I am. I’m sick and tired of waiting for someone to stand up to the Republicans on issues of morality, equality, hell, even religion. Maybe in twenty years we’ll have a real party again. There has clearly been no soul-searching. The leadership still plays it close to the polls and shifts with the polls like leaves in the wind.

Younger blood, like Obama, who is still a politician, and Hackett, who is clearly not, offer us some hope for the future of our party. They speak like they believe the words they are saying and the stand firm by their choices.

For a long time I blamed the Republicans and the media for making the Democrats cower. The media has played to the right for so long I honestly can’t remember a time when they didn’t. Of course, at 32, I’m not all that old. You can only blame others for so long though. I have a strong belief in the need to defend yourself — to stand up for yourself. And if you can’t do that, you don’t deserve to be in office.

How on earth can you defend the rights of millions of Americans if you can’t even stand up for yourself? That is today’s Democratic party.

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I just read the following over on Salon’s “The Fix“:

The secret profanity of “40-Year-Old Virgin” revealed: Screen It, a Web site ostensibly devoted to parents concerned about the content of Hollywood movies, bills itself as “an unbiased, easy to use, yet heavily detailed and complete look at popular entertainment your kids might see, rent, or buy.” But in protecting kids from smut, the people behind Screen It have had to learn to wallow in it. See their painstaking assessment of “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” for an example of just what “heavily detailed” means. Their rundown of the film’s profanity: “At least 68 ‘f’ words (2 used with ‘mother,’ 16 used sexually as are phrases such as ‘laid,’ ‘nail,’ ’screw,’ ‘do it,’ ‘get it on’ and ‘tap’), 29 ’s’ words, 19 slang terms using female genitals (’p*ssy,’ variations of that word and ‘poon,’ and ‘tw*t’), 15 using male ones (’d*ck,’ ‘c*ck,’ ‘c*cks*cker’ and ‘pogo stick’), 4 slang terms for breasts (variation of ‘t*tty’), 17 asses (2 used with ‘hole’), 4 hells, 3 damns, 1 S.O.B., 15 uses of ‘Oh my God,’ 8 of ‘God,’ 4 of ‘Oh God,’ 3 of ‘My God,’ 2 each of ‘G-damn’ and ‘Swear to God’ and 1 use each of ‘For God’s sakes’ and ‘Oh Jesus Christ.’ ” Oddly, the site also includes a number of possibly imitative phrases to watch out for that range from “F*ck your mother” to the seemingly innocuous (or laden with hidden meaning?) “Forty is the new twenty.” For even more awkwardly precise descriptions, see the “Sex/Nudity” section of the site’s “Brokeback Mountain” review. (Screen It)

Now I really want to see this movie. I’m a bad, bad boy.

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