stallioncornell

Thepolitical landscape is so deeply depressing that I find it hard to muster up any kind of formal response to it. The Federal Government now owns the largest car manufacturer in the world solely so it can prop up a bloated union. The trillion dollar stimulus that was passed to keep unemployment below 8% has ... Read more

Inmy senior year at USC, a weird, artsy woman spent a couple of weeks as the substitute teacher for our acting class. (I know what you’re thinking– a weird, artsy acting teacher?! What are the odds?!) She was not just any acting schmo - she was a regular on the “New WKRP in Cincinnati.” ... Read more

Abouttwenty years ago, Pioneer Theatre Company in Salt Lake produced a truly memorable version of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet that I very much enjoyed. Many modern Shakespeare productions attempt to "update" the material with weird modern references, and I almost always find that distracting. This version used authentic Elizabethan costumes and sets, and it was ... Read more

Iwatched The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien last night. I don’t often watch late night television, although that wasn’t always the case. I was a huge Letterman fan back when Letterman was funny on Late Night. I used to tape Late Night, watch it the next morning, and steal all his material for my busy ... Read more

TheNew York Dolls came to town on Saturday night. I didn’t get a chance to go, but it caused me to reflect on one of the huge missed opportunities of my life. It was the summer of 1990. I had just finished an essentially wasted year at the University of Utah and decided to return ... Read more

So- four posts in four days! I'm back, baby! Nothing like all gay marriage all the time to bring a moribund blog back to life. Andy and "longwinded passionate woman" have both responded effectively to Abbot of Arbroath's most recent comment, but I wanted to weigh in, too. So here goes: Abbot begins:

thansk for

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Continuingmy discussion with POUNDS from yesterday...

So, absent the religious belief that the purpose of marriage is to procreate (and your very interesting assertion that it serves to “tame” the beast that males essentially are), what function is served by having the civil law decide who to include or exclude?

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Iknow that this thing has been discussed to death, but POUNDS raises some wonderful points, and I'd like to respond.

I am not really anxious to argue any side of this issue….. it is not very high on my list of concerns. And I certainly do NOT consider you to be a homophobe or a

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I'mastonished - and gratified - that today, the California Supreme Court recognized its responsibility to uphold the law. The vast majority of my Facebook friends are predictably aghast, and the whole issue is likely to return to the ballot box, where, eventually, defenders of traditional marriage will lose. This issue has moved beyond the realms ... Read more

You'llnotice the title of this post is EAGLES in concert, not THE Eagles in Concert. According to Steve Martin, Glen Frey made it very clear that the name of the band was supposed to be Eagles, and that no one member was an Eagle. That kind of bothered me, as it meant that pretty much ... Read more