So fast, the title doesn’t even give you a CLUE.
But you know, making sense TAKES TIME, and a gal has to put the cutie pie son down for his nap.
First, Mark Morford’s bang-up column in the San Francisco Chronicle the other day: “It’s racism and homophobia, neck and neck, down to the wire.  Can they [...]

We knew a Field Poll on the California propositions would be released right before the election, and indeed, out it came.  From “‘Yes on Prop. 8′ gaining on foes, poll finds,” in this morning’s Sacramento Bee:
Over the past six weeks, a proposed constitutional amendment that would end same-sex marriage in California has gained substantial ground [...]

O, here we go.  Buckle the seatbelts:
 
Yep.  You heard right.  An official campaign spokesman at a Sacramento Yes on 8 rally just compared advocates of marriage equality to Adolf Hitler.
Yes, that Adolf Hitler.  
Along the way he had the gall to quote Pastor Martin Niemöler.  
Yes, that  Pastor Niemöler.  
DONATE TO NO ON 8 SO WE [...]

I love you people!
I was in the midst of “Urgent appeal, part deux,” a rambling rant which may not see the light of internet, because IN CAME THIS BREAKING NEWS!
Look what you just did!  You just blew past our pulled out of my arse third fundraising goal, and poured in more than $3,216 in less [...]

This just over the transom, from Kate Kendall (NCLR Exec. Director), closely followed (in more or less the same language) by Geoff Kors (Equality California Exec. Director):

On Tuesday, the other side reported donations of $2.2 million, dwarfing the $255,650 we reported, and called on their donors to contribute another $3 million.  
With this enormous sum of [...]

[This post is one among scores hundreds of entries in Write to Marry Day, a blog carnival to support same-sex marriage and rally opposition to Prop 8, organized by Mike Rogers of PageOneQ and Dana Rudolph of Mombian.]
With the dutiful, if futile, determination of Sisyphus, I keep trying to find some words – the words — [...]

And ample illustration of why I (along with any other sane person in this state) might need regular, high doses of Mary Oliver, my children, and everything else that is holy, over the next week.  
This incident, captured by a woman at an intersection I’ve walked through countless times, since I was a girl:

The Face [...]

     
The Buddha’s Last Instruction 
by Mary Oliver
“Make of yourself a light”
said the Buddha, 
before he died.
I think of this every morning
as the east begins
to tear off its many clouds
of darkness, to send up the first
signal-a white fan
streaked with pink and violet,
even green.
An old man, he lay down 
between two sala trees,
and he might have said anything,
knowing it was [...]