Despite the sudden shift in power in the New York State that saw the Republican Party seize control of the Senate, Democrat Senator Thomas Duane, who is THE politician behind the push for gay marriage in the Empire State, still sees an opportunity to have the legislation passed, but exactly to what lengths is Duane prepared to go to see the bill become law remains an unanswered question.
The New York Times Wednesday features a video op-ed piece that manages to highlight all that is so inherently tragic and wrong about the military ban on gays severing openly, and does so with a kind of sad grace.
A story, treated as news, about a man in Ohio who was arrested by police for wearing a woman’s one piece bathing suit in public, is beyond belief, if only because it is being treated not only as a local story, but an international one. The man who police admit never threatened anyone or anything, was said to make others feel “uncomfortable,” and he was charged with five counts of public indecency and three counts of menacing. Two things: one, I seriously hope the American Civil Liberties Union comes to the defense of Kevin Lee Miller and two, having been to rural Ohio, including Miami, what passes for fashion there I found indecent and menacing. Pajamas bottoms and shower slides as dinner wear in a restaurant? Seriously, if the police were to arrest all that I alone found menacing, well, I would be quite pleased.
A twenty foot long California Grey whale is using a Marina del Ray channel as a sort of rest area on its way from Mexico to Alaska, and so far residents of the area have been bewitched by the cutie, and officials are content to let the whale stay, but are anxious that it runs the risk of being hit by a passing boat.
San Francisco Board of Supervisors Tuesday, by a 9-2 vote, agreed to approve Mayor Gavin Newsome’s proposal to make discarding coffee grinds, pizza boxes, and orange rinds against the law, with the likelihood that fines will be levied. The law will give the city the most stringent recycling laws in America, and is in fact an effort to promote composting, while both limiting the reliance on landfills and reducing the greenhouse gas emissions the city produces. Not surprisingly, the reaction have been mixed, with some suggesting that the city and elected officials are threatening the constitutional rights of its citizens, although how behaving in a dangerous and irresponsible manner is a right guaranteed by law remains a mystery yet to be explained in ways intelligent and rational.
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