Author Archives: heine911

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 1,300 times in 2014. If it were a cable car, it … Continue reading →

Phoenix holds its Pride festival not in June, when everybody else does, but in April. It’s just too hot around these parts to have it in the summertime. Anymore, when people in “the community” are asked if they’re going to … Continue reading →

Life is filled with little epiphanies. Things that make us go, “Ahhh!” I keep stumbling onto them. Okay, Lord, I’m listening. First, there was the slimy cockroach-swarm over at Gay Patriot that basically drove all decent people away from that … Continue reading →

Dignity U.S.A.’s Phoenix chapter has just adopted a name. We are now St. Damien’s of Molokai. We’ve brought Hawaii to the Grand Canyon State! We have a few members who hail from the Aloha State. They’re very nice people, and … Continue reading →

H.L. Mencken famously said, “Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.” The Sage of Baltimore was right about a hell of a lot of things, and that was certainly one of them. Or as Houndentenor, an … Continue reading →

Well, my relatives in Minnesota must be happy to know that the Rover has found lutefisk on Mars. What a wondrous Christmas tradition! Even the little green people (and the statue of Elvis) love it. A Merry Christmas to one … Continue reading →

This is a fairy tale. Unfortunately, it also happens to be true. Independent thinkers are familiar with visitors from Fantasyland, because we encounter them frequently. There are two distinct kingdoms within it: Right-wingia and Left-wingia. Each kingdom shelters its citizens … Continue reading →

The current brouhaha over “Duck Dynasty” is getting the predictable treatment, both in the largely-liberal mainstream media and in its right-wing equivalent. Those who aspire to wield the power of big government over the peasants must, by all means, control … Continue reading →

“When people are two-faced, the only thing you’ll know for sure is that you can’t trust either of them.” — Doe Zantamata (author, artist and photographer) I’ve noticed something really interesting about the stuff many “progressives” say about libertarians. They … Continue reading →

The strategy of avoiding the GOP table in the cafeteria has worked SO well for libertarians. Not to mention for all those other social liberals who’ve shunned the Republican Party because…eeeew! Those social conservatives have cooties! I’ll tell you who’s … Continue reading →