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Irregular commentary on whatever's on my mind -- politics, sports, current events, and life in general. After twenty years of writing business and community newsletters, fifteen years of fantasy baseball newsletters, and two years of email "columns", this is, I suppose, the inevitable result: the awful conceit that someone might actually care to read what I have to say. Posts may be added often, rarely, or never again. As always, my mood and motivation are unpredictable.

Buster Gammons















Thursday, February 27, 2014

The Right Thing For The Wrong Reason


On the plus side, the Wicked Witch of the West, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, has vetoed her stupid legislature's stupid bill, SB 1062, which would have allowed businesses to deny services to LGBT people and others based on the business owner's supposed "religious beliefs".  (A faithful reader says Seth Myers called it the "Nice Shirt, Nice Shoes, No Service" law!)

On the minus side, neither the governor nor any other of the state's Republican powers that be said they were rejecting the bill because it was discriminatory, or it was state-sanctioned bigotry, or it was simply wrong.  No, the real reason they vetoed the damn thing was economic -- somebody might lose money if the law were implemented.  "Legalized prejudice might cost us another Super Bowl!  NO!!!"

Ultimately, Arizona got this one right but learned nothing in the process.
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