Married Guy talk:

Went outside for a few minutes to read, married neighbor came out to chat, then we went inside for supper. A few minutes later, my phone rings, an unfamiliar number. It's married neighbor, wants to know if I can come look at some art he wants to buy. I go down the hall, pick out art I like, then we sit on the couch and chat for two hours about moving to LA, the sadness of the crumbling marriage, writing. Nothing flirty, just mournful, it felt like, to me.

moving to LA, the sadness of the crumbling marriage, writing

I had this conversation a lot a couple of years ago. Mournful to be sure. (Not to make it all about me. It just struck a chord.)

Since eHarmony is a private company, it never would occur to me that it would be illegal for it to discriminate against whomever. It's not illegal for Curves to only offer its services to women, is it? (That's not to say that I'm in favor of dating services that discriminate, mind you.) We have lots of lawyers here, I'm sure someone knows.

Well, there was a Jewish dating site that was found to be discriminatory. They appealed and won, using the argument that a Jewish dating site was necessary given that Jews are in the minority. eHarmony couldn't use that same argument, as heterosexuals are not a minority.

Anyway, that's the extent of what I read.

eta: Anyway, companies that restrict by gender are often legal, but not always. For example, private golf courses can't restrict their membership to men only, can they?

Now I'm wondering what the criteria is for businesses like Curves....

Y'all know I have no idea what word(s) eliminated me from spelling bees. I was just happy to be eliminated early.

Firefox having spell check has improved my spelling. Made me just a bit more careful.

no words were corrected in this post.

hrm. I have to say I have no clue where to start looking for precedents in something like the eHarmony case, so I think the wisest thing for me to do is back out of the discussion now, before I say something that exposes me as a self-important boob-brain who talks out of her ass.

It's like that West Wing episode where Josh and CJ meet the upside down map people.

I am a total proponent of the upside down Peters Projection map! So, not actually related to the quote above.

Or that a lot is two separate words.

Pretty sure I only internalized that here. Then again, I have my own pet peeves. Don't we all.

Huh. The dictionary gives "alright" as "non-standard usage." I've seen it used that way plenty of times.

Yeah, I use alright a lot. Heh, and Firefox doesn't correct me on it.

Is this where a girl gets to gripe about Studio 60? I'm watching my tape now and don't any of these people know how the fuck to act during a live show? Harriet? Lawyer chick? And who the hell scheduled a deposition for Matt on the other coast for first thing Saturday morning?

Huh, I'd wondered about the spellcheck stuff in my Firefox browser -- too bad it doesn't offer you alternate spellings. It's pretty easy to turn off, though.

Just reading up about the TB Lawyer -- even if he was getting a medical opinion about his current communicativeness (which, hey, "mostly not" isn't a guarantee, right?), what a stupid thing to do. This isn't even remotely covered by "it's better to apologize than ask permission" as he'd already been explicitly forbidden. And lawyers can't be excused by claiming they didn't know about the law....

Why I love my local morning news:

Female anchor to sports guy: "In a pay-per-view death match, who would you take? Hogzilla or Loch Ness Monster?"