Response to Andorina

Dear Andorina,

I don’t think Papa is wrong or that I am right or that I discovered the truth whereas he is confused. I merely think his position in based more on emotion and less on pure reason than mine. The need for retribution is always emotional.

What I Like About Christmas

Let’s go over each thing, in order of goodness …

Why Gay Marriage is a Horrible Idea

Social justice is a slowly evolving mechanism. In 1866, the Fourteenth Amendment was passed, promising equal protection for all citizens under the law. Blacks were no longer 3/5 of a person, but were a whole one now. Everyone was equal, at least on parchment. In 1869, we passed the Fifteenth Amendment guaranteeing suffrage to blacks; humans we saw as property only a few years earlier were now guaranteed the right to vote, and humanity was finally enlightened. In 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment was passed, generously allowing women the right to vote.

One may asked, why the 15th and 19th amendments were necessary. Why didn’t the 14th Amendment secure these rights already? The answer is very important, because it also explains why Gay Marriage is such a horrible idea.

Time to Consider Joining the Republican Party

The Heathen Republican asks me what it would it would take to get me to join his party.

Obviously, my philosophy would have to change or the philosophy of the Republican Party would have to change.

The Anatomy of Love

“When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one’s self, and one always ends by deceiving others.”

Oscar Wilde was quite the cynic. Can it be that simple? What does it really mean to be in love? Everyone has asked the question. We all want to know.

Don’t we know already? If we don’t know what it means to love, then why do we tell people we are doing it?

The Rise of the Myth of T. Paine

A liberal blogger made a comment in the heat of debate to which the blogger T. Paine almost responded. He failed to answer only because he is officially missing.

Yikes!

I don’t think Rick Perry has the chance of the proverbial snowball in hell of defeating Obama; but he does.

A Relevant Aesop Corollary

Mr. Sol (and whomever else it may concern):

You know who was too clever for his own good? Right, Aesop. He envisioned many memorable characters. The tortoise is remembered, as well as the hare, as well as the boy who cried wolf, and even the wolf he cried. The fox and the grapes are always familiar. Lots of people ask, “Who’s Aesop,” any time his name is invoked.

I Just Had a Corn Soy Dog

I just had a corn soy dog. It was every bit as good as the real thing.

I guess it was as good as the real thing. I don’t know what the real thing tastes like.

I guess even the real thing is not the real real thing. A corn dog barely has corn and I don’t think there is any real dog involved.

So I guess the corn dog is kind of a sham, a bit of a fake.

Anyway, I just had a corn soy dog, which is a fake corn dog, which is also a fake corn dog.

My corn soy dog was every bit as good as the fake thing, though.

I guess it was. I have never tasted a corn dog.

Now is the Time

This “debt crisis,” the budget debate, and now the credit downgrade have everyone’s adrenalin running high.

Slight annoyances become points of anger; small areas of disrespect become unforgivable character flaws. We are all showing our ugly sides because most of us have rarely been so passionate about an issue or embraced our position with such certainty.