My respect of blogger Francis W. Porretto (Eternity Road) just went up ten-fold due to his recent post about sex, choice, and minding you own business. A choice exerpt: Moral conduct toward others is a hotly debated subject. Your Curmudgeon doesn’t expect it to be settled in his lifetime. However, there’s at least one principle that appears to have general assent: It is wrong to treat another person solely as a means to your own ends. As regards sex, some of the implications are obvious. To lie to a potential bedmate about your intentions toward her, just to get her panties off, is...

I always raise an eyebrow when I hear people say: I can’t trust anyone. Not that I’m minimalizing the issue of trust. But to just say that I can’t trust anyone flies in the face of various choices we make in everyday life. For example, millions of us head to various restaurants, stores, shacks, cafes, stands, dives, bars, shops, and pubs in order to satisfy our hunger and thirst. We walk right in, order what we want, and consume it without a blink of an eye. Heck, we sit down, eat, and drink while distressing over trust issues (to ourselves or to a friend). Yet we trusted...

Will someone please help me to understand that whenever people talk about a full light rail system in Detroit, Michigan and the metro area, all I hear is how we need to expand the bus system? If I’m not mistaken, Detroit faces a multi-billion dollar renovating of it’s main traffic artery I-94 (not the mention the countless antiquated and just busted main roads in the city). So what’s all this more buses talk when they frequently face the same problems that cars face? Those that live in cities with working light rail, how is it working out? We desperately need something here...

Dance sister dance I love the way you move I love to watch you Dance sister dance Feel the rhythm flow into your soul Dance sister dance Feel the rhythm flow Feel the rhythm flow through you Dance sister dance I love to watch you move I love the way you dance Baila mi hermana Baila para mi Baila mi hermana Baila para mi – Santana, “Dance Sister Dance (Baila Mi Hermana)”, (1976) Your magical, charming, and enchanting when you move woman. And with that big smile on your face… Dance with me, wifey! We big dudes can move very well when motivated.

Ron Gettelfinger, president of the United Auto Workers (UAW) union makes some very good points about the state of American health care in a recent Detroit News article: In recent weeks, members and retirees of our union have confronted a new set of challenges in the field of health care. The roots of this problem, however, are hardly new. As Walter Reuther said during an address to the American Public Health Association in 1968: “We must first free ourselves of the illusion that we really have a health care system in America. What we have is a disorganized, disjointed, antiquated, obsolete...

I don’t watch funerals of important people in our society much. When his/her death is announced, I have an initial reaction, recollect on his/her impact to our society, and I move on. But I turned on Rosa Parks’ funeral ceremony and watched about 30 minutes of it on the local television coverage. That was at 11:00am EST. So when I turned on the same channel at 6:00pm, the funeral at Greater Grace Temple (Detroit) was still on-going. I was positively disgusted. My wife, the digital video recording Queen, recorded the entire ceremony. So I grabbed the remote control and started...

So President Bush has outlined a $7.1B flu-fighting strategy that will hoard enough vaccine for *snicker* 20 million Americans. Ok, that’s less than 10% of the population but who am I to complain? I’m just a peon. A scrub. A lowly citizen. But President Bush, why go the ol’ vaccine route when you can make a mandatory chicken soup initiative? Chicken soup is plentiful and easy to procur also. Oh that’s right. This is called the bird flu and chickens would be high risk and very contagious… HMMMM! I got it. A mandatory imitation chicken soup initiative! Everything...