:: I Believe Marriage is Love

I'm totally in awe of Keith Olbermann's comments on Prop 8 in California. He's usually a bit crass and loud, but this is heartfelt, honest, and apt.

He points out that if we'd not previously "redefined marriage", our President Elect Barack Obama's parents could not have married in about one third of the states in the US at the time they did.

And guess who were the ones yelling the loudest (i.e. "each with their own kind" ~the bible) and protesting the right of blacks to marry whites as late as 1967? Do I really need to tell you?

"Spread happiness -- this tiny, symbolic symantical grain of happiness."
~Keith Olbermann

:: Balloon Religion

(Post copied over from my old blog--a primer on my thoughts about religion... Didn't bring over the comments. Feel free to disagree, just at least be funny.)

So in February my kids got a balloon while we were out somewhere, I don't remember where it was though. A week or so later, it was still alive and well.  Wow I thought, that's lasting a long time, and I took a picture of it for my daughter (she likes pictures of anything). This turned out to come in handy...

Then I went out of town for nearly two weeks and, of course, forgot about the balloon. When I got back home I was surprised however to notice that it was still up in the corner of my office floating near the ceiling. "Geez", I thought, "what kind of chemical are they using in those things these days?" I snapped another picture.

The next week, I snapped another shot of the -- still floating -- balloon. I started to wonder if perhaps this balloon was safe in the house. What kind of freakish chemical was keeping the balloon in the air??

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