Blood debt

Footnotes are fleshed out after the “continue reading” link.
“You break it, you buy it.” – crude maxim explaining responsibility in simple terms.
It also explains my sentiments towards the war in Iraq. It was a war prosecuted for the wrong reasons and it can’t be said that the dead would speak well of the outcome, as [...]

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A call to reason, through a different prism

One of my greatest frustrations with supposedly intelligent/educated/thoughtful people in America is that they usually lack the knowledge beyond their own subjective experience or desire to understand. History is a lost concept to so many, which gives rise to impatience and a failure to appreciate that time is a variable they actually do need to [...]

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Thoughts on fully expected Prop 8 ruling

How can they rule that way? It’s a very narrow ruling on the proposition’s legality, rather than on the Equal Protection clause. They also are not ruling on an amendment to the US constitution, only to the CA one. Since constitutions are living documents and can be changed by the electorate (in CA they don’t [...]

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“Molasses running uphill in a snowstorm”

In exactly two weeks the end of this administration will come and a new one will begin. It is without a doubt a happy occasion for most, including myself, albeit from perhaps a slightly different angle than many on whose side I usually find myself seated. It is not the passing of one man in [...]

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Progress

Being back in NC, even if it is a part of the state I’m unfamiliar with, brings on an odd sensation. I’m down here for training with two co-workers and I particularly enjoyed driving all the way down here. I even recalled enough to tell my co-worker knowingly that we are in fact in the [...]

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Checkbook marchers

If anything good could come out of Prop 8’s passing, it would be the death of the moneyed “there in spirit” marchers, or more specifically their ethos. It is the coward’s way out to send off a check and go back to your dinner parties, glossing over that part of yourself that deserves equality, but [...]

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Where’s my outrage?

I never had any pretensions regarding marriage. I long ago decided it wasn’t for me, and  long have I been reconciled with it. So I don’t suffer the righteous indignation sweeping the nation, or at least my blood pressure does not rise, I did not quail in anger as results came in on November 4th, [...]

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At last

I sent this text “If this isn’t the best day of my life, I can’t imagine what could be?”
And I can’t.

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Election blogging: Finale

Wow. I just can’t express it. Just Wow!
We have done it.
When it hits me in the morning, I think I will tear up.
I’ll stay up to watch his speech just to be there, to see it.
I think we’ll lose Prop 8, but I’ll cross my fingers.

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Election 2008: 3

2042 Gerry Connolly (D) in VA is far ahead in Tom Davis’ old seat.
2049 TX is kinda close. Wow.
I only had to wait 90 minutes to vote, and while you had some of the yuppies bitching about the wait, it was really well done. DC’s regular voters, like me, know to be patient and to [...]

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