A minute for gay rights

Do you have a minute for gay rights? How about the environment? The ACLU? My new apartment is at the intersection of Food-Coop-Vest-Wearers' Street and Pushy-Yet-Earnest Activist Road. Panhandling is by no means rare in New York, but Park Slope is where limousine meets liberal on the graph of panhandling success, so the panhandler:pedestrian ratio is something remarkable, especially in front of banks, because after seeing the fabulosity that is your account balance, your first thought is how little other people have.

That is all. Depending what impact this all has, I will either be a hippie or a paleoconservative by the year's end.