-old salami logs at Pepperidge Farm at the Northtown mall, and more shooting of those damn teenagers in the kneecaps for playing that gul-dang hippity-hop music so loud that it shakes the baby Jesus figurines right off the TV.

The bad news: Proposition 4, which would require teens to notify a parent before having an abortion, is currenly ahead in the polls, after failing twice before. Also, that extant, disquieting feeling that the nation's army of truly serious homophobes, the evangelical nutballs who've merely retreated back to their tract homes to drown in Rush Limbaugh and secretly surf for gay porn, are merely waiting for Sarah Palin to unleash her harridan's wail so they can fire up their pitchforks and pile into the minivan and head to a rally at the local gay-friendly Starbucks.

The good news: Obama is surging once more, leading by about 5-10 percentage points across all major polls, as any bump McCain enjoyed by cramming his shrill trophy VP into the spotlight has vanished like the nation's economic stability and McCain's own ethics. Truly, McCain's fake "suspension" of his failing campaign and his recent use of foul, Karl Rove-like attack tactics against Obama are merely designed to kowtow to what remains of Bush's terrified base, a strange, sad strategy that, given how violently it's backfired on Dubya of late, should prove to be a disaster -- albeit one with lots of praying and fire and more convulsing/speaking in tongues at the Wasilla Assembly of God. ...