Post #300

This is my 300th blog post since I started it around six years ago.  As with post #200, let's take a look at some of what I wrote about over the past 100 posts spanning about two years:

I wrote with more practical, real life advice for high school and college graduates.

I wrote about a variety of investment issues, client-approved of course.

I wrote about how a political lackey masquerading as a university president ended VEISHEA.

I wrote more about the best songwriters and lyrics from yesteryear.

I wrote about how pop culture should start ignoring Lolo Jones, well before pop culture came to the same conclusion.

I wrote about major cities I visited.

I wrote more about taxpayers getting fleeced, and the primary non-profit fleecers.

I wrote about how medical doctors are self-centered, not patient-centered.

I wrote about what turning 50 years old meant to me, in a mostly non-philosophical way.

I wrote about a variety of ways that people / politicians / governments refuse to accept the evolution of social issues, such as how dumb it is to oppose both medical marijuana and decriminalization of marijuana, and how dumb it is to allow 2,000+ year-old religious doctrine control all of their secular decisions.

I wrote a little bit about a lot of other things, all in the name of getting things off my mind.

Still More Unthankfulness

It's time for the 5th annual edition of my Thanksgiving-time list of things for which I am not thankful. You can get to the trail of prior lists here.

As usual, this list is in no particular order:

Sub-zero weather in November.

Iowa allowing smoking in its casinos, when it's banned everywhere else.

Government shutdowns.

Parents who don't hold their children accountable.

The botched heathcare.gov website.

Humble-braggers.

Bad football played by the teams for which I am a fan.

Ted Cruz.

Twerking.

Those still in denial about social movements that are irreversible (e.g. gay marriage, marijuana legalization).

Anyone who cares more about what I do, than they care about what they do.

Our Unstoppable Social Evolution

In the past week, there were at least 3 major news stories (two national and one local) about same-sex couples and the gay lifestyle.  How can I refuse to write about them?

The two national stories were U.S. Supreme Court cases, heard on back-to-back days.  One case was about the right of gays to marry, the other about gay marriage rights as they relate to the Clinton-era federal Defense Of Marriage Act.

The local story was another attempt by extreme Iowa Republican Party conservatives (I'm not sure there's another kind right now), to remove the governor's name from an anti-bullying conference.  Why?  Because they believe "anti-bullying" is a cover for promoting the gay agenda.  Yes, they actually think this out loud.  Not surprisingly, the effort is being led by WOITH Bob Vander Plaats, who can't be disgraced enough.

Regardless of how any of this turns out in the short term, in the long term it's once again time to remember a basic rule in America:  Society evolves on social issues.  There's no stopping it.

When we recognize something that hurts/helps society, we take action to disallow/allow it, respectively.  It may take years, or decades, but eventually, we get it right. 

It's going to take a while, maybe even another generation, but legislation allowing and expanding same-sex marriage in all states is going to happen.  Take it from someone who lives in a state where gay marriage has been allowed for years now - we've figured out it doesn't hurt us, it only helps us.

And so society evolves.