It was a windy day yesterday as Atlantans gathered at the Capitol for the worldwide protest against California’s Prop 8 and similar legislation that would limit family-building to a heterosexual privilege. Fortunately for me, I really like the wind. I was proud to stand up in the bluster with the 1500 or so people who gathered there in support of ( Read more... )

My mind was wandering on the way in to work this morning. It started with musing about the perception that capitalism is evil, often countered by the system's supporters with the claim that it enables people to pick their purchases based on their own moral decisions rather than integrating someone else's morality into the purchase decision. I think ( Read more... )

This is an excerpt from a comment I made on someone else's journal in reply to someone calling the government incompetent because of the current tragedy in NOLA. Frankly the whole sad situation has me tense in the first place, and hearing people manufacture a way to use it as a political tool -- yet another excuse to lambast Bush -- frankly has me ( Read more... )

Today's bombings bring to my mind a curious difference between the society of ancient Greece and that of modern America. To the ancient Greeks, members of a state were responsible both collectively and individually for the deeds of that state. When Paris took Helen to Troy, Menelaus held all of Troy responsible, and his armies ultimately looted and ( Read more... )

Some of the media are making a big deal about yesterday's Supreme Court ruling in Kelo v. New London regarding government exercise of its power of eminent domain.

( I think the media are way off-base. )