Again, don't get me wrong: Banning Satan from your city limits is, well, kinda dumb. But I guess my cock-eyed respect for Ms. Mayor springs from the fact that Matt did something quite unusual, and refreshingly NON-journalistic: He asked her, Who the hell are you? As a fellow SOS user and former intimate acquaintance of mine once said, "Nobody loves anything more than to answer questions about themselves."

See, we can, and should, mock foolish ideas here, but I kinda... liked this woman. She's operating from her belief system, one which a lot of us -- myself included -- think of as archaic, trite and, on occasion, totally irrelevant. But you know, she's doing what she believes in, she didn't abuse public moneys to do so, and dang it, if that's what she wanted to do, and she still wasn't alienated enough from us to do an interview, then that's just fine. Be true to your convictions, that's all I ask, and don't steal from my pockets to do so. In fact, I feel much the same way about Peter Gilmore. Something tells me Ms. Mayor and Gilmore might get along better than they think... really! He's quite sociable and willing to talk the talk, and she seems quite strong in her beliefs.

I'm as agnostic as they come, I'm definitely a liberal, I think organized religion and Christianity as we've come to know it is a sham. But you know, I don't really wanna leave messages on this woman's machine... something tells me they wouldn't affect her anyway, so mebbe we should just jabber about the last cool thing we saw on the Discovery Channel. There's a lot of common ground here, and it's not like this woman is bombing abortion clinics or burning crosses on her lawn.

See, that's the whole thing about SOS, and why I think this woman was so forthcoming with her answers: Fuck the media presence, baby, we're all human here... you like root beer?