My mother used to tell me that I was incapable of having an unexpressed thought, which was her adorable way of saying I talked too much. But Lucy was right.

Rarely do I formulate an opinion that I do not end up sharing with at least a few other people, and in most cases, with the world on social media.

That has gotten me both praise and vitriol, friends and enemies, and in a few cases, death threats.

But overall, I think that it’s important to let people know where you stand on any given issue, so they can make their own decision to either bring you into the fold, or employ the 10-foot pole.

That’s what I did the other day, on Facebook. My 64th birthday was last week, and I took the occasion to summarize who I was and what I believed after six and a half decades.

It went a little bit like this:

• I am as anti-abortion as you can be. Life of the mother is my only exception. Rape/incest is a red herring. Sorry, it is.

• I do not believe all women. MeToo was a scam.

• Black Lives Matter. So do White Lives. So do Brown, Yellow, Red, I can sing à rainbow, Captain Noah.

• Gay marriage is legal. I accept the Supreme........

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