Politics IS serious business, and drag queens and gay pride parades do absolutely nothing to convince the general voting public of the gay activists' causes. As a group gays have no political sense whatsoever.
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One of the most bizarre stories of the past couple of weeks is the case of the woman who had octuplets, yet she already had six children previously. This woman is a divorced graduate student who is living with her mother.
Having 14 children is odd enough, but apparently these multiple births came about through IVF and raises all kinds of ethical questions going far beyond mere "choice":
The hospital where the octuplets were born - Kaiser Permanente in Bellflower, California - has said by the time the woman came to them she was already three months pregnant.
During an interview on CBS's The Early Show, Michael Tucker, scientific director of Georgia Reproductive Specialists, said: 'As the story's unfolded and it's gone from the potential use of just fertility drugs, or misuse thereof, to actual, apparently, IVF (in-vitro fertilization) with transfer of embryos, this is just remarkable to me that any practitioner in our field of reproductive medicine would undertake such a practice.'
The host asked Dr Tucker, who has a doctorate in reproductive physiology.
'Had she walked into a fertility clinic and said, "Listen, I've got other children, the oldest seven, the youngest two," is there any ethical responsibility on the clinic's part to say, "I'm not going to treat you," or, "You know what? This is not a good idea"?''
Dr Tucker's reply was unequivocal: 'I'm stunned, actually, that a clinic would proceed to treat a patient in this circumstance.'
And it gets better, for the woman, Nadya Suleman-Guiterrez, is said to have worked in a fertility facility.
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Get ready for some possible historical revisions regarding John Dean and Watergate.
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Merle Haggard is bouncing back from a bout with lung cancer.
He has this to say about the new president:
He confesses "I didn't vote for Obama," but can't deny the political and emotional sea change that the Illinois senator's ascension to the chief executive's office represents. "We're probably guilty of living up to the Constitution for the first time in the history of America, which is really something to say," Haggard says softly, looking a little battle-scarred in his Army-surplus jacket, black T-shirt, blue denim jeans and golden-brown ostrich boots.
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