The Fix apparently does not understand the Daily Show's news cycle. The show tapes in the afternoon so Stewart's coverage of the SOTU will be Tuesday night. Unless there's a live show that's not annouced on Comedy Central's website.

Why is Jake Gyllenhaal nominated as a supporting actor? He had almost as much screen time as Heath Ledger. This doesn't make sense and skews the category.

While Tierney's column did pull out of a total nose dive, isn't it great how men and women are, uniformly, husbands and wives? Such husbands also are, as he reiterated through the piece, "helping" with housework. These dinosaurs just can't die off fast enough. - Jen Gaboury

Does Holmes have a paypal account?

Cheers to Broadsheet for highlighting this under-reported issue!

Readers who click through to the enews piece will find a link to Human Rights Watch's report, Family Unvalued, on same-sex immigration reform: http://hrw.org/reports/2006/us0506/

Additionally, the Alternatives to Marriage Project - on whose board I serve - is interested in seeing immigration reform that would not require civil marriage. A marriage ceremony in itself does not authenticate a relationship in the eyes of immigration authorities. Couples are required to submit evidence and undergo questioning about their lives together in order to emigrate. As such, the requirement of civil marriage could be dropped altogether. AtMP believes that families come in all shapes and sizes and that the state does not have a place in saying there is only one kind of valid relationship, recognized through marriage. You can learn more about AtMP at www.unmarried.org.

- Jen Gaboury

To Jeffrey:

Yes, the state has the authority to dictate the terms of immigration. But why does that make (heterosexual) civil marriage the only kind of intimate relationship it will recognize? - Jen Gaboury

Hey, We don't need to debate with Rebecca Traister about Demi Moore’s alleged plastic surgery. We can find out straight from L'Orreal what they think about the place of surgical intervention and women who look “over 30ish.”

This month’s O Magazine (p. 139), an issue on “aging brilliantly,” includes a L'Oreal ad for Wrinkle De-Crease Collagen Filler, sold under the tagline: "Because 30ish skin can wait for surgery." Shame on L'Oreal for its endorsement of surgery. When I spotted this ad the other day, I threw away a L’Oreal product out of my makeup bag. I’m going to go out of my way not to purchase L'Oreal and keep on supporting Dove.

If you feel like telling L’Oreal what you think about nip-and-tucked Demi (c’mon, just look at the pictures) as the standard bearer for beauty or fear-based campaigns about the need for surgery over 30ish, you can contact L’Oreal Paris at this address:

http://www.loreal.com/_en/_ww/tools/contact/general_info/form_general.aspx?

- Jen Gaboury

Both krd and Max Kaehn make important points in that NJ and Vermont are not – at this point anyway – going to adopt the same structure for civil unions and that, traditionally, marriage is a religious institution.

Vermont's civil unions allows for greater freedom with the designation of reciprocal beneficiaries - or non-romantic pairs. And ending the legal recognition of marriage would advance the separation between church – or established religions – and state.

While a small part of me wants to cheer for the partial step forward New Jersey took today toward ending discrimination against queer folks, I'd rather see government get out of the marriage business all together. Marriage should be a private ceremony for those who desire that form of recognition. Everyone should have access to the social and economic rewards that marriage delivers like health care, the ability to retire, and a tax structure that treats people fairly regardless of the choices one makes in their romantic life.

Bill O'Reilly is correct about one thing. If one legalizes gay marriage, then why not polygamy? And if polygamy and polyamory are endorsed by the state, then why not recognize relationships between multiple siblings raising their children together who want to benefits from the protections that marriage offers? And then how does one legally treat best friends caring for each other in old age. And I can understand when some might object as those relationship don’t seem like marriages – because they aren’t.

It's time to let go of marriage as a civil institution that delivers special rights to particular pairs.

- Jen Gaboury

I've been writing about a similar conversation about CUNY's (City University of New York) Black Male Initiative:

http://www1.cuny.edu/forum/?p=271

And it makes me wonder: is it time to disband women's colleges in the name of deessentialist feminism?

What do others here think?

- Jen Gaboury

This is beside the point, but it's the kind of thing I find highly irritating.

To the anonymous person who posted sanctimoniously about the difference between NY Magazine and the NYT Magazine:

Before you decide to display your fancy knowledge about the difference between between the two publications, check the facts. CR was the cover story of NY Magazine a few weeks ago.

- Jen Gaboury

The answer to this false debate lies with men here who, like Hitchens, "need their funny from men."

Here's my other theory on this article: many women must have told Hitchens that his recent essay on blowjobs in VF was not only stupid -- it was boring.

Obama's race is irrelevant? He is a powerful speaker and great charm. Obama is a moderate and will have broad appeal in the electorate.

But to suggest that his race is irrelevant, and not the source of much of his appeal to white Americans, is ignorant of people's reactions to his as well as broader narratives of American guilt and redemption.

Yay for the new format! If people find some of it too difficult to digest in three minutes, they can, like, skip items to skim for the flotsam and jetsam that is most entertainment news. Three cheers for broader culture coverage.