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Episode No. 2

Another of my departed father's columns I recently recovered. Originally posted September 1998

THOUGHTS FROM THE COUNTRY By Rusty Rucker

Heard t’other day ‘bout the big controversy over, let’s see, I s’pose they wanna be call gays now, getting’ married. In my youth homosexuals were fags and queers, now they have alternative life styles. I wonder if any “straight” folks ever stop to think about what those “alternative life styles” consist of. Disgusting assaults each other's behind that make me wanna puke -- and now they want to marry so they can have the benefits of family life. Well, I’ll tell you, consenting adults may have the right to do anything they please, but keep the door shut. Don't be rubbing it in my face .....

Marriage is sanctioned by society to support family values -- to create a stable environment for little kids to grow up in. Sure, we as civilized people want those little ones to have every opportunity possible and that is why we allow tax breaks and other benefits so married couples can afford to raise their young. It is a travesty to presume that two men or women who choose to live together should have the benefits of a decent couple raising a family. Let thendo their unspeakable things if they must, but we should not sanction it -- EVER. Seems like McClintock has a mission to further gay-rights (whatever they are). Guess that’s understandable when we consider his liberal preferences.

On the subject of “The White House Affair” I have to believe this whole Kenneth Starr thing is a witch hunt to discredit the President. How is it that an investigation of alleged Whitewater misdeeds has circled ‘round the barn into what a man does behind closed doors. Everyone knows JFK fooled around, as did FDR and Ike, Churchill and Prince Charles. Even King David did the unspeakable, sending Batstheba’s husband into battle so he could have his wife. Yep! Little David, the giant killer. It’s like Hollywood -- people in power have to feed their ego. I say the office is disgraced by the media feeding off the Starr investigation and by nothing the man in the big White House did. Strange we are so quick to condemn a man for denying events in his private life, but when President Brush stood before us and declared, “Read My Lips, no new taxes” we were willing to accept that lie as political rhetoric. BS --

Thanks for the ride.

Y'all come back now. Ya hear?

Rusty Rucker No. 1 is here and the assorted poems I recovered are here.