Yes, exactly

We are so often told by opponents of marriage equality that they do not oppose our right to have basic legal protections. What they do not understand, because they have never had to understand, is that without legal marriage, gay couples are always subject to the veto of family members who have more say over [...]

Sage advice

Happy Saturday.

Rundown, evil cackle edition

* I found out today that someone recently called me power-hungry. I’ll take that as a compliment, especially in this city.
* I have a craving for steak.
* Kathleen Sebelius is coming to Asheville
* While I’m on the topic of this fair town, what it really needs is a fetish/latex fashion place with some decently affordable [...]

Thought for the Day

The painting is an allegory of the evils of power, how they pass down the chain from the greater to the lesser. Human beings were clutched at, and clutched at others in their turn. If power was a cry, then human lives were lived in the echo of the cry of others. The echo of [...]

Oh September

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
-T.S. Eliot

Thought for the night

I am human, nothing human is alien to me.
-Terence