Tag: politics
Listen, I try to steer away from politics here — but these have been a tense few weeks. From left to right in the picture below: my uncle Robert, my mother, and my father. My uncle was a pilot in WWII, my father wrote code — he never spoke much…
An image of the 1992 Los Angeles riots from the Los Angeles Times: I think this was down on Normandie – the civil unrest lasted six days. Things got quiet when the National Guard was called in. I don’t write a political blog, however, there are factors even I can’t…
Oral Arguments: 12-144.exe – 12-144a.pdf. Addressing the merits of the case during the first of two days of arguments on same-sex marriage, Justice Kennedy voiced sympathy for the children of gay and lesbian couples. “There’s some 40,000 children in California that live with same-sex parents,” he said, as the justices…
By David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times January 26, 2013, 7:20 p.m. WASHINGTON — Marriage should be limited to unions of a man and a woman because they alone can “produce unplanned and unintended offspring,” opponents of gay marriage have told the Supreme Court. By contrast, when same-sex couples decide…