To people who think I'm too cynical

I sometimes wonder whether I'm cynical enough. For example, I once had the idea to write a short story in which the main character committed suicide by crashing his car on Route 1, and in which all anyone else could think about was the effect on that evening's commute. I dismissed the idea as too far over the top. Now have a peek at this.

Quote of the week

"While the Family Leader pledge covers just about every other so-called virtue they can think of, the one that is conspicuously missing is tolerance. In one concise document, they manage to condemn gays, single parents, single individuals, divorcees, Muslims, gays in the military, unmarried couples, women who choose to have abortions, and everyone else who doesn’t fit in a Norman Rockwell painting." — Gary Johnson

Ageism works both ways.

Allegations of ageism are a common topic of conversation in the LGBT community, but people who comment on the matter tend to leave out the fact that ageism runs both ways. While some twinks and twinks emeriti seem to think that only people within a narrow age range should ever leave the house, some younger gay men complain about being treated as decorative objects who could not possibly ever having anything useful to say, solely because of their age. That last part, however, does not fit into the reductionist P.C. world view.

How to make enemies and influence people to think you're an idiot

By now, you've presumably heard of the vandalism of the HRC store in Washington. When I asked what that vandalism was supposed to accomplish, I got that all-purpose scathing rebuttal, "La la la, I can't hear you."

Of the explanations that I've heard, the one that makes the most sense is that the event was a plant intended to make radical queer activists look bad. It goes to show that Poe's Law is not limited to the religious right.

Today's vocabulary: "most of us" and "you"

most of us, n. phr. I (example)

you, pron. I (example)

Quote of the week

"Only in government do you spend money regardless of results. In the real world, you buy something, you spend money, you expect something in return...." — Governor Andrew Cuomo, on New York State's high spending on education and not so high results

Today's vocabulary word: essential

essential, adj. convenient to whatever point I'm trying to make: This Bible passage is essential to our faith; those other parts just described the customs and norms of the time.