"A lifetime of sleepless nights"

I'm sure by now you have all read about the pregnancy of Dick Cheney's daughter Lesbian Mary.

My first comment is incredibly cerebral: HAHA, Bush and Cheney, you morons!

Here are my other, only slightly more compelling thoughts:

The fact that I even know about Mary Cheney's pregnancy and that it is considered "news" enough to warrant an entire article on CNN pisses me off. Mary Cheney's pregnancy is none of my business, and it's certainly not remotely within the realm of decency for conservative and fundamentalist pundits to publicly condemn her and her wife for starting a family.

I've been reading Barrack Obama's newest book, The Audacity of Hope, and in the first chapter he writes about exactly how politics came to be paralyzed by flash point issues such as, among other things, gay marriage (read: gay family rights). And with such inappropriate public scrutiny and inflammatory rhetoric given credence on a national website, is it any wonder that this paralysis is sustained? I read this article, and now I want to cause physical harm to those fundamentalist assholes.

Mary Cheney and her wife are not celebrities. And I didn't hear these pundits raising a battle cry when K-Fed kept popping out kids.

This whole event makes me ashamed of my heterosexual pregnancy privilege. I freak out when a stranger wants reassurance that I'm not carrying twins due tomorrow. I never have to worry that someone is going to call my pregnancy "unconscionable." UGH.