fiction and musings from a gay black dude with delusions above his station
There’s a Gumby cartoon that has stuck with me over the decades. It’s called “The Small Planets.” Gumby decides that he’s sick of being bossed around, told to do this chore and that chore, so he hops into a book about planets, dons a spacesuit, and speeds off in a flying saucer to the asteroid…
Those who use religion as a bludgeon to pummel anyone who fails to follow their dogma are getting desperate. Despite years of proselytizing, society Just Won’t Get It. States continue to grant marriage equality rights. Courts continue to overturn anti same-sex marriage laws. And to make matters worse, the dreaded Affordable Care Act had made…
I have a jingle going through my head that may or may not be from an old Boy Scouts ad. It went something like, “Join the Boy Scouts of America Today, and together we can form a better USA!” A manly male chorus sang it a cappella, with an echo, giving it an almost hymn-like…
Equality Matters has all of the facts. Chick-fil-A founder S. Truett Cathy created the charitable wing of his chicken enterprise, the WinShape Foundation, in 1984. The lion’s share of WinShape’s money has come from Chick-fil-A — over $8 million in 2010 alone, reports Equality Matters. That same year, they doled out a generous portion to…
