Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for October 16, 2012

The ultimate biological clock.

Whatever happened to Chase?

Mark is being incredibly rude, while Mike remains long-suffering with his friend.

Maybe he should find a new hobby, like space jumping.

I disagree about marriage being a fraud. Yes, there is the legal aspect. But on the human front, people have have a need to make formal commitments in relationships of that magnitude. You could do away with the legal and religious “requirements” and still people would marry. Let’s face it, they’re not required to marry now, and the tax benefits aren’t all that great.

I think they should both just go to sleep.

of course marriage is a fraud. it’s there to satisfy longings of connections that some feel are transient and impermanent. aka the seven year itch. man is not meant to be monogamous. procreating is our main purpose for life. primarily religion is there to sanctify the connection. just look at mormonism, Christianity and all the others faith based beliefs/religions, they are used as an excuse to satisfy that connection. in a state approved connection.

look at any right wing religion today, all bs and no substance. control issues, lol

not to say there aren’t those who find the right one and stay together “forever.” few and far between, in reality.

“The clock of life is wound but once, and no man has the power to tell just when the hands will stop, at late or early hour.

Now is the only time you own. Live, love, toil with a will. Place no faith in time. For the clock may soon be still."

The thought of two men getting married is just plain silly. Why don’t they go to a psychotherapist instead?

Chase was a dead ringer—facially and intellectually—for Edmund Burke.

Marriage is not a fraud. It’s a social-legal-religious contract to keep everyone in line.

When this first ran here, the discussion we had was about Mark’s hair turning gray.

We can only hope.

Ever noticed how the most anti-gay politicians often turn out to be involved in some sort of gay scandal? Hmm.

All this talk over a lonely guy who wants and needs companionship and thankfully is getting it from a thoughtful and kind friend.

Gee. Glad you think so, SkeptiCal.

Of course, I am certainly not the first person to have made the observation about hypocritical anti-gay politicians. And I have a feeling that I won’t be the last.

Elizabeth Taylor might have allowed for 8 happily (at least, permanently) married women, it wasn’t for her peers.

… burdens are so much easier to bare when shared even briefly. Sadly something our nation finds the need to debate …

It really doesn’t matter who you marry, because you’re sure to find out the next morning, that it was someone else.

Every citizen has the sole right to make decisions on how they live their lives. More importantly, It is not the government, YOU or anyone else’s job to make the decisions on who I marry, who I sleep with and the health decisions I make. Show me in the constitution where government has the ability to govern social rights.

I read or heard somewhere that often what we dislike the most in others are the flaws we won’t admit we have.

Do you actually think that a man who is working two jobs and still can’t afford proper healthcare for his children feels “free”?

Gag.

CALLING SAN FRANCISCO “FRISCO” IS AN INSULT!!!!! I think there’s one in Texas & one in Colorado, but not in California!!!!! BTW, I’m a native of SF but haven’t lived there in years (because of the current population), & still find the term insulting!!!!!!!

Jesus usually spoke in Aramaic, not Hebrew. However, the New Testament records Jesus as being competent in written Hebrew, making him extremely unusual, since he was not raised-and-schooled in a scriptorium. In fact, he was always exposing the existing scribes for “not knowing” the Hebrew-scripted Bible. At the time there also existed the Hebrew Oral Bible which, if anything, was considered as MORE authoritative than the Hebrew Script Bible. The two existed side by side. The Oral Hebrew Bible predated the Written Bible by hundreds if not thousands of years. Archaeological evidence is obscure. But Hebrew tradition has the Torah given to Moses on Sinai in BOTH oral and written forms.

I have to ask, though, what’s wrong with a nice, formal, pretty, well-attended marriage ceremony that has nothing to do with any form of government, whatsoever, on any level?

All forms of marriage between consenting adults should be legal.

KOCH INDUSTRIES WARNS 45,000 EMPLOYEES OF “CONSEQUENCES” IF THEY DON’T VOTE FOR REPUBLICANS

Rebecca Leber, News Report: The Koch brothers’ $60 million pledge to defeat President Obama — along with their political network’s $400 million spending — make them two of the most influential conservatives this election. Not content with their unprecedented influence in politics, the Kochs have also taken to influencing the votes of their employees. According to In These Times, Koch Industries sent 45,000 mailers to employees at Koch subsidiary Georgia Pacific, urging votes for Romney and other conservative candidates. The letter warns ominously of “consequences” for the workers if Republicans lose.

http://us.mc452.mail.yahoo.com/mc/welcome?.gx=0&.rand=34dbpc8ic48bs#pg=showMessage&sMid=0&&filterBy=&.rand=851039595&midIndex=0&mid=2_0_0_1_621171_AFbFtEQAAR5SUH2NqwEVwwtxycI&f=1&fromId=info@nationofchange.org&m=2_0_0_1_621171_AFbFtEQAAR5SUH2NqwEVwwtxycI,2_0_0_1_617258_AIzFtEQAAQ4EUH1BpwckxhSbOvY,2_0_0_1_616067_AJXFtEQAAICMUHynxA3IPUYIZoM,2_0_0_1_614733_AKfFtEQAAE9hUHyUdAldzhI7L2s,2_0_0_1_612685_AE3FtEQAARIrUHyG8gDnbzia4gU,2_0_0_1_600512AIPFtEQAAXaHUHnZig1OU3uvXn8,&sort=date&order=down&startMid=0&hash=c5923c6e748ed8dc48d0a3bc16179e6a&.jsrand=8201603

Not that they didn’t have corruption and an unholy alliance on a large scale when TR was alive, but we are in the digital age, with electronic voting machines and all kinds of technology which can be helpful and not so helpful if used improperly.

Mike is worried about the clock on the wall, not the damned biological one.

“Let’s not even mention ….”

No, mention them. What’s your point?

OASSBG, please note the following from the National Academy of Sciences regarding evidence for evolution.

“The evolutionary biologists who discovered Tiktaalik predicted that they would find fossils intermediate between fish and limbed terrestrial animals in sediments that were about 375 million years old. Their discovery confirmed the prediction made on the basis of evolutionary theory. In turn, confirmation of a prediction increases confidence in that theory.”

—National Academy of Sciences, http://www.nationalacademies.org/evolution/TheoryOrFact.html

Benghazi? Is that all you got? Then you’ve lost.The economy is recovering, and speculators are still playing with oil prices.

I’m listening to the Obama-Romney debate right now on National Public Radio (I don’t own a TV set), and I can tell you already that Obama is booting better behind than he did in their first debate.

Obama is doing well. Romney is still changing positions as of now even. Candy is stopping mitt’s filibusters.

I believe this post speaks eloquently to what religion in general, and fundamentalist christianity in specific, can do a human being. Remember Steven Weinberg’s dictum, “With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil—that takes religion.”On the other hand, it was pretty amusing to see JJ complain about Dylan’s “somewhat hateful ideas of life,” and then immediately launch into a hate-filled, name calling tirade against him. It pinned my irony meter!He said he hoped god blesses Dylan, but didn’t say which god……so, I’ll do it for him. Hey Dylan, ol’ buddy ol’ pal—may the Flying Spaghetti Monster drop a double helping of marinara sauce on your plate!