If You Stand For Nothing You'll Fall For Anything

Pro Life or Pro Choice?


An unborn child does not give birth to itself and is not a being until it exits the womb. Until it is born. No female, whether she’s 14 or 40, doesn’t struggle with a pregnancy, planned or not. Nor does she feel nothing once the decision to bring the child to term or abort it is resolved. It is a woman’s life and I believe, her choice to do with her body as she sees fit.


For Or Against: Capital Punishment?


Many disregard the value of human life and demonstrate their disgust for it by destroying those around them. What separates us from savages, among other salient and civilized distinctions, is our ability to differentiate between what is just and unjust, what is right and what is wrong.

War, human sacrifice, torture and incarceration have been with us since the Dark Ages and this country has been built on that bedrock.

However (as evidenced by Clorox wipes and the toaster oven) we are no longer prehistoric. Still the fascination with extreme suffering, violence and death is part of our everyday lives. We live to kill and kill to live it seems.

Is being put to death by electrocution, firing squad, hanging or lethal injection a threat or punishment to someone who, for example, copulates into the mouths of severed heads?

White collar crime seems exempt from this category.

Nevermind that most serial killers are Caucasian, that Death Row inmates are largely of color, developmentally disabled, illiterate and, frequently enough, innocent.

Clearly, it is a complicated issue.

Capital punishment is a tragic, woefully insufficient and barbaric solution to a tragic, woefully insufficient and barbaric penal system problem. It’s wrong but I’m for it.


How Can You Mend A Broken Heart?

I don’t believe we can. We do find ways to live with it and move on, though. Some have found tequila and Valium helpful but I cannot recommend this method.


For Or Against: Same Sex Marriage?


One of the paradoxes of being an American citizen is our need to be recognized by family, friends and employers while also being respected for our cultural, spiritual, sexual, political and socio-economic differences.

One of many prescient issues facing gays, lesbians, bisexuals, the transgendered and transsexuals is how to unify and acknowledge the uniqueness of these particular groups’s experiences.


The concept and the reality of the American family is radically different than it was fifty years ago. What hasn’t changed with our new idea of family is love. Acceptance and tolerance is the key to civilized and modern society. Let us be the new traditionalists. Equal protection under the law is the American Way and I believe it is up to our people and government to protect these rights and freedoms for all.

I think it’s weird that queers would wish to wed but their ability as US citizens to do so is their civil right.

Is It Ever Reasonable To Play “The Race Card”?

For those of you playing at home, the “race card” is the phenomenon of alleging that someone has been given preferential treatment or is fundamentally better or worse at something, negative or positive, because of their ethnic makeup.

Asserting that all Asian people are bad drivers, all Jewish people are good with money or all Black people have rhythm (each of which I could cite many examples to the contrary) is racist.
To notice that someone is of color (or my favorite, non-White) is observant; fair. To opine, criticize or reject someone because of those differences is racist.

Racism is not a game but a sickness and anyone can catch it. And evidently it never goes away but it can be treated if caught early. Don't hate the player or the game.
Game over.