I have been stewing over this post for several months trying to do research and come up with thought-provoking phrases that illuminate my desire for unity among mankind. I wanted to discuss my support for curches that choose to reject homosexuality and my disdain for a government that feels sexuality is within it’s purview. This clever post was going to center around the choice of legal verbiage of the religion-infused word “marriage” when the term “civil union” could be used as a religion-free designation. Seperation of church and state and all that.
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As most of you know, I have been against this whole Arnold candidacy pretty much since day 1. I thought the dude was a sexist jerk who was running for office purely for the purpose of ego-aggrandizement, rather than out of a sincere desire to help my state.
It is time to eat some crow and give credit where credit is due. First, by picking up more votes than the robot Gray Davis, Arnold has destroyed any argument that this election was un-democratic. Put simply, the person with the most votes won, and that is the way it should be.
Second, by signing two idiotic bills over the last few weeks, Davis made even me think twice about the recall vote. I am pretty well camped out in left field, but even I know that giving drivers licenses to illegal immigrants makes no GD sense at all. Davis said that he was doing it so that illegal immigrants could comply with the law and get auto insurance. Right. I am sure that the poorest segment of the population feels really bad about breaking this particular law and has been dying for the chance to spend thousands of dollars on insurance. And I am also sure that Davis did not pass the bill simply to increase his support among Latinos.
His other accomplishment, requiring certain small businesses to provide health insurance to employees, will do nothing more than force employers to consider moving to Nevada and Arizona. It surely will not increase health-care coverage in the state.
Both bills were just pandering.
So here is a toast to Arnold. May he be wise, judicious, and proactive. And may he prove all of the naysayers (like me) wrong. Because California deserves nothing less.
(On a side note, I am thinking of hunting and shooting the 12,549 people who voted for Gary Coleman, but that is another post…)
The NYT Editors want the Red Sox and the Cubs to meet in the Series.
With all due respect to our New York readership — Yankee fans among them — to George Steinbrenner and to the Yankees themselves, we find it hard to resist the emotional tug and symmetrical possibilities of a series between teams that seem to have been put on earth to tantalize and then crush their zealous fans. Together they account for 180 years of futility. The Cubs have not won a World Series since 1908. The Red Sox have not won one since 1918, a little more than a year before they shipped Babe Ruth to the Yankees, a famously bizarre transaction that ushered in the era of Yankee domination.
I agree completely with the sentiment, but want to bag on the NYT for 1) Dissing the home-town team, and 2) failing to disclose that the NYT owns part of the BoSox.
1) is slightly excusable – this is an opportunity to deprive sportswriters in one city of a decades old cliche and encourage a little bit of new thought in the writing boxes. 2) though, is a pretty decent violation of my (admittedly weak) knowledge of disclosure ethics.
Go Cubbies (That’s for you, Doc.)
This is way out on a limb-
Recent comments by Wes Clark recently put forth his personal belief that soon we’ll figure out how to travel faster than the speed of light. And while I was watching the Marlins beat the Cubbies last night, I started wondering about sports once we leave the earth.
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