David Vienna's Blog, page 148

jizelpink:literally my childI want to meet this child.

jizelpink:

literally my child

I want to meet this child.

Wyatt and Boone in some of their Grandpa Larry’s old...

Wyatt and Boone in some of their Grandpa Larry’s old Nudie’s Rodeo Tailors suits from the 1950s.

We danced in breaking waves of sunlight until the sun grew...

We danced in breaking waves of sunlight until the sun grew tired.

Stuck doing chores? There’s a cocktail for that

Stuck doing chores? There’s a cocktail for that:

davidvienna:

See how I managed to reference unicorns while discussing my book Drinks For Mundane Tasks with @shelikestowatch of the San Luis Obispo Tribune.

If I keep boosting my own posts, they say I could go blind.

This lovely brotherly moment was quickly followed with a type of...

This lovely brotherly moment was quickly followed with a type of chaos not fitting a place with fancy chandeliers.

iamtheaardvark:joelcarroll:For those that wonder about...

iamtheaardvark:

joelcarroll:

For those that wonder about Cars anatomy, here’s Thomas the Tank Engine’s true form

i am so UNCOMFORTABLE

Um… I found your new nightmare, @charliecapen.

trans-parenting:I am furious. And it’s hard to even articulate...

trans-parenting:

I am furious. And it’s hard to even articulate the full depth of those feelings.

This morning Donald Trump disgraced the thousands of trans soldiers and tens of thousands of veterans who have bravely served this nation with this discriminatory announcement.

Just over a year ago, then Secretary of Defense Ash Carter - after studying the implications for the military - moved to lift the ban on transgender individuals serving openly in the armed forces. The ban around trans folks was separate from “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. The full implementation of the new and more inclusive policy was to take place this year. Clearly we are on a very different path today.

Trans folks have been serving in the military (likely for all of its history), and trans folks will continue to serve in the military even with this turn of events. An estimate by the RAND corporation put the number of current active duty trans service members at between
1,320 and 6,630

individuals another by the Williams Institute put the number around 15,000 including all active duty, guard, and reserve members (with an estimate of more than 100,000 trans veterans). And survey numbers suggest that trans folks serve at a higher rate than the general population - the US Trans Survey found that 15% of respondents were veterans, compared with 8% of the general population. These brave individuals are serving and have served in spite of major barriers and social stigma, and have fought and died bravely for a country that has continued to deny them equal rights.

Many of our close allies and partners including the UK, Canada, Germany, France, Australia, etc. allow trans folks to serve openly. And

Boost.

From the “Be Careful What You Wish For” Department...

We were swimming and tossing around a Nerf football. Wyatt (who’s 8-years-old) shouted to me from across the pool, “Throw it as hard as you can, Papa! Try to hit me!”

“You don’t want that,” I warned.

“Yes, I do,” he laughed. “Try to hit me!”

So I shotgunned the sopping wet football at him as hard as I could and it hit him directly in the nuts.

steveinaspeedo:This. Expect this.

steveinaspeedo:

This.  Expect this.

Your kids have abbs??

Yeah. Crazy, right?

They eat well and stay active. (Hell, by his own choice, Wyatt’s been a vegetarian for a few years now.) And we tightly limit things like screen time, so they get more physical play time.