Read all about it A fanatical Christian friend I had once told me how homosexuality was wrong, but he would not hate them "just" for being gay, and did he not believe they would go to hell. How magnanimous it is of Christians to let gays through the pearly gates, along with child murderers who have been redeemed on their way to the gas chamber. He would only say he "loves the sinner, but hates the sin." Sin? I would ask him, isn't it the least bit possible god created homosexuals to control the population? Or perhaps to provide nannies for orphaned children. Women were dropping left and right during childbirth...a flaming homosexual nanny would be a gift from god, in my mind. It wasn't possible to him that human beings are so complex, so much so that infinite variations are possible, and that this is one of the defective variations just like cleft palates, dwarfism, or red hair. I wouldn't normally compare gays to dwarfs, but I'm trying to reach Christian logic centers here; if a person did not choose to be homosexual, there is no way it could be a sin. Even more, it might be part of the grand design, of which Christians always profess not to have personal knowledge; that doesn't stop them from telling us they know better than we do when it comes to their belief systems. He couldn't answer why fanatical Christians are so concerned with who screws what in where. After all, if homosexuals are so evil, and they're recruiting, protect your kids from them the same way you would from drug dealers, or people who use the F word too much. It never made sense to him when I said, "It's none of your business what they do in bed, and NO, holding hands in public does NOT make it your business any more than it makes it my business whether or not you and your wife have oral sex, just because you hold hands in public." We must not tolerate fanatical Christianity any more than fundamentalist Islam. The ultimate path of each is the limitation of personal liberty and bloodthirsty pogroms. The Crusades may have been hundreds of years ago but Bosnia, Serbia, Sudan, and many others were just yesterday. Let's not have a tomorrow.

Read all about it As if we needed more evidience that the runaway bride was completely nuts and not marriage material... But this guy will probably marry her like god says he should and he'll end up with 5 dead kids. Can you spell Y-A-T-E-S, you dear future husband of this whackadoo?

- Is anyone else sick of that ho hum brunette as the Yahoo! Mail cover girl? Is the Calvin Klein undie model available? - Why do idiots in SoCal drive in the left lanes when traffic is passing them on the right? - Why are traffic lights never synchronized? Why am I stopped at light #1, lights #2 and #3 are green. Light #1 goes green, so light #2 goes red; light #3 stays green. Light #2 goes green and now light #3 goes red. Has anyone calculated how much time and gas we waste stopping at 10 lights in 10 blocks? - Why are people in Southern California so complacent over the illegal immigration problem? - How do people who call me racist for being against illegal immigration answer to the fact that Mexico's laws are the same or more strict than ours? Are they racist?

Read all about it Apparently, there's no murder, drunken driving, child molestation, kidnappings, beatings, or any other serious crime in Texas because they have time to pass laws banning cheerleader butt jiggles. And in the State's House of Representatives, no less. Unbelievably, I'm siding with the only sane person quoted in this story: "Democratic state Rep. Senfronia Thompson, also of Houston, said the bill was a waste of valuable time. 'I think the Texas Education Agency has enough to do making sure our kids are better educated, and we are wasting our time with "one two three four, we can't shake it any more?"' Thompson told legislators.

Bumper stickers seen on a gargantuan SUV on the road today: Right side of bumper: "Cap Insurance Rates -- Not Injured Workers' Compensation" Left side (how appropriate) of bumper: "John Kerry..." blah blah something about a new America, blah blah This moron is no more aware that the election campaign is ancient history, and that they make stuff that makes taking those stickers off real simple, than he is able to understand you cannot pull money out of anyone's arse-not even a corporate arse. The parental refrain "Money doesn't grow on trees!" just didn't sink in there, did it buddy. How can you provide an unlimited outflow of benefits (benefit=cost=money is required to buy!) with a limited inflow for the payment for said benefits? Or does $1 + $1 = infinity on Planet Leftist?

One of my favorite people in the whole wide world looks like Ben Affleck's fraternal twin. I have dubbed him Brett Affleck, and I think he'd pass as such at any Follywood A-list restaurant or club (just take me with you, B). Several people who've heard me talk about him but have never seen him have said, aw, come on now, how much does he really look like him...? You be the judge.                             

