Get government out of the marriage business.
"Equality," as usual, is completely and entirely irrelevant to the issue at hand.
Government sanctioning particular groups of persons as "married" is merely a form of subsidization-- in this case, entitlements for the wedded couple.
If we recognize, as the sensible tend to do, that subsidization in its many forms is merely a reflection of democracy's failures, we can reject it as the appropriate answer. It's pandering to a particular group at the expense of others, and, more importantly, costing wasted resources in the form of government bureaucrats and managers to get an unneeded job accomplished.
While I reject government sanctioning opposite-sex marriages, I would loathe the situation yet further should government *also* sanction same-sex marriages. Two wrongs don't make a right.
Everyone comparing this to the torments of slavery needs to seriously re-think how they approach this issue.
No, I don't think this because the bible told me so.
No, I'm not a homophobe.
It's just not that hard, people.
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Monday, March 18, 2013
Explaining the Silence
So... the dorm privatization experiment has been, as you can probably tell, postponed.
Along with posts on the blog altogether.
Why?
I'm writing a book. And that takes some time.
The good news is that once the book is finished-- I expect it to conclude at ~230 pages-- you may not ever have to hear from me again. Just a quick read-through and you'll be all caught up on the Ovesonian outlook on life. Granted, the completed page count remains at just shy of 16, so that could be a little while.
The bad news is that all of my time-- between the book, school, and other life-activities-- is gone, where I used to have enough for typing blog articles, or performing wacky tests on communities of real people.
One solution is to switch to audio-posts, because that takes less time.
Another is to update the blog on my book, and ask for feedback.
Unless the readership vocally expresses a preference for the latter, I'll probably dabble in the former sometime this week.
Along with posts on the blog altogether.
Why?
I'm writing a book. And that takes some time.
The good news is that once the book is finished-- I expect it to conclude at ~230 pages-- you may not ever have to hear from me again. Just a quick read-through and you'll be all caught up on the Ovesonian outlook on life. Granted, the completed page count remains at just shy of 16, so that could be a little while.
The bad news is that all of my time-- between the book, school, and other life-activities-- is gone, where I used to have enough for typing blog articles, or performing wacky tests on communities of real people.
One solution is to switch to audio-posts, because that takes less time.
Another is to update the blog on my book, and ask for feedback.
Unless the readership vocally expresses a preference for the latter, I'll probably dabble in the former sometime this week.
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