A Virginia Esperantist on Ido

Defended the honor of
Esperanto

The Esperanto Association of North America started at something of an inopportune time. Less than a year before the EANA was launched, the Delegation for the Adoption of an International Language had thrown their weight behind Esperanto-with-modifications (that is, Ido).[1] One of the first things the EANA had to deal with was a somewhat fractured movement in which some of the early luminaries were jumping ship.[2]

In Virginia, the honor of the Esperanto movement was defended by George H. Appleton of Lynchburg, Virginia, who wrote to the Times Dispatch defending Esperanto as it was set down by Zamenhof, and putting some of the news about the fracturing of the movement into context, basically arguing that the whole Ido movement was getting more intention than its actual numbers warranted.

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Two (bad) ways to argue against marriage equality

It's been a big week for marriage equality (and I just haven't had time to write about it), but I saw two stories on Slate this morning that I really wanted to address. The first is piece by David S. Cohen, a law professor at Drexel University School of Law, called "The Worst Argument Ever Made Against Gay Marriage." Over the last twenty years, I have heard a lot of arguments against same-sex marriage. Not just unconvincing, but ones so devoid of any coherence that you wonder why a sane person would ever make one.

My favorite bad argument against same-sex marriage is the "bisexuals argument." I see it a lot in comment threads on the Internet. It goes something like this:

If gay men are allowed to marry other men, then bisexuals should be allowed to marry one person of each sex.

Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. And by "a lot" I mean "not a single bit." Are we even assuming that straight men are incapable of finding more than one woman attractive at a time? Nah.

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