I'm still here, and...

...I'm still alive; the field is just lying fallow for a while.

And the news is a little slow.

Same-sex marriage? Who cares what the Supreme Court decides? Proposition 8? Defense of Marriage Act? Again, who cares? As a friend of mine once told me, "Gay is here to stay..."

And gun control? I always thought it was hopeless. While I would be in favor of the strictest gun control legislation imaginable, I also know that the country as a whole just loves their guns. I may not understand it, but Americans would rather see twenty first-graders get slaughtered by someone with an assault rifle than have any constraints whatsoever put on their "freedoms."

That's enough for now. But I'll be back.