You know, maybe I should be delighted by Bush’s new “health care reform.” Domestic partner benefits are already considered taxable income. Maybe I should be thinking, “Finally. Straight people are getting a taste of their own medicine.” Maybe I should, but I can’t. In part because wishing misfortune on others just isn’t me. In part [...]

People often talk about when it was they first realized they were gay. I have explained elsewhere that I didn’t figure it out until I was around 20. That I couldn’t put a name to it doesn’t mean there were not experiences prior to that time that would have tipped off most any other individual [...]

Another example of a double bind is a teacher who urges his students to participate in class but gets impatient if one of them actually interrupts with a question or comment. Then a baffling thing happens. For some strange reason that scientists have yet to decipher, students tend not to speak up in classes in [...]

This is infuriating:

Clergy in New Jersey cannot be required to unite same-sex couples in civil unions, the state attorney general said in a decision that quieted the fears of some religious groups opposed to same-sex ceremonies.
Attorney General Stuart Rabner’s legal opinion, sent Thursday to the state registrar of vital statistics, came less than a month [...]

Over the last couple of years I have noticed that my anger tends to flare up at the slightest provocation. Most often I am simply bugged by some frustrating event, such as an anomalous bug in code that is resisting discovery and extinction, or some moron on the road who has obviously disengaged brain and/or [...]