He's got my vote in '08

This just in: Senator Russ Feingold says he would legalize same-sex marriages. He voted against the Patriot Act, against the war, for Roberts and against Alito, and his name is synonymous with campaign finance reform. Could he possibly beat Hillary? I hope so.....

Ding, Dong the Witch Is Dead!

This just in: according to an interview just published in TIME.com, Tom "The Hammer" Delay is dropping out of his re-election bid. Next stop: trying on a pair of those orange coveralls Federal prisoners wear....

Civil unions for all!

Here's a well-argued case for getting government out of the marriage business as an affirmation of the separation of church and state. File this under "Eminently sensible, but with no chance of ever becoming public policy."

April Fools! (early edition)

I guess this is what those folks at Microsoft have been working on instead of the new operating system!

What happens in MA stays in MA

Those judicial activists are at it again. In a six to one vote, the Massachusetts Supreme Judical Court has upheld a 1913 law banning marriages to out-of-staters if the marriage would not be legal in their home state. Sullivan argues that this should end all pushes for constitutional amendments, state or Federal, since with this ruling Massachusetts has essentially saved them the trouble. But he ignores those in my situation: I'm legally married in Massachusetts but may or already have moved to another state. How is it just in this "e pluribus unum" nation that for so fundamental a piece of my identity I can have a different legal status depending in which state I reside. Are marriage laws simply like any other statute - those defining criminal offenses or zoning requirements, for examples - or are they intended to protect "the bedrock of society"?

Maybe it was the Ambien...

In India a man accidentally divorced his wife while asleep. Now that tops sleep eating!

OPRAH Approved?

How long until Oprah gets a restraining order to stop this? I think T-Shirt Hell has some pretty funny/shocking items for sale, but have they crossed the line this time?

The Real Cost of Freedom

A marine from Texas who was due to return home from Iraq to his wife and three children this week was killed last Wednesday. He had volunteered to disarm a bomb in Iraq's war-torn Anbar province because, as his widow explained, "he didn't want his children to grow up with people blowing up buildings."

Quote of the Week

Quote of the Week

In Annapolis, (Capital of) Maryland, at a hearing on the proposed Constitutional Amendment to prohibit gay marriage, Jamie Raskin, professor of law at AU, was requested to testify and he did so.

At the conclusion of his testimony, a right-wing senator rose to say, 'Mr. Raskin, my Bible says that marriage shall occur only between a man and a woman. What do you have to say about that?'

Raskin: 'Senator, when you took your oath of office, you placed your hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. You did not place your hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible.'

The room erupted into applause.

Romney's mascot: a pander bear

Last weekend in Nashville Gov. Romney repeated an insult against gay & lesbian parents by asserting that "every child has the right to a mother and a father." Today he acknowledges that we have "a legitimate interest" in adoption. Gee, thanks Gov.! Never mind that Massachusetts law specifically allows gay adoption, including second parent adoption. This, from a Harvard Law grad. Romney's flip-flop reminds me of his stance on abortion. During his campaign for governor he said he supported the current Massachusetts law on abortion. Now that he's seeking the republican nomination for the presidency, his view has "matured" and he is now anti-abortion. Well, at least he's mastered the political art of pandering....

See for yourself

Last night I raved about Lily Tomlin and Meryl Streep at the Oscars. See for yourself here, or view below:

Oscar Trivia, 2006

You'd have to go back 50 years to 1956 for the last time all six top Oscars - Picture, Director, and all four acting prizes - were spread among six different films. I guess that makes this year's Oscars one for the books after all!