Politics and Culture

1. Obama said that the Fort Hood massacre is "incomprehensible." Let me help him: The killer thought that the God in which he believes would like that he murder those who, according to him this time, are harming Muslims. At least that's what he said. Understand?

2. I added on my Fort Hood post that it's true that if a person murders (unjust killing) for his religion, he's a religious fanatic. It follows, however, that a person who kills for material things, like money, is a materialist fanatic. The Orlando killer, Jason Rodriguez, is a materialist nut.

3. Brookstone should be able to fire people who don't agree with a strongly-held corporate belief. It's their money. I also think that corporations can make people speak politely or with a certain accent, have appropriate hair styles, not dress like the opposite sex, and pretty much anything else. It's their money.

4. And, why isn't the boss wrong for creating a hostile work environment for Christians?

5. Some people without strong feelings on gay marriage might be swayed against it by the sense that stating a negative opinion about homosexuality might get them in trouble and that allowing same-sex marriage would make it downright forbidden. Maggie Gallagher of the National Organization for Marriage has said that the Carrie Prejean incident helped their cause. The pro-traditional-marriage-only side in the Maine vote used the case of a counselor who got in trouble for expressing an anti-same-sex marriage opinion as an example of what can happen to dissenters if gay marriage were allowed. The anti-Mormon demonstrations reinforced the idea that pro-same-sex marriage types will not tolerate dissent once they gain the power to impose their view of the world onto everybody else.

6. Man, I wish I didn't have to talk about this stuff.