Year: 2005

Tab Hunter’s life is enough to make a reparative therapist say, “I told you so…”

Get out the fork, I’d say Harriet Miers is done. My prediction is that it is all over but finding some way to save face. I thought she would be Borked over Roe in the other direction but Miers seems so confused about what she thinks that now both sides are going to have caution.

Schism is very near for the Episcopalians.

This from the New York Times regarding the Kansas court case where the Kansas Supreme Court ruled that gay and straight sexual offenses should be consequenced in the same manner. This is fair and I agree with it. However, the rationale offered by the Judge about the law is horrendous: According to the Times,

Justice Marla J. Luckert wrote for the unanimous court. Justice Luckert rejected the argument that homosexual sex is more likely to transmit diseases.”The Romeo-and-Juliet statute is overinclusive because it increases penalties for sexual relations which are unlikely to transmit H.I.V. and other sexually transmitted diseases,” Justice Luckert said, referring to the oral sex in the Limon case and sex involving two women. “Simultaneously,” she continued, “the provision is underinclusive because it lowers the penalty for heterosexuals engaging in high-risk activities,” notably anal sex.

1. Oral sex is only slightly more safe than other forms of sex, especially if a condom is not used, whether the participants be gay or straight.
2. Anal sex is risky whether it be gay or straight (and maybe this is what she is saying and I would agree) and so the penalities should be the same.

Just don’t see what the types of sex have to do with anything here.

Maybe there is more context in the case that would make this make some sense but at first read this seems a clueless way to reason.

The Rules: List five songs that you are currently enjoying at this moment! It doesn’t matter the genre. What matters is that you post five songs that you’re really enjoying right now. Post the instructions, the artist and the song in your blog along with your five songs. Then tag five other people to see what they’re listening to. Trackback, pingback, slapback at will. Anyone can play.

Here are mine:

Here are the last five songs I listened to today:
1. Changing Horses – Dan Fogelburg
2. Heavy – Collective Soul
3. Fascist Architecture – Bruce Cockburn
4. Gotta Serve Somebody – Bob Dylan
5. Those Boyz – Unmatching Socks (my daughter Emma)

As Byron and Paul, I suppose I am tagging you back. And Xman – I am tagging you as well.