It is, after all, a civil rights issue.

This week, a big news story broke: Martin Luther King’s widow has given her opinion on the gay marriage “debate”.
POMONA, N.J. (AP) The widow of Martin Luther King Jr. called gay marriage a civil rights issue, denouncing a proposed constitutional amendment that would ban it.
Constitutional amendments should be used to expand freedom, not restrict it, [...]

Changing the Past

Laura’s question this week was a good’un:
If you could change five events—historical or personal—from the past, which ones and how? What outcome would you hope for?
You know, I’ve posed this question to two very different groups of students during my years teaching here in Korea. The first group was an assortment of adult students whose [...]

More Evil Accoutrements (aka Made In America, Alright)

Bush and Myanmar are Like This
From Yahoo News:
A ‘Bush-Cheney ‘04′ campaign jacket sold on the Internet has stirred controversy because it was made in Myanmar, whose imports have been banned by the United States. Although the company that shipped the fleece pullover, Spalding Group of Louisville, Kentucky, has said it did so in error, human [...]

Evil Accoutrements

Does anyone doubt that Satan would wear a necktie?
(That is, were he to exist…)

All Quiet On The Web Front

It’s almost 11:00 am. Most days, at this time I’m either cycling to work, or I’m already there, sitting in the office diddling on my computer, or chatting with other teachers. But on Fridays, things are a little different: I teach from 2:30pm until 10pm, and so I find myself at home all morning, sometimes [...]

Okay, this was unexpected…

I expected Han Solo or maybe Han Solo, but look what the Infinitely Wise Internet says:
You are Rhett Butler. Dark and brooding, you willdo anything for the woman you love. You areextremely sexy and know how to make a girl feellike a woman.
Which Sexy Rogue Are You? brought to you by Quizilla
Uh, okay. [...]

All Marriage Banned in Oregon

In the midst of a bid for theocracy in America, nobody knows what is a right and what is a privilege and what to do about all these fucking morons screaming that gay marriage violates their rights as pathetic bigoted heterosexuals. So until it’s all sort out (and hopefully the bigots shut the fuck up) [...]

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