Same Sex Marriage and Politics in 2012

It’s amazing to me that we’re even having this conversation. Even the libertarians get it. People who want to enter into a marriage partnership should not be discriminated against by the government. It’s that simple. The fact that same-sex marriage was still an issue in 2012 will be laughed at by people in 2050. (courtesy of mafcd via visual.ly)

Source: Marriage and Family Counseling Degrees

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The Anti-Conspiracy Theory Conspiracy

I always find it funny when die-hard conspiracy theorists moan and groan about how stupid people are for believing conspiracy theories [CTs] that don’t happen to fit the favored CTs’ favored group-think. You know the type. “Our CT is the real truth, your CT is just crazy.”

Blogosphere case in point for best illustration of this phenomenon is Daily Kos, a progressive political site dedicated to electing Democrats, damning Republicans, and spreading the ridiculous idea that all things that might be conspiracies cannot actually BE conspiracies because that would mean the participants in those conspiracies know what’s real, agree amongst themselves to pretend that reality is not real, and are able to keep the reality out of the press and public sphere of knowledge. No one, apparently and according to the Kos powers that be, knows that much about anything.

Of course, that site is the biggest promulgator of the idea that the Bush administration plotted to start a war in Iraq by telling lies to the American public, which is a conspiracy (and not particularly theoretical, given that it actually did happen). And that the whole justification of torture of prisoners that began in 2002 (before said justifications were drafted by the lawyers tasked with justifying) was about gaining false confessions of a link between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. Which would be a conspiracy, even though such things do not exist.

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Hope and Habitat for Humanity: Tough Times Holiday Report

20th Annual Christmas Jam Report

Season’s Greetings, Earthlings! Warren Haynes’ (Allman Bros., Government Mule, lots of etc’s.) 20th Anniversary Christmas Jam this year had the usual “pre-jam” in local pubs – locals mostly – and the main event went to 2 nights due to the all-star lineup. More musicians than you can shake a stick at, and more participants than any one venue could hold. So this year there were art exhibits, a film festival, day-jams at those local pubs, and two long, long nights at the A-ville Civic Center Arena – big enough to park all the tour buses, Winnebegos and Priuses before you even got to the curtained-off green room & bar or the musician’s dinner, drinks and rehearsal area. I’m guessing this is where they park the lions, tigers and elephants when the circus is in town…

The Citizen-Times covered the full event in all its glory from the starting gate – we love our Warren, just as we loved our Mr. Moog. We started early on as well, back when Warren was just beginning his long career in charity and memorial concerts/jams, which he figured he could do because… he’s Warren Haynes. In 1990 we did our first Haynes jam at the Jacksonville Beach Pavillion, a memorial for Lynard Skynard / Rossington-Collins guitarist Allen Collins. Entertained the young’uns before the show with the basic juggling and magic. Not exactly respectable musicianship (we have no musical talent at this end of the family), but it does get us in free. Mostly because there IS (or, sadly, was) musical talent at other ends of the family.

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