A friend living deep in the socialist trenches of France recently pegged me with the question "well if the media is so liberal why aren't they showing pictures of the body bags in Iraq." I replied with a picture from the FoxNews.com home page which showed a seriously injured young girl with her father at her bedside. I offered to PhotoShop a body bag into the picture if that would help... What I failed to do that day was to copy what was simultaneously on the CNN.com home page; my recollection now, several days later, is that it was something like why Benedict chose that name, and later in the day just a picture of an empty Iraqi street. Today, the front page of FoxNews.com is that of a very small child being cradled in the arms of a US soldier, with the caption: "GI comforts a child fatally wounded in a car bombing." My heart aches for this child and his/her family, for the GI there offering the only thing he can—his loving arms. My heart breaks over the fact that someone, a homicide bomber, could and would tear apart precious life limb by limb in this way. Ultimately, it’s to no significant end, either; the line in the sand in Israel has moved what is symbolically just a few inches. If this method was at all effective, Palestine would control the entire middle east, for all the bloodshed caused by their homicide bombers. On the cover of today's CNN.com home page is simply a dour picture of Lynndie England (oh the irony and the humanity). There is a blurb and its corresponding link to a news report on the carnage in Iraq today, but certainly photos. What does this say to me? CNN can't bear to publish these photos or to speak candidly about the carnage because they'd lend credence to the fact that these homicide bombers--not the United States, not Great Britain, not the average freedom-seeking Iraqi, but homicide bombers--are responsible for the death, destruction, and misery in this budding new country (and elsewhere). If the LEFTIST media had any stomach at all for the truth, they would widely publicize the murders. They'd have the guts to show what destruction they wreak on the world without pillow-soft euphemisms such as "the opposition" or "Islamic freedom fighters." MWB Note: I'll gladly email you the two photos, dowloaded within a minute of each other from the respective home pages of FoxNews.com and CNN.com.

Marla went to Vegas. Good times, good times. End of story! We love you Marla!

I had the privilege of attending a one year-old's birthday party on Sunday. My sister was in town for the party (she lives an hour away otherwise), so it doubled as a bi-weekly visit with her and my precious nieces. Everyone who matters has seen their pictures and already knows how unbelievably beautiful they are, but I digress... The hostess/mother rented one of those huge blow-up tent thingies in which kids can jump up and down with little danger of serious injury. The kids can't bounce as high as a trampoline and the tent is enclosed with blow-up and netted sides. Inside this latex beast, we have a mini window into a major debate. Where's the president of Harvard? Where's the Huffy Witch who couldn't even listen Dr. Sumners' opinion that, god forBID, girls and boys are--gasp--different? If Huffy Harvard Witch took her fingers out of her ears and her fist out of her own self-blackened eyes, she might see what I saw on sunny Sunday California day. A dialogue, if you will, between 2 year-old Lucas, 3 year-old Jacob, and 3 year-old Emily: "I'm Lucas. I'm 2. Watch me jump on Jacob!" "Look! Look! I can flip this [pointing to the ceiling of the tent]! Watch!" ""Owwwch! Go away! Please! I'm jumping!" "I shot him in your head! Bang! You're dead! I took your head off!" "No you didn't. I shot you dead. Pow pow!" While I could go through this discourse and credit the quotes, I don't think anyone will have any difficulty in discerning what gender spoke. What I found infinitely fascinating was just how different these wee little lasses and lassies are, so early on; strikingly so. Mammals of the four-legged furry type are indistinguishable until sexual maturity. We are completely different from the moment we hit our feet and start opening cupboard doors. Socialization had nothing to do with this exchange; my sister never taught her daughter to be dimunitive and sweet, "like a lady" should be. Even if she had, what a lady is like would mean nothing at such a young age. It is simply how Emily is, and has been, since she could walk. I'm sure Lucas and Jacob have been boy-style terrors since they could walk. Why the "debate" continues on whether or not boys and girls are different is mind boggling. That we are, end of story. Why we are, only a bit more debatable. How much impact this difference has on the statistical probability of a female becoming a brilliant scientist vs. a male becoming a brilliant scientist, the only unanswered question. If Huffy Witch spent a little more time on this answer and less on turning harmless comments into statements of absolutes and fact, perhaps she could really make an impact on this world, rather than the job of one brave man.

Read all about it Our good friend Jesse has managed to pull off another appearance at a non-event. Jesse's quite a bit like personal injury attorneys who sit with a police scanner in one hand and a business card in the other; as soon as they hear of a tragic, disfiguring accident, they're on hand--long before medical personnel. Three students at Trinity University received racial threats via email, an alarming occurrance at the normally peaceful Christian U. In comes Jesse to pontificate about the pervasive nature of racism; the dorms were evacuated, the white witch hunt was on. There was just a small problem...the emails were fabricated by a black student so that she could use the campus safety problem as a reason to leave school. With the media on Jesse's side, he doesn't even have to slouch away with his tail between his legs. Not that Charlie Sheen and his genius buddies would care; they'd just cry at some awards banquet again... "Come back Jesse! We need you!" We need you to rip off your own people and to stir up racial tensions, hate, and discontent where there was otherwise none to be found!!!!! Right here, in the streets, your streets, your community feels patently justified in allowing the murders of one another go on and on. So go ahead, Jessie, chase racist ghosts; just make sure you leave your business cards only on the living victims, just like all good sharks. You can save on printing costs. Besides, the dead can no longer worship your Wizard-of-Oz image or donate money to your fradulent organization.