Man the lifeboats.Thank you, Andrew Sullivan Andrew Michael Sullivan (born August 10,1963) is a libertarian conservative author and political commentator, distinguished by his often personal style of political analysis. His political blogs are among the most widely read on the Web. , for "A Call to Arms ! a summons to war or battle. See also: Arms " [Last Word, November 11]. We need to wake up and realize just how harmful the Federal Marriage Amendment The Federal Marriage Amendment (FMA) (also known as the Marriage Protection Amendment) is a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution which would define marriage in the United States as a union of one man and one woman. would be. In California we have struggled for a dozen years to, first, get domestic partners recognized by the state and then, year after year, have more benefits added. If this hateful measure were to pass, we would be not just back to square one but completely off the board--permanent second-class citizens. We need to fight back. All I hear is, "It can't happen (programming) can't happen - The traditional program comment for code executed under a condition that should never be true, for example a file size computed as negative. Often, such a condition being true indicates data corruption or a faulty algorithm; it is almost always handled , so why worry?" It reminds me of the passengers on the Titanic. Sam Catalano, Sacramento, Calif. Whenever I hear the right wing compare homosexuals to murderers, child abusers, rapists, and such, I am always incensed. Yet Andrew Sullivan in his column listed foreigners in the same sentence as those who violate others. My experience is that everyone, including me, is a bigot bigot - A person who is religiously attached to a particular computer, language, operating system, editor, or other tool (see religious issues). Usually found with a specifier; thus, "Cray bigot", "ITS bigot", "APL bigot", "VMS bigot", "Berkeley bigot". . The difference is, some of us work hard at learning to overcome what we have learned throughout a lifetime, while others make Freudian slips, like Sullivan did, or worse. Chao-I Chen, Plainfield, N.J. |
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