I just found out that my cousin has been deployed to Iraq.  He’s a Marine.  I won't reveal his name, unit or rank, but suffice it to say that we are all very concerned about him and all of the other soldiers — American, British and others — fighting in a distant land to protect and defend the values — and oil — we hold dear.  My thoughts are with them all.

In what will hopefully be a decisive blow to governments legislating bedroom activities between consenting adults, the US Supreme Court is hearing a case on Texas' sodomy law (Section 21.06 of the Texas penal code, otherwise referred to as the Texas Homosexual Conduct Law).  I have always believed that what happens in the privacy of your home between consenting adults is of absolutely no concern to the government — any government.  It's time for governments to stop legislating morality and bedroom activities and start dealing with matters of greater importance.  Here's hoping the Court overturns the law and brings this ugly chapter of American society to a close.

The men and women of the military put their lives on the line each and every day to protect America, its people, and the freedoms which we enjoy.  Whether or not you support the policies that put them in harm's way, they are doing their jobs and readily putting themselves in the line of fire to protect our country (that is, by definition, what they are doing in response to orders)>

Please show your support for our troops by going here and doing as much as possible for those in uniform.  If nothing else, send an email showing you support them.

My roommate and I are getting ready to move, so updates may become sporadic over the next month.  Our plans are to move sometime around the end of April (give or take a week or two), but we'll probably spend much time packing and tending to all that move-related crap that simply must be done (change of address, setting up new and scheduling termination of current utilities, scheduling movers, carrying odds and ends to the new "crib" as time permits, and so on).  I'll make every attempt to keep the site updates coming on a regular schedule, but don't be surprised if I seem to vanish for a day or two at a time.  There are times when the real world takes precedence over the virtual world.

I finally finished the site newsletter application and have it up and running now.  You can sign up for the weekly newsletter by clicking on the Newsletter link in the Main block in the top left corner of the page, or you can go link removed.  The newsletter will be a summary of the new articles from that week and a list of the last seven Random Thoughts.  That may change in the future as I come up with additional content to include, but I think that's good enough for now.

Be sure to sign up!  The next newsletter goes out Sunday, March 30.

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