Bradley Manning wishes to become a woman.
Some commentators have already decided this is the most important issue concerning the case.
Not one of them can explain why, and that’s probably because it isn’t. It’s completely irrelevant.
That’s not stopping them. The loonies are calling Manning “a nut” and saying that this proves she was incompetent all along, because, you know, you’d have to be crazy to want to be transgender, right? The lack of psychological evidence to support such a thought be damned!
This is important in one sense — Manning faces many years in a men’s prison where she doesn’t belong.
Or maybe, you know, she should be pardoned since she was found not guilty of aiding the enemy.
Obama’s time machine is such a wonderful thing. According to certain people out there, he must have one in order to be able to:
1. Place his birth announcements in two Hawaii newspapers;
2. Design coins that have “In God We Trust” hidden on them years before he became President;
and the latest:
3. Not respond to Katrina fast enough, since that was clearly his fault even though Bush was President at the time.
Maybe we should bring back literacy tests.
There seems to be one big worry of certain Republican Obamacare opponents. What if people end up liking it?
After all, many of the same arguments against Obamacare were used against Social Security and Medicare (“It’s socialism! It’ll bankrupt us! We will lose all our freedoms and the world will be encased in fire and brimstone!”). Yet here we are, fifty years later, and most people seem to like those things just fine.
Does this man look worried?
Worse yet, Obamacare is working. Kids are not being thrown off their health care for pre-existing conditions. Young adults stay on their parent’s health care longer. People are getting refund checks from their insurance companies who had overcharged them before. And in states that are working to implement it, health care insurance costs have gone down.
Why, if this works, people might actually realize it’s not a bad idea, and may even (shudder) vote for Democrats!
So the GOP has gone into overdrive, banging its head against the wall, trying every damn thing they can think of to stop something that was passed years ago and has no chance of being repealed.
Because the horror of what may become of them if it works is too terrible to imagine.
“I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more luck I have.”
I always loved that quote. Turns out it’s not from Thomas Jefferson, even though it seems to always be credited to him, and seems to have first appeared in the 1940s.
But it’s true.
Often people are surprised at all the projects I have going — keeping a law practice, having novels published, running an international game, working in politics, writing two blogs — and ask how I find time for all of these things.
Well, I don’t know. I just do them. Often these same people tell me about all the great TV shows, video games, and movies I am missing, and while they are right, that’s just a choice I have made. I’d rather spend my time working on these other projects.
And it’s not like these things are hard work. I really like doing all these things or I wouldn’t do them.
I’m not trying to tell anyone how to have fun in their life. You do what makes you happy — that’s what life is all about.
But I know people who could write great novels or accomplish other great things, but they just don’t do it. They start a project and never finish.
Yeah, there really is work involved.
