Think of Tina Turner’s hit song: “What’s love, what’s love, got-to-do, got-to-do with it…” Cometh Valentine’s Day, and storefronts are sick with every shade of red. Gosh, we’re a loving people. You can tell from our music, literature, rhetoric and scriptures. We sing and rhapodize about it, and look for it in all the wrong […]
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Rise of the Bathroom Police
April 25, 2010[Massachusetts still is wrangling with a notorious bill that brings out all self-appointed guardians of morality. If you’ve noticed its head having been raised again in the news, read this post from last year for helpful background. Then ask yourself: when are we ever going to stop doing what we do to people we don’t […]
Don’t Ask: It’s Nobody’s Business
February 12, 2010How ridiculous is this “Don’t ask, don’t tell” business? Where are we, on the dark side of the moon? Do I have a problem with whoever is willing to fight for our country, putting self in harm’s way and risking death, though they may never even know you or me? No, I don’t. So whose […]
His Marriage Offends Me
February 7, 2010I mean knucklehead New Hampshire state Rep Jordan Ulery, and another of his kind, Rep. David Bates, who deem themselves on the side of the Lord in matters marital. Both are banging drums, waving flags and collecting signatures from the politically dull-witted to challenge the Granite State’s gay marriage law. Hence, signers and pols are […]