common sense

Like the man says: they call it common sense because it's common.

We think we know all sorts of things and we explain our actions accordingly. But from what I've seen, we are almost always wrong.

So let's make a pact.

Let's all agree that we are almost always wrong: wrong about what we know, our perspective, our understanding, our choices; wrong across the board all the time.

And then maybe we can give up on our dearly held ideas.

Believe in something? You're wrong.
Know something? You're wrong

So let's start being right by living with the knowledge that we are wrong.

Same-sex couples in D.C. set to say 'I do'

Washington (CNN) -- Dozens of same-sex couples plan to marry in the District of Columbia on Tuesday, the first day that such unions will be legal in the nation's capital.

The new law survived a Supreme Court challenge last week, when the measure went into effect, but couples had to hold off until Tuesday because of a three-day waiting period.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/03/09/same.sex.marriages/?hpt=T2



I am in favor of equal rights for all groups.

I am especially pleased that news like this is no longer big news. There was a time, not too long ago, where any attempt to legalize or normalize homosexual rights within society was met with a swift and powerful backlash.
Now, this news doesn't even make the front page.

In my opinion it shows the success of the equal rights movement and the growing acceptance of equal rights.

Although, as a friend once told me, "there's no such thing as rights. Rights are a figment of our imagination. A right is that which cannot be taken away from you. Tell me waht 'right' you have that cannot be taken away."