NPR, earthquake in china

It's a disaster, so every news agency and reporting outlet is spending time covering it. And most of the NPR coverage is quite good. Lots of behind the scenes stories about political spin and the like. They are also describing some of the conditions faced by the survivors.

But, if I hear one more time about the children trapped (killed) by their collapsing school house I'll go on another multi-month boycott of KPBS.

I find no compelling reason to think that young people are any more important than anybody else. There just seems to be a common story that children and old people are helpless therefore "we" should be more concerned for and about them.

Bullshit.

I hated that conversation when I was a child and I'm beginning to hate it again as I get older.

WOWZER

The California Supreme Court handed down a 120 page, 4-3 decision which boils down to this: disallowing same sex marriage does not provide equal protection required by the California Constitution. They also said that granting marriage rights to same sex couples was a better solution than denying marriage to all Californians.

This is a great day for California. It remains to be seen if California will have a great day in November when we vote on a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage.

The dissenting opinion was thinly-veiled bigotry. The three justices who dissented must be embarrassed by the obvious sham that stands as their opinion.

Marriage: Not just heterosexual privilege any more!