I think I've said more than once that, because of the Constitution's full faith and credit clause, the gay-marriage issue is certain to be decided by the Supreme Court. So now it starts:
Rhode Island should recognize state employees' gay marriages that are performed in neighboring Massachusetts and extend benefits to their partners, the state's attorney general said in an opinion released Wednesday.
Most people who hear about this story will probably go, "Aww, that's so cute!"
GOVERNMENT CAMP, Ore. - Thanks to a high-tech electronic gadget and a big warm dog named Velvet, three climbers rescued after a harrowing fall and a night in the wind and cold high on Mount Hood are expected to be fine.
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Come on, 'fess up. Haven't there been times when you wished you'd had this much guts?
Fed up with spending too many weekends going to weddings, an Argentine couple took out a paid announcement on the social pages of a major newspaper expressing their desire for some social neglect.
Adolfo Caballero, 66, told a La Nacion reporter the flood of invitations came from the children of his dozens of cousins, friends from his club, and clients of his law firm.
"Mideast summit ends with little real progress" -- boy, there's a headline we've hardly ever seen in our lives, eh?
State Rep. Mike Bennett hasn't abandoned his quest to punish motorists who settle into the left lane and force faster drivers to go around them. The Bradenton Republican has re-introduced a bill this year that was vetoed last year by then-Gov. Jeb Bush.
It targets drivers who don't move over "once they realize that traffic behind them is overtaking them at a high rate of speed," Bennett wrote in a column sent to newspapers several weeks ago.
Happy President's Day. It's the lamest excuse for a three-day weekend there is, but editorial columns have to be filled, and a holiday is always good for 600 or 700 words. Remembering the value of leadership? We're at a point in history in which roughly 40 percent of the people will hate everything a president stands for, although President Bush has been exceeding that. Whoever the next president is, of whichever party, will be in for a rough four years.
Magazines are following newspapers, TV networks, newspapers and all the rest of the "legacy media" in the wrong direction:
"What's hurting magazines the most is the loss of readers of its printed pages to the Internet," said magazine analyst Martin Walker.
"The titles with the strongest performances are the fashion and beauty titles whose pages can been seen only on their printed versions, not on the Internet," said Walker.
Ah, if only the wandering astronaut had learned this startling and little-known information, that experts say "many employers are caught by surprise by the ripple effects of intra-office relationships, which can demoralize staff and spread envy and resentment." The office romance -- a big pain, but you can't stop them. The combination of attraction, common interests and sheer proximity is too powerful. Maybe a little education would help?
Gadzooks. Seems like just about everything we do is destroying the planet:
The Valentine's Day bouquet — the gift that every woman in Britain will be waiting for next week — has become the latest bête noire among environmental campaigners.
Latest Government figures show that the flowers that make up the average bunch have flown 33,800 miles to reach Britain.
