Just when you think things can't possibly get any sillier:
The words, "bride" and "groom" will be restored on all California marriage licenses starting next month, state health officials announced Monday.
On June 16, when same-sex marriage became legal in the state, the Department of Public Health issued new gender-neutral marriage forms with the words "Party A," and "Party B" in place of bride and groom.
Guess some things never really change:
The single most perplexing phrase in the English language, I've always thought, is “one thing led to another”. Hooking up with someone is rarely that straightforward. One thing, in my experience, usually leads to a misunderstanding, which leads to awkwardness, disappointment and, eventually, howling despair.
Roger Ebert posted an article, "Creationsim: Your questions answered," on his blog as a bit of satire. Anybody who knows the least little thing about him will know this was not meant to be straightforward. But there were thousands of comments on his site and throughout the blogosphere reflecting the widespread conviction that age and/or illness had turned him into a Creationist or a lunatic.
Baby boomers, whiners till the end:
America's baby boomers are in a collective funk. Members of the large generation born from 1946 to 1964 are more downbeat about their lives than are adults who are younger or older, according to a new Pew Research Center Social and Demographic Trends survey.
The spotlight on Trig Palin at the GOP convention, writes Michael Gerson, comes at a time when we need to have a civil-rights debate about those who are born "less than perfect." Of the cases of Down syndrome diagnosed by prenatal testing each year, about 90 percent are eliminated by abortion. And the American College of Obstetricians recently recommended universal early testing for Down syndrome, not just for older women. Some say increased screenings will reduce the number of Down syndrome births to fewer than 1,000 a year, compared to the 5,500 a year we now have:
There's a lot of discussion about whether the press is being unfair to Sarah Palin in the ususal liberal sorts of ways, but also speficially whether a lot of the treatmenet of her is sexist:
Should Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin — a mother of five children, including a special-needs infant — have accepted the vice presidential slot on the Republican ticket? Is it sexist to even ask such a question? The conversation transcends traditional party lines.
You only need to see the headline -- "She's happily married, dreaming of divorce" -- to know you're going to be treated to a wonderfully entertaining descent into self-indulgent whining:
How do you know someone has more money than he knows what to do with? He spends $10,000 to have a religious ceremony for his dog:
David Best decided to throw a party for his dog named Elvis. He decided to make it a "Bark Mitzvah" and had guests like Dr. Ruth show up at Sammy's Roumanian In Manhattan.
And, yes, there is video.
Here is the opening paragraph from Kurt Vonnegut's short story "Harrison Bergeron."
I think the McCain camp is reacting the wrong way:
John McCain's campaign hit back at Madonna on Sunday after the pop diva kicked off her world tour with a concert that bracketed the US presidential candidate with Adolf Hitler.
