The state of the culture

A love story for the modern age:

In today's America, this is sad but not really surprising:

Nothing much about the human condition throws me -- I've seen enough strange turns in my lifetime to know just about anything is possible. Once in a while, though, something comes along that is stunning enough to make feel really old and out of it. This is one:

This isn't exactly a shocking headline; it could have been written any time in the last 50 years and, come to think of it, has been, many times: The war on drugs has been a failure:

Stunning new research from the Institute for the Obvious:

Are there people who still worry that legalizing gay marriage will somehow "weaken traditional marriage"? I don't know why. We seem to be doing a capable job of that all by ourselves:

Oh, these kids today, I tell ya. They just don't handle change very well, do they?

A group called Morality in Media tried to get the Pentagon to ban the sales of magazines like Playboy and Penthouse on military bases, but the Pentagon declared that the magazines do not violate department rules against selling sexually explicit material on military property. But the Army has decided to stop selling adult magazines in PXes anyway. Not for the reason you might be thinking:

The Weiner roast just gets amusinger and amusinger:

Bill and Hillary Clinton are angry with efforts by mayoral hopeful Anthony Weiner and his campaign to compare his Internet sexcapades — and his wife Huma Abedin’s incredible forgiveness — to the Clintons’ notorious White House saga, The Post has learned.

When the Supreme Court said it was unconstitutional discrimination to treat straight and gay married couples differently in states that recognized gay marriage, the obvious question was (and it was asked by a lot of people), well, what about same-sex couples in states that don't recognize gay marriage? Is it any less discriminatory to treat people differently in some states than it is in other states? Now, a federal judge in Ohio is pushing that very federalism button: