Mental note: Never hire Randy Thomasson to write our obituaries

We see lots of wacky things around here. Hell, we deal with Westboro Baptist Church on a direct and relatively frequent basis -- shocking us with far-right extremism is a difficult feat. But today, we came across something from Rany Thomasson 's Save California site ( which was a big backer of Proposition 8 and currently a big opponent of honoring Harvey Milk ) that appalled us even more than the time that Randy compared county clerks who have to issue marriage license to same-sex c

Ian On Sunday

Inconsolable loss Of all the expressions of inconsolable loss I have read concerning the death of anyone greatly loved, the following lament by Henry James, the novelist, when his older brother, William James, the scientist and philosopher, died is one of the most heartfelt: “I sit heavily stricken and in darkness – for from far aback in dimmest childhood he had been my Elder Brother; and I still, through all the years, saw in him, even as a small timorous boy yet, my protector, my backer