Love to all. Even you.

So, apparently if you search Google for “Gay Gorilla,” this site comes up in the top 10. What does this say about me, exactly?

Well, as you’ve probably guessed: I’m pro-gay. What this means is: I think the whole “gay issue” is one of right and wrong. Unlike nearly every other issue I can think of, I absolutely cannot see the other side’s point of view. If you think being gay is wrong, bad, evil, etc… then you are on the “wrong” side of the issue. If you believe that being gay gives you as much of a chance of being a wonderful person, a jackass, a doctor, a criminal, as any other person on the planet, well… you’re on the “right” side of the issue. Being gay is just being a person. Period. Finito. No discussion.

There is no in between.

Oh: I also own and sometimes wear a really cool gorilla suit. Thus, the “gay gorilla” search results. Although now I’m probably going to index at number one.

And no: I’m not a closeted gay dude. If I WAS gay, I’d be out there, baby! Safely, of course.

The vet called me an hour ago, which was very nice of him since it was his day off. I asked him the questions I needed to ask about Carter, and after I promised that I would not hold him to any of his predictions, he gave me some straight answers. He things Carter will be pretty good for the week we are away. But he thinks he’ll only have two or three weeks after that. It could, however, be as long as five or six.

I feel terrible about leaving. I mean, Carter LOVES staying with Holly, and our other dog will be with him… and the vet said it would be absolutely fine. And, of course, my father-in-law has been planning this trip for months and months and months… but I just feel terrible. Everyone on the trip knows that if Carter decompensates at all, I’ll be flying back immediately.

So I’m sad. And that’s pretty much all I can be. He’s a wonderful, emotional, dog. The vet is making an execption with Carter: when the time comes to put Carter down, he’ll come to our house to do it.

I will not let him suffer out of selfishness.

Let me change what I said about my new hire and other employee. For our needs RIGHT NOW, the new person is a much better fit than my current person. Although I think she (the current person) is incredibly nice and wonderful and a great asset.

It’s just that, in terms of generating what we need to generate, the new person is much more immediately and broadly skilled.

Poop.

I want to posit this: people who are anti-birth control are inherently pro-abortion. And I don’t mean pro-choice. Regardless of what they SAY, people who are against birth control are doing their utmost to promote increased abortions in this country.

Sad, but true.

Please don’t get me wrong. I don’t know enough about Cardinal Ratzinger to say he’s anything other than an enforcer of the anti-choice, anti-gay doctrine I’ve come to expect. But I think that, regardless of outcome, and regardless of whether Ratzinger was “forced into” the Hitler youth and did indeed desert the German army out of protest, electing a former Hitler Youth and WWW II German soldier to be Pope would be a disaster. What would that do to the Jewish folks (being a convert therefrom myself…), or to the Islamic world?