"Insight of the Moment"

I had the following posted as the "Insight of the Moment" for the last few days, but I felt that it deserved to be front and center. I think that it's important to be reminded that the root of behavior such as this is not homosexuality in and of itself but, rather, the damage caused by repressing it.

"I have nothing for this ruined ex- politico ex-senator ex-nice family man Larry Craig. Never met him. Never heard of him before. I don't care a fig about him. I don't care about Idaho either. I don't even know where that is, other than you get to Chicago and make a left. Aside from a baked potato topped with sour cream, who-the-hell ever makes mention of Idaho? So, I have no horse in this race. It's just that in my limited, not-very-smart view, his guilt is primarily hypocrisy. The rest of the crime, if in fact Craig is gay, is of our making. The tawdry solicitation leaves us partly to blame. Draping homosexuality in shame is what forces the weak to hide and lie and rail against it publicly in order to cover themselves privately. A guess would be he spoke and voted and campaigned against it in fear for himself. To draw a curtain around his own being. Those Enron guys probably didn't start out bilking billions. They started small. A little here, a bit more there. It's always the first step. Suddenly you're in it up to your eyeballs. Same with this shivering little scared mess of a man. Terrified of his own self, he early on made one statement. Then maybe had to back it up. Then he maybe enlarged it. All in mortal dread that his innermost voice might make itself heard. Possibly someday, if all of us, each with our own demons, could wash away the stain of whatever tints our sexuality, this pathetic soul would never have picked a bathroom for a bedroom." - Cindy Adams [From Towleroad]

"Queen of Green"

Anita Roddick passed away last night. She was the founder of the Body Shop and a terrific example of someone who was way ahead of her time. The world's a better place for her having been in it. On a day when we sadly remember people for how they died, it's nice to remember someone for how she lived.

Read more about this remarkable lady in the Times.

Two Months

I'm back. I'm not going to pretend to make any promises about how long I'm going to keep this up, but I felt like writing for the first time in a long while. Maybe it's because I had my first truly shitty week at work. Maybe because I felt a need to share that I got my socks knocked off by this "special comment" by Keith Olbermann:



Or maybe it's because I miss writing this blog. I used to write much, much more when I was in college, and even while I was teaching, and I definitely missed it during law school. I know this isn't much, but at least it's something. Meh.

Watch the Olbermann clip. And let's see if this is a one-off or, to invoke High School Musical 1, "the start of something new...."