In Latin, ex cathedra means "from the chair". When the Pope proclaims an infallible religious truth, he does it ex cathedra.
Professors who hold "chairs" in universities participate in the same image, although with a far higher margin for error.
Although I am definitely not the Bishop of Rome, this blog is my cathedra. Here I tell my infallible truth about sex, politics and religion, the really interesting stuff you aren't supposed to talk about in polite company.
I'm USMaleSF, a rare breed: a right-leaning, man-loving man living in the Castro, People's Republik of San Francisco, Mexifornia. Why do I stay here? I love the weather and the geography.
My erotic orientation is a very big part of who I am, but it does not lead me to embrace the package deal of group victimism, anti-masculine feminism and compulsive political leftism that shapes the "LGBT" community.
OBTW, since liberals think that they are smart and conservatives are dumb, I have five, count'em, five university degrees and an IQ that puts me in the top 2%.
Just sayin'.
The "progressive" seven-spoked wheel of multiculturalism, feminism, wealth redistributionism, pacifism, transnationalism, secularism and environmentalism --a recipe for Western suicide-- provokes my distinct resistance.
So that makes me:
In politics, an American conservative.*
In sex, a man-loving man.
In religion, a non-practicing Catholic who appreciates Catholicism...and its ancient nemesis, Gnosticism.
Even though exit polls show that about 25% of self-identified gay and lesbian voters chose the Republican candidate in the last couple of presidential elections, damn few of them live here.
So I do a lot of thinking for, and by, myself.
And I do my ranting here so I don't lose all my friends.
*I usually wind up voting for Republicans, not because I am thrilled with them --far from it; they are largely unreliable pussies-- but because the alternative Democrats are so much worse.
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PS. My explanation of how and why I went from being a liberal to a conservative is here:
Professors who hold "chairs" in universities participate in the same image, although with a far higher margin for error.
Although I am definitely not the Bishop of Rome, this blog is my cathedra. Here I tell my infallible truth about sex, politics and religion, the really interesting stuff you aren't supposed to talk about in polite company.
I'm USMaleSF, a rare breed: a right-leaning, man-loving man living in the Castro, People's Republik of San Francisco, Mexifornia. Why do I stay here? I love the weather and the geography.
Me, pensively observing the back yard and
paradoxically, leaning to the left.
paradoxically, leaning to the left.
My erotic orientation is a very big part of who I am, but it does not lead me to embrace the package deal of group victimism, anti-masculine feminism and compulsive political leftism that shapes the "LGBT" community.
OBTW, since liberals think that they are smart and conservatives are dumb, I have five, count'em, five university degrees and an IQ that puts me in the top 2%.
Just sayin'.
The "progressive" seven-spoked wheel of multiculturalism, feminism, wealth redistributionism, pacifism, transnationalism, secularism and environmentalism --a recipe for Western suicide-- provokes my distinct resistance.
So that makes me:
In politics, an American conservative.*
In sex, a man-loving man.
In religion, a non-practicing Catholic who appreciates Catholicism...and its ancient nemesis, Gnosticism.
Even though exit polls show that about 25% of self-identified gay and lesbian voters chose the Republican candidate in the last couple of presidential elections, damn few of them live here.
So I do a lot of thinking for, and by, myself.
And I do my ranting here so I don't lose all my friends.
*I usually wind up voting for Republicans, not because I am thrilled with them --far from it; they are largely unreliable pussies-- but because the alternative Democrats are so much worse.
____________________________
PS. My explanation of how and why I went from being a liberal to a conservative is here:
