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