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I Grew Up In One Of The Most Socially Conservative Neighborhoods In Ohio, And My Parents Were Traditional Catholics. But In Her Old Age, My Mother Got Her Home Health Care From A Guy Who Was Gay, Who Was Wonderful To Her. Before She Died, She Rode A Float In The Cincinnati Gay Pride Parade.

There Have Been Tons Of Politicians Who Were Slow To Accept Equal Rights When It Meant Changes In The Established Social Order. Many Eventually Came Around, Admitted They Were Wrong, And Were Forgiven. But The Ones Who Actively Choose Hate-mongering Don't Ever Get A Pass.

First They Gerrymander Us Into One-party Fiefs. Then They Tell Us They Only Care About The Swing Districts. Then They Complain About Voter Apathy.

I Did Some Research Once On The Way People In The Past Imagined The Year 2000. They Tended To Picture The Things They Already Had Getting More Sophisticated - Flying Cars, Self-cleaning Windows. And The Folks In The Early 1900s Had A Wildly Optimistic Estimate Of The Future Of Pneumatic Tubes.

Back In The '70s When My Friends In California Were At Berkeley, In-state Tuition Was Around $700 A Year.