Today Gay Marriage, Tomorrow Polygamy

The rapture exuded by many in our society around the Supreme Court's decision on gay marriage was remarkable.  Given all that is going on the world - ISIS running wild, Greece near default, massive death due to heat in Pakistan - you'd think gay marriage was the most important thing in the world.

Perhaps it is, because this is the start of legal polygamy in the United States.

Bull, you say?  Consider the following:

• LGBT stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender - all considered normal sexual constructs in human physiology
• Bisexuality, at its definition, means an attraction to at least two different people (one male, and one female)
• Since bisexuals can't choose who they love, and since they love at least two people, who are we to judge their desire to manifest that love via traditional marriage?

One can't refute the points made above.  You just can't, hence polygamy is coming, and none of us should feel shocked when it does.

Personal aside - I believe gay people are born that way, and that they deserve the protections afforded to folks that are married.  Period.  However, I also believe that there are some nefarious folks in our society that want to see our institutions torn down, and push for changes solely for the chaos it causes.  It is that latter part, I believe, that will continue to push the frontier of the definition of "marriage" until such a time in which it no longer has a constructive definition.

I may be wrong, but I don't think so.

Conservation Participation by Type of Bird Hunter

Ultimate Upland News recently published an analysis which showed the percentage of participation and membership in a given conservation group based on the type of bird hunted.  Here are their findings:

Some points of interest based on this analysis:

• Good for duck hunters!  Nearly half are involved in some type of membership, however...
• ...it is not clear how multiple memberships are treated.  For example, I am a member of Ducks Unlimited, Delta Waterfowl, and the Wisconsin Waterfowl Association.  Given how I think these were tallied, I would count for 3 guys
• Upland hunters have a ways to go.  The fact that Pheasants Forever only has 125,000 members with nearly 1.5 million people hunting pheasants in the US is a flat shame.  

Between changes in agricultural practices, government programs, public land usage, and other impacts, the environment for game birds in the US is shrinking.  Sometimes the only things standing in the way of additional reductions of habitat are these conservation organizations.  If you hunt birds, it is incumbent on you to support one or more of these groups.

Saturday Song Share: Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of this Country

Fun song from a neat little band:

Remember the Alamo?

We are living in scary times.  With politicians and leftists screaming for a "whitewashing" (pun intended) of our history via flag banning, statue removal, and the like, one wonders where all of this ends.  Self-hatred of US history has long been a rumored trait of the far left, and we're now seeing it on full display.  And that hatred does not stop with the Civil War.

I believe that we'll see two different things here coming up in fairly short order:

• Like Charleston was the site of the first shots being fired in the Civil War, I believe that the Charleston shootings and subsequent calls to actions are going to be the start of what will be a long and brutal fight for slave reparations.  And I do believe that when we get to that point, it will quite literally tear our country apart.
• Leftists, emboldened by the progress their seeing on the Confederate flag front, will continue their aggressive affront toward "cleaning up" US history.  It won't stop with the Civil War - it will go much further than that

Hence, if my prediction is correct, the phrase "Remember the Alamo" might not be just politically incorrect, it might be downright racist, and verboten.   

Golf Swing Analysis App - 3Bays GSA Pro

The power of our mobile devices is simply stunning.  Here's the latest iteration:



Pretty amazing stuff, and takes the concept of "wearables" to a whole other level.

Would love to be able to try this.

First Day of Work

On January 15 of this month, my position was eliminated and I lost my job.  It has been a hard slug, but I landed a job about a month ago, and am starting my new position today.

I've held a job most of my life.  I started with a paper route when I was 8, and worked pretty much the entire time through high school and college.  I've taken my work seriously; regardless of the job I held.  I always felt it important to provide a return on the investment that my employer was making on me.  

Today, that engagement begins anew with a new employer in a whole new location.  And I am so ready to go back to work that I can't wait.  While the work involved in a finding a new job (and make no mistake in that - it is damned hard work) and activity around some consulting I did helped bide my time, these past couple of weeks since my offer has been received and things have been brought to a stop on the job search have been long, long days.

I have a lot more to offer somebody, and I look forward to returning to a position as a productive member of society.  

Here we go...

Fox's Coverage of US Open Terrible

Mrs. YDP and I spent last Sunday watching the great finish at the US Open.  Unfortunately, Fox's coverage was so damned distracting and frustrating, it nearly ruined the event.

A couple of things really got to me:

• The first three hours of coverage wasn't.  It was nothing more than a Super Bowl pre-game show.  Despite dozens of golfers on the course, and a course designed to bring the world's best to their knees, we were presented with story after story, and talking head after talking head.  We were shown very little golf.
• It seemed all that mattered to Fox was the final two twosomes.  Again, while dozens of guys are killing themselves on the course, we spent dozens of minutes watching the last group of the day warming up on the range.  Really.
• Given the above, we missed the incredible play of Adam Scott.  At -6, the guy shoots the best round of the day and climbed 29 places.  Of that incredible round, Fox maybe showed 8 shots, with nearly all of those being putts.  Huge fail.
• It seemed Fox really wanted to play up the Jason Day / vertigo angle.  For hours before tee off, that's all that was discussed, and while he was on the course we were treated either to close ups of him blinking, or color commentary about "how he must have had a spell" upon hitting a crappy shot.  If I hear the word "vertigo" one more time, I'm going to puke.
• Don't get me started on balls lost by the camera, not going back to tape to see how a guy ended up putting for eagle (as they did with Scott THREE TIMES), and myriad other amateurish errors.

I told my wife that golf broadcasts in the 1970's were better than what Fox pulled together yesterday.  I don't think I'm far off.

Atrocious coverage.  Period.

Golf needs a lot of help.  Participation is in free fall.  Coverage of one of the majors by Fox only makes a bad situation worse.  The PGA needs to address this.

Rubio Heckled, Knocks It Out of the Park

This is how you handle being heckled:



A couple of thoughts:

• This guy looks more and more presidential to me with every passing day
• When is the last time a liberal speaker was shouted down?  Anyone have any insight on that?  It seems like stifling speech has become a tactic that solely is employed by the Left.