It's figureoutable

About 20 years ago I was working on the student newspaper at the University of Puget Sound. One of the things we spent a lot of time writing and talking about was "divestment."

The word probably doesn't mean much to folks today, but at that time, it was flammable. It meant arguments, editorials, speeches and even a sit-in or two. You see some folks at the university were trying to get the Board of Trustees to divest from South Africa. They were trying to join the crowd of institutions who were trying to put economic pressure on South Africa to end Apartheid.

So what made me think of this?

This week, South Africa took the first step toward becoming the fifth country in the world to legalize gay marriage. South Africa, a country that during my formative years was the poster child for oppressive, bigoted cultures, has taken a step that our supposedly free country can't seem to take.

The world -- even the most stikingly backward part of it -- moves forward. My country moves backward. It's very disheartening -- to say the least.

If there are two things - two damn things - that I should be able to count on in this world, it's the love of my beautiful wife and that I should be able to eat my Cinnabon cinnamon roll in a clockwise direction (at least in the Northern hemisphere). Last I checked, my wife still loves me.

But, what about number two? Listen to this: Today, I innocently go to one of the eighteen the Cinnabon stands in the Minneapolis Airport and I innocently buy a roll and I innocently sit down to eat it and I innocently begin to eat it in a clockwise direction. And what do you suppose I find? That's right. It's a counter-clockwise roll. A counter-clockwise roll in the Northern hemisphere!

I KNOW there has to be a Cinnabon corporate standard. Every Cinnabon I've eaten in my life I have eaten in a clockwise direction (I've never been in the Southern hemisphere.)

I should write a letter.

How is is that Tom DeLay isn't in jail.

Oh wait. I found out today from Carl Rove that this is all Democratic Party desperation.

And I suspect he would tell me that this was principled investigation.

So, just to be clear, a 6 year, $52 million investigation bought the american people oral sex in the White House and a lie about it under oath. For which the liar was impeached (but not convicted.)

Mr DeLay, according to CNN, "has been dogged in recent months by new reports about his overseas travel funded by special interests, campaign payments to family members and connections to a lobbyist who is under criminal investigation." Oh. And I think he's been lying too.

But I'm a Democrat so I'm "desperate." Carl Rove says so. (I mean it's not like he's been lying about sexual indiscretion. At least not by commission... or. Wait. Hmm...)