Tuesday

Defining marriage however the heck we want. Dozens of gay couples were married Monday night after California became the second state to allow same-sex nuptials. In case you didn't know it, incidentally, this officially opens the flood gates: "Unlike Massachusetts, which legalized gay marriage in 2004, California has no residency requirement for marriage licenses, and that is expected to draw a great number of out-of-state couples."

There's not much more to be said on the matter. Even if homosexuality wasn't a developmental disorder to be discouraged, such combinations are not "marriage," any more than my arm is a leg, ignorance is knowledge, and lust is love. Define things however you want, but the truth stands. These ceremonies in California are closer to circuses than marriages.
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Okay, this story has me fascinated: A 49-year-old woman pleaded not guilty to charges arising from her role in a MySpace hoax that ended with a 13-year-old girl committing suicide after being spurned by a fictitious boy. . . . Prosecutors say Drew set up a fake account on the social networking site and posed, with others, as a 16-year-old boy "Josh Evans" to target a classmate of her teenage daughter, Megan Meier. What the? Did a group of adults decide that the girl needed a psychological whoopin', so they arranged this prank? Was it a semi-harmless little prank that escalated? Has Letterman called? I'm curious to know more.
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Lew Rockwell this morning linked to this story. Getting to know the Hitlers. It's written as a straightforward story about Hitler's relatives that live on Long Island. But it has a bunch of little things that make it an odd story. First, its date is 2002. Did Rockwell really link to a six-year-old story? Second, it refers to Long Island as "a forgotten corner of America." When did the Island move to South Dakota? Third, these relatives are descendants of Hitler's half-brother's son, whom Hitler despised (Hitler referred to him as "my loathsome nephew"), so the connection is a bit tenuous. Fourth, the "loathsome nephew" hated the Hitler legacy so much that he changed his last name . . . but named one of his sons after Uncle Adolph. It doesn't say when little Adolph was born, but his father was born in 1911, so it was probably after big Adolph had started his terrible ways. Fifth, the loathsome nephew had four sons. In a "remarkable pact," they decided not to have any children so the Hitler blood line would die out. Isn't that overdoing it a bit? More interestingly, isn't that awfully Aryan-nationish-type thinking?