I want to go to the Vernon tonight to see Sam Teitel and Steve Subrizi but in the last six hours or so, the small sniffles I’ve been experiencing all day turned into a body-ache and severe runniness.  Grr.

Warren to deliver inaugural invocation.

Y’know…if he’d taken a less vocal stand against Prop 8, or not justified it by using the free speech argument to say that pastors would have been unable to preach against gay marriage if it passed, I’d have no problem with Warren, or with Obama choosing a conservative pastor for the invocation. 

I’m all for balance and competing views.  This isn’t balance; this is appeasement.

posits that we have a right to the "pursuit of happiness."  Not its achievement.

I tend to believe that the misunderstanding of this clause is a major problem with most Americans. 

There is no right to "be" happy.  You don’t "deserve" happiness; you deserve the opportunity to pursue it as you wish.  If you don’t get it, you don’t get it; pursue it some other way or give up the pursuit as you wish.  That’s your right.

Happiness is a result.  You have a right to try for it.  It is not owed to you.