Quote of the Day

“This ‘pledge’ is nothing short of a promise to discriminate against everyone who makes a personal choice that doesn’t fit into a particular definition of ‘virtue’. While the Family Leader pledge covers just about every other so-called virtue they can think of, the one that is conspicuously missing is tolerance. In one concise document, they manage to condemn gays, single parents, single individuals, divorcees, Muslims, gays in the military, unmarried couples, women who choose to have abortions, and everyone else who doesn’t fit in a Norman Rockwell painting."

--GOP Presidential candidate and former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson on Bob Vander Plaats' Family Leader pledge.  Johnson is the only candidate to stand up to the bullies and denounce this vile document.  Bachmann and Santorum signed it while the other candidates have been mostly silent. 

Presidential Yearbook

The Atlantic has a great photo-feature of high school yearbook pictures of the presidential candidates.  At left is my vote for cutest, future New Mexico governor Gary Johnson with his Sandia High School track team.  Frankly, it was a close call between Johnson and Fred Karger.  Go here and see what you think.

By the way, here is a more recent pic of the 48 year-old Gov. Johnson competing in a triathlon and making me feel really inadequate about my fitness program: