Hammer Mill Days

Step one: fill the little box with letters. It's a letter box! Step two, check your work on step one. Step three: press "publish" and watch the blue smoke come out. You are now a "blogger", Charlie! All you need now are decipherable opinions. Well, here we are at the mill, still waiting for the next episode of our Podcast THIS IS BIG GREEN to roll off the back of a truck. Late again. Must be short on key ingredient this month. Actually, as I pointed out last week, the main ingredient is work on our parts, which is rare indeed. A jem of great price ... that price being the sweat off of our collective brows. Work, work, work ... that's what a podcast is all about. The internet is a slave-driver! Small wonder we chose to outsource its production to some nameless third world country. Working through a social media broker, we have been assured of a good and reliable product, voiced by people who sound exactly like Matt and I, their Indonesian accents just bare...

No denying that last week was a big week in the world of Supreme Court jurisprudence. While I am no legal scholar, here are my two-cents on a few of the decisions: Obergefell v. Hodges. The Court decided that the protections associated with marriage can no longer be denied to gay couples. About freaking time. It always struck me as ironic that we should forbid marriage to a group of people who seem to want it more than anyone else. Though I'm happy with mine, I am no firm believer in marriage as an institution. I think its only value - and this is my opinion, of course - is that it enables you to enjoy certain benefits granted by the government - tax advantages, visitation rights, property rights, etc. That's the way things work; that's the way our society is arranged. Given all that, couples of all sorts should be allowed to marry. Marriage equality is seen by some evangelical Christians as a threat to their beliefs. Those who confer marriage licenses in some officia...