Like water flowing up-hill

Another slow start to the week. I’m not sure why.
Of course, it could be just that I woke up very early and never got around to a nap. It’s a mistake, but sometimes I wind up just puttering around after I get up, instead of squeezing out as much writing as possible, and that doesn’t leave me with enough time for a nap (even the brief ones I take).
Partly it may be that there’s still no Business and Money eHows to write, so I’m focusing on technology instead. It pays a little less, but still enough to keep me in the black now that I’m on TYG’s insurance instead of COBRA. But now there’s a learning-curve: I’m having a harder time figuring which articles will turn out writeable, and a harder time writing them (it’s terra incognita to me). Plus, unsurprisingly, the number of wikis and crowd-sourced sites often crowd out any “official” information (Demand Media is very strict on what we can use for sources, which is, I think, a good thing). But I’ll get there.
I’m also wondering if I need to tinker further with my schedule. Should I go back to doing six eHows a day, as I did before entering the better-paying money/business line? Or stick with five and concentrate on sending out queries or working on Raleigh Public Record stories the rest of the time? Given my lower expenses (did I mention I’m off COBRA now? [though lord knows, I’m glad I had it]), I can do that, but as I’ve noted before, I have a terrible fear that sooner or later, I’ll be cursing myself (“I’m sorry, you’re just $25 short of affording your wife’s new liver.”).
I think I’ll decide when I’ve had more sleep. Now, some links!
•Glenn Greenwald points out that the FBI is very effective at busting terrorism, as long as it pushes the terrorist into it. He also muses on the fact the Obama administration assassinated Anwar al-Awlaki, a man who has never been officially charged with anything, based solely on government claims he’s a dangerous terrorist.
•Lance Mannion discusses the Catholic Church threatening to come out against Obama for refusing to defend the Defense of Marriage Act, and suggests their might be more Christian issues for confronting the White House over.
•A town clerk in New York refuses to marry gay couples. Now here’s where my mixed thoughts about job consequences for people’s off-job politics are not mixed at all: You work for the government, you serve all the people. Period. Like it or not. Okay, if she can find someone else to fill out the forms when people show up, cool——but telling them to come back another day, no way.
Ditto Jerry Buell, an anti-gay Florida school teacher (he suggested the solution to gays in the military is to put them on the front lines, then withdraw, a student says) who wanted to tell his students (according to a PDF of the school board’s letter to him, it was removed from the class syllabus) that if they don’t like him teaching “God’s truth,” they should change their schedule.
No, Mr. Buell. You get to keep your religious beliefs out of the classroom, and the school website, and communications with students on Facebook. And that’s not oppression, that’s what being a public servant means.
In my younger and more naive days I used to think that pointing out how people like this would feel on the receiving end might have an impact. And sometimes it might. But too many people are convinced it’s totally different; like Bryan Fischer, they believe these rights are something only people like them deserve.