Pretty and witty and gay

This blog entry isn't about astronomy. But I'm getting pretty tired of watching critical thinking going down the tubes in this world, and unfortunately it's happening everywhere I look. I've held back making political and social statements for many reasons, but I find these reasons getting thinner and paler as time goes on. If I don't say something now, then when? Tomorrow? Next week? A year from now? No. Now. Today as I write this there is a protest going on in my home town. Northern California is known for protests, of course, but this one threw me: it's against homosexuality. Against gays? In northern California? These narrow-minded twinkies are driving around in trucks with billboards and signs on them sporting the usual tired arguments against what they ironically think is deviant behavior. At one point a guy in one of these trucks was right behind me, and I considered ...