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.

I was married by the mayor of Hillsborough, OH. I guess it's legal under the constitution!

Aw, Liese. Stumbling across old forks in the road, especially fraught ones like yours, is always unsettling.

Oddly, as you were posting that, I was combing through my email to find a doc and ended up reading all my crazed correspondence during the house-hunt & buy. HOLY SHIT THAT WENT DOWN FAST! I got a rush just reading it again. 5 days after seeing it. 5 days after the first tour of houses. 5. God. I'd only committed to looking a couple weeks before.

And then the emails in prep for the trip. And the trip. And no wonder I'm often turning around and wondering who is this person I am now? Been a lot of changes the past few months. A lot of forks where I've taken the left when I always used to take the right. I'm changing in response and that's changing my world even more. It can't help but. It's this crazy tail-eating dragon.

It's a bit overwhelming.

I was married by the mayor of Hillsborough, OH. I guess it's legal under the constitution!

Yep, flea, no problem there.

Oh, awesome score.

Right? I haven't had a real leather purse in forever.

In other random news, the guy checking me out at the library (checking out my books, not checking me out) was talking about how he wishes Buffy were on True Blood. Good times.