Don't Argue with Fools, because.....

My 90-year-old Grandmother is famous for saying, "Don't argue with fools because from a distance folks can't tell who is who."  Those words echo in my mind everyday, because I am confident to say that I interact and run into my share of fools who want to do nothing more than make themselves feel better by attempting to drag me down into the belly of the beast.  Well, I haven't fallen for it for more than 3-decades, so I'm not going to start now.

Earlier this morning, while navigating my way through Worcester, I saw a woman, who was so enamored with her cellphone that she almost hit a kid crossing the street, in a crosswalk nonetheless. 

When she saw the kid in the crosswalk, she slammed on the brakes, dropped her cellphone, but bent down to pick it up from the driver's side floor and continue her conversation, like nothing had happened.

Then, 15-minutes later, I saw a young man driving a Lexus GS300, cut off a driver on Providence Street to turn into the X-Tra Mart. (If he did see the oncoming car, he didn't care and decided that where he was going was more important than the next woman or man.)

While I could have played the fool and shouted out the window, I chose not to.  Why? Well, what good would have come from it?  Again, from a distance.....it's hard to tell who is who.

Drive safely!

New Law: No Texting while Driving

I hope this law is passed and then, hopefully, we'll see a law banning holding a cellphone to your ear while driving in Massachusetts as well?

I'm tired of drivers almost running over pedestrians or slamming into my vehicle while trying to turn a corner while attempting not to drop their cellphone.

Massachusetts to sue the Federal Governement over DOMA

Today in a Superior Court in Boston, a group from Massachusetts filed a suit against the Federal Government over the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, which they state interferes with Massachusetts definition of marriage, as it's defined by the state.

As you know, Massachusetts was the first state to legalize same sex marriages on May 17, 2004, when then Governor, Mitt Romney, ordered all town clerks to begin issuing marriage licenses.

Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders filed their lawsuit in March 2009 and questioned Section 3 of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which defines the word "marriage" as "a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife."

Yahoo! News is reporting that Massachusetts Attorney General, Martha Coakley, will be filing a similar lawsuit today as well.