The Binary Circumstance

I’ve been having a problem with my 2002 Mazda B4000 truck.

When I would move the automatic gear shift lever through the gears, it would blow the #2 fuse. At first it was intermittent and I could just replace the fuse with a cheap 10 amp fuse. But then it got so it happened every time I put it into drive. The #2 fuse controls the backup lights, the O/D switch, the passenger airbag switch, and the blower for the heater, defroster and air-conditioner.

I researched the problem on the Internet and found my solution at Sparky’s Answers, a blog devoted to electrical problems in various makes of cars and trucks. The post refers to a 2001 Ford Ranger but a Mazda truck is basically a Ford Ranger in Mazda skin.

Problem solved!

Greta Christina explains why she is so angry in a very long but very good post.

As I’ve said before, I dislike the term atheist because it suggests that those who don’t believe in God are without something, which in our culture, they should have. They are defined in relation to theists. They made the rules so they set themselves up as the standard by which everyone else is judged.

It really comes down to rational v. irrational. A rational person requires evidence for his/her beliefs, an irrational person doesn’t.

This article from the Huffington Post may rank as the most ridiculous commentary I’ve read in a long time. Patrician Zohn makes a comparison between President Bush and the falsely-accused Duke lacrosse players that demonstrates how fashionable white male bashing is in liberal land.

While finding the lacrosse players guilty of too many parties, too much entitlement and their parents guilty of being rich and “smug” while defending their kids on TV, she downplays the outright crimes of others involved in the case then ends with this:

Really, it all boils down to feeling that the other person doesn’t matter as much as you do.

Believe it or not, she’s speaking to the lacross players, their parents and Bush.

What about the prosecutor?

What about the stripper and her false accusations?

Being a frat boy is not a crime. Using the criminal justice system to ruin innocent people’s lives is.

A more fitting comparison would have been between Bush, Mike Nifong and the stripper.

The fact is those frat boys just don’t matter as much as Patricia Zohn’s entitlement to pick and choose only those facts which support her strained analogy, just as Bush selectively chose facts to support his case for war, resulting in the deaths of thousands of innocent people.

While eating a salad at a Capitol Hill restaurant this evening I read Dan Savage’s column in The Stranger.

Savage quoted Joe.My.God who helped set up a fund to help out Mike Jones.

Jones said in an interview that he was broke and didn’t have a job since he’d given up hustling. I was shocked that no gay businesses had offered him a job and that gay organizations, especially legal organizations, had not offered him any help since he had accomplished so much, at great personal risk. Given how collectivist most gay groups are in their thinking, it is probably hard for them to accept that one man could accomplish so much on his own.

What if Jones had said, “So what if Ted Haggard is lying to everybody? It get paid. It’s not my problem that he’s conning all the Christians in his congregation and everybody else as well, including his friends in the White House.”

Details about how to contribute to Mike Jones using his e-mail (Massageandmuscle AT aol DOT com) and PayPal are in the Joe.My.God. post and Dan Savage’s post.

I’m surprised he doesn’t have a book deal yet. But I sent him $20 just because I think he’s very courageous and also because his outing Haggard gave me so much material that is right up my alley.