Is everyone as lucky as I feel on a day like this? The sun is beautiful, the people in my life are gentle and love me, the world is full of so many good things. Even the evil nasty ranting of Morrisey is sweet and pretty. As the poor bastard sang, There is a light and it never goes out… But of course I don’t mean it as he did. I woke to a sweet conversation and a farewell of a kind. I found kind words on my site, and a wonderful invitation spun its way to my through the …
Month: March 2004
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, Coretta Scott King said Tuesday. Dr. King would be proud, I’m sure. When will these theocrat types stop and realize that their days are numbered? They’re going to look as gauche, backwards, and ugly as people who opposed “interracial” marriage a generation or …
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 English was of the highest level in our school, meaning that at least half the students had been abroad. Some of these students were considerably older than me. The second group was a pack of middle schoolers. Now, their answers may have been …
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 rights groups blamed President Bush (news – web sites)’s re-election campaign staff for not taking a more careful look at the origin of the products being sold in its name. Bush waves during a campaign rally at the Orange County Convention Center in …
Evil Accoutrements
Does anyone doubt that Satan would wear a necktie? (That is, were he to exist…)