The chickens are not winning

I've been desperately trying to see a silver lining in the Chick-fil-A boycott, thinking there might be a tiny lessening in the number of chickens consumed at the end of the day. That's what I get for being an optimist; it backfires every time. Carnivorous equal-marriage proponents are just opting for other fast-food chains like KFC or equally despicable joints.

Seriously, KFC? You don't consider it "hateful" to profit off the suffering and slaughter of millions of chickens?

In addition, there is the inevitable backlash in the form of the anti-gay right wing nut-bags, namely Mike Huckabee, who declared today "Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day", and apparently the numbers of said nutbags are staggering. The LA Times reports,
"Across the country, Twitter users described “mile long traffic to get into chick-fil-a,” stores “so crowded there are cops directing traffic off the highway” and '26 cars in the drive through.'"

In case you missed it, my friend and guest blogger, Chicky the Chicken weighed in on the controversy earlier this week.

Every Fast-Food Restaurant Is Against Equal Marriage: Now Will You Stop Eating Me? An Open Letter From a Chicken To Humans

Dear people,


First, I’d like to say thank you for making such big news out of the comments made by Dan Cathy, Chick-fil-A’s Chief Operating Officer, which confirm that he is against marriage equality. The guy represents a company that, as we already know, is totally homophobic and donates millions of dollars to groups like The Family Research Council and the Marriage and Family Foundation and deserves to be vilified.

But guess what else? I’m here to tell you that every single owner and employee of every fast food restaurant, and every grocer and dealer of poultry hates the gays. In fact, every time you eat a fried chicken leg, you are basically killing the dreams of gay people living a decent life. When you chow down that bucket of chicken wings you are giving the message that you believe gay people don’t deserve a normal lifestyle, that they aren’t just like everyone else.

Here's me, worried about freedom to marry

On P90X

I recently completed 90 days of P90X, the boot-camp-style fitness program whose DVDs you might have seen on infomercials. The workouts are led by this dude called Tony Horton- who, according satirical website ChristWire(dot)org, "turns America gay". They've created the following charts and graphs to prove their point. Here's my favorite: .

Okay, I have to post one more. It's truly difficult to choose just one.

I guess since I was gay pre-P90X, that means it turned me straight. Tony Horton is just so funny! Like, there's this one part when he's introducing his backup dancers and says about one of them, "Her name is Pam, but I like to call her (lunges and fist pumps) Blam!" This really makes me LOL each time. Tony also has a real innocent and sincere side. Like in the yoga workout when he's describing a yoga philosophy and then explains, "I don't know, that's what they tell me. Heck, I believe it." It's just so pure and vulnerable.

One mother-effing year

In 4 days, on March 20th, I will mark my one year anniversary as a Vegan. Upon realizing this, my first thoughts aren't of meat, vegetables, animals and the accolades I clearly deserve. Instead, I can't believe one year has passed. What the hell have I done this year? (Besides save hundreds of animals through my compassionate lifestyle.) Let me have some coffee and think about this. I'll post another blog when I can properly reflect. In the meantime, I think I should plan a one year anniversary meal, celebration, or ritual.

P90X- my journey toward fitness superiority

Today I started P90X: the hardcore 13 week fitness plan. I had never heard of P90X Until Ali told me she's doing it and it seems like something I'd like (i.e., extreme change in lifestyle, promises of a healthier life, trendy), so I haphazardly decided to join. My goals are to have Michelle Obama arms and the ability to climb a mountain.

I even want her dress and necklace

I knew I wasn't in good shape- I can't run around the block unless I'm chasing the ice-cream truck. I'm used to yoga and pilates which offer plenty of physical benefits, but I had zero cardio and almost no weight lifting in my life. This morning I found out I am not only in bad shape, but totally embarrassingly out of shape.

I barely passed the "fit test", which the P90X plan recommends you do before beginning the program. Doing 2 minutes of jumping jacks was hard for me! That's just wrong- I'm an otherwise healthy young woman and I should be able to do 2 fricken' minutes of jumping jacks without almost having a heart attack.

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