Okay, now, these are some things that have really been bugging me over the past couple of weeks, but I’ve restrained myself, waiting for a moment of calm. You guys are all much nicer and more tolerant than those moderators over at The Guardian, who took issue with my lurid and thinly veiled attempts to [...]
French president Francois Hollande signs gay marriage and same-sex adoption into law despite national protests; After months of protests and fiery debate, the French President has legalised gay marriage and same-sex adoption. Francois Hollande’s signature means the first gay marriages may be celebrated in France within the month. By French law there must be 10 [...]
The hayseeds on the high plateau a couple of hours north of here are getting uppity. Moffatt County is in the absolute NW corner of Colorado, with Wyoming on its northern border and Utah on the west. It’s the second biggest County in Colorado (and a touch more than half the size of Wales, to [...]
Something hopeful on a Sunday morning. You’ll know that New Zealand just passed a statute legalizing same-sex marriage. What you may not know, and I sure didn’t until this very minute, was what that legislative process looked and sounded like. Now I do know. The public gallery and MP’s on the floor burst into song [...]
Yeah, we all know that 90% of anyone in the US who can fog a mirror wants to tighten up the background check system for the purchase of firearms (including a majority of NRA members if you catch them in a sane moment and ask the question properly), and not quite that many but still [...]
There’s not much in this old life, this vale of tears, that I truly understand, but some things are utterly mystifying. Such as a few glaring omissions in the list of things Jesse Jackson Jr. and his wife purchased with stolen campaign money. According to the NY Times: On at least two instances, Mr. Jackson [...]
Say what you will about those libertarians, they sometimes do decent work. In a discussion of the extrajudicial killings of Americans deemed by somebody or other to be terrorists, Nick Gillespie dissects the angsty journalism-school intellectualism of Michael Tomasky and briefly describes the pathetic toadyism of Touré. But, further to my readings of online self-help literature, [...]
… because I’m more normal, and have a shmushy finger. Here are some highlights of the recent inauguration, presented as a public service for those who were unable to attend — the way it really happened before it was overdubbed and made respectable by the rabidly liberal media, which, as we all know, is irretrievably [...]
At least Denis McDonough, new White House Chief of Staff, represents a significant departure from prior Chiefs (Rahm Emanuel, William Daley, Jack Lew), who spent their lives cultivating political power and friendships that would eventually be turned to huge cash by selling themselves to the highest bidder once their bloated, waste-filled souls could command a [...]
As I watched the BBC cover the inauguration live from DC this morning (American TV news makes me want to cut myself), a few clear, cold thoughts came to mind: 1. The national capital/capitol should rotate so that the great largesse of the bureaucrats (here’s one of many articles on the topic of being fat [...]