I love nurses! They’ve been unfailingly helpful and kind to me when I’ve been hospitalized esp at CPMC campuses… I don’t know how you do it.
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The Queen fell ill and hired Elton John as her dresser.
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What a treasure Colbert is.
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If there were a large boost to the economy because of marriage equality THAT would be a real middle finger to repubs considering how they think they have the best solution to any economic problem…let the unregulated free market deal with any hiccup. i.e do nothing. Bush found out the hard way that was not always the best approach in 2007-8 when he realized the country was falling into a really serious depression because of his policies.
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Meanwhile, the various idiots in the GOP are losing their minds trying to figure out how to deal with this. Huckabee already claimed he doesn’t acknowledge the decision of an “imperial court”. For the record, people still are favorable about Huckabee, http://www.topicalwinds.com/Topics/Mike-Huckabee.php?topic=161, how I don’t know.
I look forward to dancing on the GOP’s grave.
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Or like this from Borowitz…
My little brother would be grinning and crying right now. He mourned with thousands of others at SF City Hall Plaza when Harvey Milk and George Moscone were assassinated by Dan White. Later, he rioted with thousands of others at SF City Hall Plaza when Dan White used “the twinkie defense” to get off with a slap on the wrist. Like many, he quietly, gleefully hoisted a brew when Dan White offed himself. He died of an a AIDS-related cancer in 1989, at the age of 36. I miss him.
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You should see the rightwing heads exploding on facebook over that photo-hilarious!
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Fox is focusing on saying “Media are concentrating on happy couples” this morning as if “The Media” doesn’t include Fox. As if Fox is some sort of “other animal” immune to what the media publish.
Weird.
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Mixed Marriages
http://members.efn.org/~hkrieger/weddings.htm
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Question, now that the right to be married has been affirmed by the supreme court as a right that all states have to accept does it not also mean that other rights, as in the 2nd amendment and CCW’s issued in other states must be honored by all states?
Rights are rights, none more important than another.
Sorry Lew, but you can’t talk about love prevailing and Scalia sodomized in prison all in the same post.
You see, there’s an bit of an inconsistency there.
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Tasking, shmasking.
It’s been a week for multikvelling. Congratulations, America!
But I don’t know anybody—especially my British friends—who can stand Phil the Greek. My heart goes out to HRH.
In addition to the overweening idiocy of that remark per se, what on earth would make you expect such licenses (which are hardly fundamental rights: they are licenses which must be denied to convicted felons, for example, and may be denied under state rules for specific misdemeanors—try that with the right to wed) would be any more transferable to states other than the state of issue than licenses to fish, to hunt, or to practice medicine or law?
Yours has to have been the most jejune post I’ve seen on this site. Congratulations, the booby prize is yours, and well-earned.
Everything I’ve ever read about Phillip echoes what you say. Not liked, perhaps even something of a climber looking for legitimacy through marriage, and his mother was a deeply strange woman. But the sheer joy she’s feeling as an unencumbered young princess playing with the dashing crew is a delight to behold.
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It is indeed. It just helps to appreciate it all the more if we can temporarily block from our conscious what we know about him.
This was Phillips’s mother, truly something of a nutter. The royals fascinate me partly because they are not democratic, but don’t get me wrong, a Founder, Hamilton, has been on my reading list lately.
A great granddaughter of Queen Victoria, Prince Philip’s mother married into the Greek royal family – only to see the Greek monarchy overthrown by revolution. Fleeing into exile, she suffered a severe nervous breakdown. She was locked away in mental hospitals and subjected to experimental treatments by psychiatrists - including Sigmund Freud himself.
The trauma had a shattering effect on Princess Alice’s marriage and led to a fractured childhood for her only son Prince Philip.
Philip’s mother eventually fought her way back from mental illness, and became an unlikely hero of World War Two - risking her life to hide a Jewish family from the Nazis. When her son married the future Queen Elizabeth in 1948, Alice turned down the option of a cozy royal life. Instead she chose to dedicate herself to working with the poor in Greece, gave away all her possessions and even founded her own religious order.
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