Not "best buddies," but long time friends of my wife and me. One is a member of the writers' group that meets at our apartment once a month, and he and his partner are often guests, along with several other people, on holidays And they are their own best buddies, capisch?

And by the way, they've just been married under Washington State's new same-sex marriage bill, which was passed by popular vote in the last election.

And I have always been concerned with my son's well-being, and I deserted no one. When you don't know the uniqueness of the situation (and I'm not going to tell you because it's none of your business), you do what you normally do—lie your fool head off!

And the kind of lies you tell graphically illustrate the nature of your own character. It's what you do.

And as far as the issue of same-sex marriage going away, obviously not so. More and more states are passing laws to make same-sex marriage legal. It's just a matter of time. And then YOU, Goofy, and those benighted souls who share your attitudes and prejudices, will be the primitives left behind by the rest of the world.

Don Firth