The past few months have been very illuminating for me, and now that some in my party are viciously attacking Michael Schiavo, it is pretty clear what is meant by ‘the sanctity of marriage.’ The sanctity of marriage is bullshit rhetoric to keep fags from marrying- other than that, it means nothing to these Big …
Composition #2, Cole and pets
Here you go. Many but not all of John Cole’s greatest hits. I haven’t included some links, for different reasons: there were too many posts to choose from on a given topic (on Schiavo, or on alcoholism, for example); I wasn’t sure exactly which post a comment referred to; or I simply couldn’t track something …
What a Good Night
My good friend Walt came over, and I cooked up a fine meal and we watched (and still are) the Nova special on the elements, which is pretty fascinating even though the host makes me want to throttle him with his cutesy mannerisms. Made some crab cakes, and then a grilled monkfish over a white …
Lexicon (A-Z)
Teach a man a fact, and he’s smart for a day. Teach a man to reason, and he’s a pain in the ass to his social betters for the rest of his life. # A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U …
Bad Occurences On Election Day
From my standpoint, at least two initiatives passed that are objectively bad. 1.) Proposition 2, the ban on gay marriage, passed in Texas: Texans voted Tuesday to make same-sex marriages and civil unions unconstitutional. The highly contested and controversial constitutional amendment defining a marriage in Texas as a union solely between one man and one …