Organization is fraught with dangers, evidently.

Oh man, I want to hug you. But vacation! Awesome!

Yeah, I think that's probably it. It was just very startling because I otherwise felt pretty much fine. Probably hormones, too.

But thankfully, the Biscuit was here and came solicitously over to poke his nose at me, and was generally furry and helpful. And here are you invisible people.

Ooh, yeah, bookstore over vacation, too. Our little local bookseller does a good job, and I order all the Buffista authored books through there, but I am looking forward to wandering the stacks of a decently sized store, too. There'll be a good one right next to where our donors that we're going to visit live, so we can do that even before the official vacation bit starts.

I have a bunch of mailing to do. I want to practice with my camera a bit more before vacation, and try to cram some more Greek vocabulary into my brain.

Aside from that, cleaning, goofing off, and watching thunderstorms roll through.

A friend of mine was writing a study guide to Moby Dick and one of the study questions she wished she could have used would have gone approximately, " Now do you see why you need to read Shakespeare and the King James Bible?"

Organization is fraught with dangers, evidently.

{{Liese}}

OTOH, my cables are sorted now.

See? Silver lining. I think.

VACAY!

Definite silver lining.

Perkins, you know what I'm doing! But I can't say because it stays in Vegas!

WOOHOO!

Co-worker (a lesbian) speculates that conservatives use the "gay marriage leads to people marrying their pets!" argument because secretly THEY (the conservatives) really want to marry their pets, and the only thing allowing them even the illusion of self-control is the fact that gay people can't marry.

I've actually more or less convinced my friend (and myself) tha 99% or so of marriages beyond 1791 are, in fact, not marriages at all.

Here's how the argument goes: The constitution (and the Bill of Rights) was ratified in 1791.

The First Amendment says "Congress shall pass no law respecting an establishment of religion."

"Respecting" has a couple different meanings: respecting as "in regard to" and respecting as "paying respect to".

"Establishment" also has a couple of different meanings. "Establishment" as a verb meaning "to establish (make or put in place". And "establishment" as a noun "a person, place or thing of religion".

Many marriage licenses are signed solely by the priests (or reverends, fathers, Universal Life Church ordained folk) as acknowledgment that the marriage took place and is legal and binding.

NONE OF THOSE are usually elected and/or appointed REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OR OFFICERS OF THE COURT.

The Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution says, essentially, "Federal law trumps the living fuck out of state and local law."

Therefore, unless the minister/priest/reverend/pagan mistress etc. was ALSO AN ELECTED/APPOINTED OFFICIAL, those marriages are NOT LEGAL under FEDERAL LAW which, as previously stated, TRUMPS THE LIVING FUCK OUT OF STATE AND LOCAL LAW.

Any marriage license not SIGNED by a justice of the peace or county clerk or similar is NOT LEGAL UNDER FEDERAL LAW.

So gay marriage is an open issue. "OUR marriage isn't legal? NEITHER IS YOURS, BREEDER!"

Signed,

A proven breeder.

I would like to go on vacation! Vegas, cruise, Greece, whatever... But I can't.

Anyway, seriously you guys. I got this purse: [link] for $40.

Oh, awesome score.