Update: 17,000 words and all of them the right ones

I think the thesis might be fin­ished. I re-did the con­clu­sion yes­ter­day morn­ing and tidied all the things marked “check this”. I proof-read the thing includ­ing the bib­li­o­graphy last week and added three squil­lion full stops in places like (ed.) and moved around people’s names and sur­names so they were consistent.

I even tracked down my old His­tory teacher from high school, Mar­garet Little, and thanked her for intro­du­cing me to Marx­ism. I’ve gone beyond it now, of course, but without the foundation…

So, this week I’ll be buying pretty paper to print it on and adding linkies into the elec­tronic version.

This means I also have time to be out­raged again at our gov­ern­ment… Although I find it harder to be out­raged on things like gay mar­riage because I oppose the insti­tu­tion of state-sanc­tioned mar­riage in the first place, I still think Howard’s pro­posal to ban gay mar­riage is pretty rank. I thought it was a fait accom­pli, but appar­ently it’s not yet been enacted, so if this makes you sick, write a letter. I’d prefer we have a kiss-in out­side par­lia­ment house which would be more fun and con­front the homo­phobes with the desire that repels them, but some­how I don’t think that will actu­ally change any laws.

I have one ques­tion though: if the Mar­riage Act does­n’t cur­rently state that mar­riage is between a man and a woman, exactly what has been stop­ping all the same sex couples in love from get­ting mar­ried? And should­n’t they all run out and get mar­ried imme­di­ately (those that want to) before this change takes effect?

EDIT: sleazemon­key has made a beau­ti­ful post about his reac­tion to the mar­riage thing.