Last night I watched the war in Iraq end. I figured since I watched it begin, I should watch it end, too. So, around 9 pm EST (2 or 3 am local time) the last of our combat troops crossed the border into Kuwait, the gate was closed, and an era ended.

And homophobes everywhere are all up in arms as if this is news of pending Armageddon.

Jon Goldwater, co-CEO of Archie Comics, says it’s “about keeping the world of Archie Comics current and inclusive.”

But the homophobes, as usual, see conspiracies, and they’re not sure what it means — political correctness gone “too far,” or the standard indoctrination into the “homosexual agenda” (whatever that’s supposed to be), or that the publishers are trying to be “hip” — as if it’s, like, the late 1970s.

Well, here’s the scoop.

It’s not PC BS, nor is it indoctrination, or even an attempt to be “hip.”

It’s called progress, folks.

In the modern world — as opposed to paradise never was — we acknowledge that some people are gay and that they are as much a part of our society and culture as anyone else.

So, either live in these times, or get left behind — ’cause there’s no goin’ back to the bad old days when people who were not straight, white, Christian and male, were considered second-class citizens.

(Yes, equality can be a bitch to those who believe themselves superior!)

Source: Yahoo! News.

Y’all may or may not like it — all two or three of you who may be paying attention — but I do and that’s what counts. I’m sure someone else is using it somewhere, but I don’t care ’cause I made it a little different.

Okay, that’s it for now as my purpose (to push down the previous post) has been served.

As some of you who may have been here before have probably already noticed, Land of the Free Home of the Brave is all yucky default and everything.

This is because my Wordpress has been upgraded (allegedly better security features) and the new version doesn’t like my old theme.

So, now I have to get down and dirty with the CSS/HTML/PHP thingies and fix it — this may take awhile as I have been doing other stuff and Tax Day is fast approaching — using the new Wordpress callouts.

Other than the way it’s eaten my theme, this new Wordpress is actually not too terribly bad from the admin point of view. Plus, I have the little HTML tag editor doohickey working on my iMac!

And before I forget, here’s my latest video experiment:

All two or three of you who may be interested can check out my channels on Ustream and Stickam…

So, where is it?

It fell victim to a scummy spammer who took over our web servers and was re-directing our traffic to other, random web sites.

And now, we’re back up and running (for all 2 or 3 of you who may care), but without the side bar, for now.

I may have to make a whole new one ’cause I wrote this Wordpress plug-in to put random quotations next to the calendar, and it lost it’s mind — or, rather its database.

But we are limping along nonetheless…