Trouble’s what we’re in, trouble’s what we’re causing. Each state goes through its own marriage debates, and each one has provided their own dialogue to the heap, but it is California, in my opinion, that has set the tone for gay marriage in America.  New York has emboldened our allies and kicked the hornet’s nest [...]

With the gay marriage wins in New York, a lot of people want to know what’s next.  A lot of states are next.  2012 is going to be a battlefield of gay rights, and it will be filled with glorious wins and damaging losses.  This is the first in a series. An increasingly likely candidate [...]

This debt talk is working Mama’s last good nerve for a list of reasons, not the least of which is it confuses the living daylights out of me.  Is nationwide finance so impenetrable?  Or do they actually like keeping the country in this state of overwhelmed vertigo?  One of them says, “Only A will save [...]

Yesterday, New York’s gay marriages began.  How many gay marriages were performed that day?  An unheard of 823.  An out of those, only seven involved priests being held at gunpoint while my catechism teacher had those “Clockwork Orange” pliers put in her eyeballs.  Even Michele Bachmann likes those odds. No, in actuality, the only danger [...]

The sun rose today in the country of Ghana, as it does everyday, but this morning saw the orders of Western Regional Minister Paul Evans Aidoo carried out to arrest every gay citizen they’ve got.  Reason?  No reason.  But that’s Europe for you.  Wait, what?  Oh, it’s in Africa, that’s right. I was getting worried.  [...]

I don’t usually date.  In fact, let’s just round down and say, “I never date.”  To date means to go on a series of dates, to be strung together on a string of pearls known as the beginning of a relationship.  My string of pearls sucks.  I don’t count my prior attempts in the past [...]