May 18, 2008

Normally I check all my facts before I write a post. On my last post, about the California gay marriage ruling, I didn’t bother for the first time since starting this blog, and a friend called me on it. That’ll teach me. (She also whispered, “Thou art mortal,” just for good measure.)
A brief history: [...]

May 17, 2008

Sorry to rain on everybody’s parade, but this isn’t a good thing.
Of course, I have already explained why I believe that civil unions would be better for us than gay marriage. I have also explained why at this point I don’t want gay marriage at all. (For those of you who don’t want to click, [...]

April 28, 2008

Shortly after World War II, male bartenders tried to bar women from their profession. They saw bars as the poor man’s version of the gentleman’s club, a male refuge from the wider world. They were places women rarely went. There might be a jukebox crooning softly in the corner, but there was no dancing. Men [...]

April 3, 2008

Every time there’s another landmark on the way to gay marriage, several people send me links and jubilant emails about it. They expect me to jump up and down and cheer about it, but I can barely register even polite interest.
It isn’t that I don’t want to be able to legally formalize a commitment to [...]

November 7, 2007

����������� It is ironic that I, who thanks to personal experience am automatically suspicious of all parents, should be such a staunch supporter of the nuclear family and of full-time, stay-at-home mothers. It wasn’t until I started studying conservative thought a few years ago that I became aware, to my astonishment, of the overwhelming statistics [...]

August 5, 2007

I support George W. Bush and the War on Terror!
When we tell a man that he may not challenge another to a duel, we are telling him that he must swallow any insult to his person, family or tribe, that anyone else is free to insult him in any way they wish. This is a [...]

August 4, 2007

I support George W. Bush and the War On Terror!
I’ve been rereading Jane Austen of late, and I find myself noticing something her era � and, in fact, most eras in history before this one � had that ours doesn’t: a healthy attitude towards heterosexuality.
Although I don’t practice it myself, I am completely in favor [...]

December 24, 2006

For the record, I’m Jewish, but somehow have a sufficiently strong sense of self that my identity is not diminished by seeing evidence that a holiday of another religion is being celebrated. Sometimes when someone wishes me a Merry Christmas I reply with a cheerful “Happy Chanukah”, but I hardly feel that they’re forcing their [...]

November 15, 2006

I keep pointing out to my fellow homosexuals that voting Democrat gets us nowhere, not even on specifically gay issues. They promise us the moon while they’re campaigning and never bother to deliver, such as when Bill Clinton welched on his promise to allow gays in the military and signed DOMA. They [...]

November 11, 2006

In more ways than one, heterosexuals use us. This happens in a lot of ways. The most pervasive, of course, is the way left-wing politicians and activists court our votes and donations by promising us “acceptance” and then stabbing us in the back when it comes time to vote on DOMA or gays in the [...]

November 8, 2006

Newsweek is adhering to its usual journalistic standards:

A Dissent: The Case Against Faith. Religion does untold damage to our politics. An atheist’s lament.
I don’t wish to insult Oriana Fallaci, Schopenhauer and Ayn Rand by grouping a bargain-basement mind like this with them, so I won’t dignify him by calling him an [...]

It’s possible, as a few conservative bloggers have already pointed out, that yesterday’s losses will be good for us in the long run. Maybe they’ll make Republican politicians realize they need to shape up or ship out.
Let me clarify. I tend to feel impatient with those Americans who turn up their noses [...]

November 4, 2006

Disassociated Press:
In an unanticipated aftereffect of “Memogate”, CBS’s revelation of a
memo allegedly detailing preferential treatment given to President
Bush during his time in the National Guard, the memo has turned out to
be proof that the U.S. government has been collaborating with aliens
and concealing it from the public for decades.
“It began when those [...]

November 1, 2006

I have never seen this publication, you understand, I am merely reverse engineering it from the efforts of Democrats I have met.
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1. Don’t confuse the issue with facts. Facts bore people. All they want is an appeal to the emotions.
2. Logic doesn’t sway people, lung power does. If, for example, you make a statement about [...]

October 31, 2006

Disassociated Press.
An increasingly belligerent White House, not content with the tastefully discreet retraction Newsweek displayed prominently on its back page, is now pressuring Newsweek - by the McCarthyesque strongarm tactics of asking them - to minimize the damage caused by the inaccurate story. At least sixteen Muslims were killed in the riots the false report [...]

I’ve been planning to post about this for some time but kept putting it off. Today I noticed a news article about yet another argument someplace or other about what should be in school textbooks about this whole thing and it bestirred me.For the record, what I myself believe is that God made evolution happen. [...]

October 22, 2006

***Warning: This post contains speculation, political commentary, and most dangerously, humor. Handle at your own risk.***
There are some votes that Democrats can always count on. Evil people, for example, will always vote for us because they understand that we have the same goals as they do: poverty, dictatorship, and mass murder. You will recall [...]

I just happened to be thinking about the movie Lawnmower Man (you should all rent the director’s cut version, which is infinitely superior to the heinous theatrical cut), and one line pointed up to me a basic false assumption about evolution.The title character, who’s been injected with experimental drugs that made him supersmart, suddenly develops [...]

September 15, 2006

Here I have outlined my reasons for considering it vitally important that homosexuals have a way of legalizing our unions. The question here is, should we have gay marriage or “civil unions/domestic partnerships”?
I think the latter might be a better idea. I can’t say for sure, but here are my reasons.
Up until the 60’s, the [...]

September 11, 2006

“When I see the city of New York from my window — no, I don’t feel how small I am — but I feel that if a war came to threaten this, I would like to throw myself into space, over the city, and protect these buildings with my body.”
~Ayn Rand, THE FOUNTAINHEAD