There is no fiscal cliff in the sense of a doomsday emergency.

How many times have you heard it said the economy is like an ocean liner, difficult to turn and slow to respond? And yet, now all of a sudden it's a little speedboat than can turn on a dime for purposes of the fiscal cliff.

Tax changes are not an emergency. Even if tax rates go up, they can be cut later with the cut made retroactive. No one will complain about getting a tax refund.

The debt isn't going to suddenly take on a new character between dec 31 and jan 1.

Sequestration is the only thing really pressing and the motivation to deal with that is very high so there will be bipartisan support for a fix, even if it's only postponing it a year.

The American economy will not boom in 2013. Conceivably, it will never boom again. We're a mature country, like England. Slow growth, low inflation, a stable political system... things could be worse.

I am trying to remember the old theological argument about the Goodness of the Creator. It went something along the lines of, is Goodness an attribute of the Creator, or are all His actions good because He is the Creator. Something for me to research, anyway.

I want to say the Pope prior to the one we have now argued that homosexuality wasn't inherently a sin, but defined it as a burden that was placed upon some individuals for reasons that only Providence knows. Since sex outside of marriage of any sort is a sin, and since only heterosexual partners can get married, by definition all homosexual activity is a sin.

I think I am remembering the argument correctly, though it's been awhile since I read the Catechism issued by Pope John Paul II

So I suppose the counter-argument is that love and sexuality are not interchangeable, and that being homosexual is not sinful, but being a practicing one is.

And as far as your search is concerned, have you looked at the Metropolitan Community Church?

If God were "good all the time" as some Christian denominations say, God would endorse, encourage, and protect the right of God's homosexual children to enjoy holy matrimony with all it's upsides and downsides. People using God as a vehicle to deny other humans the basic right to love are not believing that God is good all the time. As a matter of fact, people assuming that homosexuality is an aberration are effectively denying the hand in God in creating Earth and the human race. Why would God almighty create imperfect humans? If people say that children born with messed up DNA (trisome twenty-one or twenty-three) are part of God's plan, how do they then go and say that homosexuals are not part of God's plan? To me it's like this, until Christians acknowledge that homosexuals are part of the plan, all of Christianity is sadly misguided by false prophets who are really not understanding the holy spirit of goodwill to all mankind.
For the record, I am not Christian. Not for lack of trying, but for lack of finding a group of Christians who shares my belief that all humans are created equal. As long as Christian leaders create castes of desireds and undesireds, they can go to ... [that dark place].

I'll definitely give you this. I'm for labor unions, yet unions are essentially a "corporation." In fact, they attempt to be a monopoly, as all good corporations do. They should be allowed to flourish and succeed in their purpose- increasing he bargaining positions of laborers, both in and outside the union-- but no entity should be allowed to be a monopoly- let alone an enforced one.

Scabs and non union labor are competition, as I see it.

And a union can be competitive, by getting the best workers to join and (I think this is invisible to most) by discouraging their members from aggressive private bargaining. I have a boss that likes to haggle, to the point it seems dishonest. Imagine the admin cost if every employee were to haggle over every paycheck... No, I worked hard that day... NO, the time clock is wrong. Calculate that again. You did the withholding wrong. I did these, and they aren't on my duty roster...

So I agree with you, at least in theory. (Not well versed on exact facts of "Right to Work" laws.)

I'm not sure how successful I would be. My thoughts tend to be a bit rambling, and politically, I'm all over the spectrum.

Have you considered the idea of becominng an editorialist? You seem to be quite skilled at putting yours ideas on paper.