A milestone

With this blog post I’ve reached another milestone. This is post 4000! I’ve reached this point in almost 11.5 years of blogging, having started Nov. 17, 2007.

In this time and over this number of posts I discussed gay marriage and marriage equality 686 times (though, thankfully not much recently), the GOP 614 times, Barack Obama 212 times over nine years and the nasty guy 209 times over four years. Also in the highest used labels are personal stories (381), fundamentalism (282), gay acceptance (255), bigotry (250) and church bigotry (167).

I crossed 1000 posts in the spring of 2010 (I’m not going to search for an exact date). 2000 posts came in January 2012. I got to 3000 in the fall of 2015.

Here is a sample of my posts through the years. It is not a highlight reel. I chose months for no particular reason. Alas, a lot of the topics have stayed the same over the years. In June of 2008 I wrote about:

A trip to Alaska with my parents. I posted no photos because I was still using a film camera.

A little amendment that Phil Gramm inserted into a must-pass bill in 2000 that was a big reason for the economic collapse that started that year – “Conservatism creates a secret casino. It is always open and the players never lose. As for the rest of us, we get stuck with the bailouts and the damage to our communities.”

Dr. Robert Gagnon used some twisted scholarship to show the Bible disapproves of gays.

In October of 2009 I wrote about:

Being a part of a phone campaign to preserve same-sex marriage in Maine (it lost that year) and that Barack Obama had a LGBT Civil Rights Scorecard.

The incompatibility of health care and the profit motive. There is a word for those that have no problem with 45,000 deaths and 700,000 bankruptcies: sociopath. And the more sociopathic a health care insurance company is the more profitable it is.

The appearance of the Conservative Bible, an attempt to purge the inerrant word of God of its liberal bias.

In March 2011 I wrote about:

In America 400 people have as much wealth as 155 million. “These rich people are now afraid of us demanding our money back.”

The Ohio Senate passed a bill that stripped domestic partner benefits from university and city workers, saying it was necessary to balance the state budget.

In September 2012 I wrote about:

I took a bus trip to Charlotte, NC to take part in a Labor Day weekend protest at Wall Street South and the Democratic National Convention (to open a couple days later).

“This argument about needing both a mother and father is only applied to gay couples. It is not applied to the society as a whole. Is it in the best interest of the child to have a parent with a debilitating disease, addicted to drugs, with a criminal record, or living in poverty?”

“Should we take care of the poor? If so, how? The GOP platform trumpets God. But they answer the first question with a resounding no. The Dems didn't do any trumpeting, but said yes to the first and gave a detailed answer for the second.”

In March 2014 I wrote about:

Same-sex marriage began in England and Wales, began early in Illinois, and briefly appeared in Michigan.

In September 2015 I wrote about:

The limits of privatization of public services through the book *What Money Can’t Buy, the Moral Limits of Markets* by Michael J. Sandel.

Pushback against same-sex marriage, such as Kim Davis refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples in Kentucky.

In May 2017 I wrote about:

Advancement in artificial intelligence means computers taking over more jobs. This won’t be a paradise because more money will go into the pockets of those already rich. The social hierarchy will be reinforced. Automation will be a massive disruption and we’re not talking about it.

The Detroit Symphony Orchestra performed The Defiant Requiem, the story of Giuseppi Verdi’s Requiem being sung in the Terezin concentration camp. The Jewish inmates could sing this Catholic service as a way of resisting their captors, singing what they could not say.

I know some of you have read every one of these 4000 posts. I thank you for being a faithful reader.