Letters to the Editor
Electro Robot
Published Letters: 1577 Editor's Choice: 18
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Derbig Mooser
[Read the article: California's marriage ruling -- what it means and what it doesn't mean]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Actually, asshole I had other things to attend to. But I already told you to do precisely what you think you're threatening me with, twice. Feel free, really, please please please do. Go ahead.
Anyway here is what this law means. It means practical changes real world scenarios. Glenn loves to posit abstract theories about Con Law but he typically misses the real world picture. This law will change the way public and private sector employees are generally given employee benefits. Insurance companies will try to spin it for a case to make benefits more not less expensive.
Moreover you will see changes in probate law, non health insurance regulations, family law, tax law, mortgage banking as well as living wills and the more useful medical proxies. It will also alter to some extent real estate titles.
But please, please carry on with your silly abstract platitudes. You and Arne. I'm sure you can mount another assault on some group or another.
Again, feel free, I dare you.
PS, how many of your long-ish term relationships have failed in the past? You have a real problem with not being the center of attention.
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Seems lightweight
[Read the article: Reading your way to a Y chromosome]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Violent Bare it Away (O'Connor)
The Moviegoer (Percy)
Invisible Man (Ellison)
The Decameron (Bocaccio)
The Life of Johnson (Boswell)
Longitude (Sobel)
Hun (Burgess)
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naschbac
[Read the article: California's marriage ruling -- what it means and what it doesn't mean]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Easy now all those previously non recognized relationships have legal standing. Now gay couples where one partner dies have to give up everything to the decedents blood survivors. That will now change. And most states don't let two unrelated people sign a co equal mortgage for non commercial property (that is, where they are unincorporated). Likewise in P&C law over a 'household' there household has been strictly defined. Now when your gay partner gets sued for killing someone in a DUI, you're off the hook. No longer - not when there are joint household assets. And as far as living wills and medical proxies, most hospitals don't recognize any non-legal 'familial' relationship unless there are literally no other options. And oh, I left out custody law and child support. That's a biggie. So yeah, things will change.
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Something either is or is not something
[Read the article: The California decision and the presidential campaign]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Civil Union" is a milquetoast way of avoiding an answer either way. If a civil union is legally indistinguishable from marriage then it is marriage. It matters nothing what you call it. If it's not legally indistinguishable then it's more of the same second class status. End of story.
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Here's a delightful nugget from Paul Ash
[Read the article: California's marriage ruling -- what it means and what it doesn't mean]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Buon appetito, penis breath. :-D"
Stay Classy, Paul.
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Moose's animal rape fetish
[Read the article: California's marriage ruling -- what it means and what it doesn't mean]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"by bringing up orgies involving farm animals and five-year-olds.
I never get invited to anything! Even the stuff I can dress for."
Paul is obsessed with penises, at least they're human penises, we think.
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tbozrulez
[Read the article: Reading your way to a Y chromosome]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Oh they did. You must sit down.
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The eBayification of everything
[Read the article: Ask the pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Flying will turn into the full contact shopping 'experience' everything else has. Or, people will simply take more cruises where for the most part your vacation/travel dollar is price-fix (sans booze). Or, what you will see is Disney and similar companies branding their OWN airlines for one price bundled pricing to select destinations. And to be honest, I'd rather be flown by Disney which DOES customer service, than Air-Sobibor Airlines. I'd even pay more if it meant I didn't arrive somewhere in a homicidal funk.
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You need to not care.
[Read the article: How I misspent my European vacation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I took 15 people to the Louvre in August. The water bottles alone were $80. Then tickets, food, bus and train fare back to the burbs. I still don't understand why the French love to eat overpriced duck where you get it from the Grande Marche with the head still on.
Anyway you need to wear loose cotton, have a bottle of wine handy and not care.
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Oh we don't speak to those people anymore
[Read the article: If I die, I want my friends to raise my children]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We hate them and they hate us. But at the time it was a good plan. You should keep these plans formal, documented and updated. You never know the perfect family you agreed on years ago is now fighting over who has to pay the ex-dog's rehab and THEIR kids are a psychotic train wreck. Some of your closest friends have drug habits you don't know about.
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dclaw
[Read the article: California's marriage ruling -- what it means and what it doesn't mean]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No, I'm merely pointing out that rights in the abstract are to the landed middle class of America, for most part really a proxy for all the procedural things that truly matter. I really wish people would talk straight about the real micro-details instead of this grand sweeping polemic about constitutionality. It will interesting to see how the gay community tackles the downstream consequences of those rights. Lots of people never get around to adequately documenting their own lives, so they forget to leave a will, and such. That's why we have these god awful probate courts that hand out property to the dead partners blood relations and not the partner. And if you think there won't some nuclear fallout, I'll tell you that I know battle hardened Marines who will practice ANY kind of law but family law. Family law is bar none the place where everyone's soul and sanity goes to die.
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MoveOn don't do Nuance
[Read the article: MoveOn ad: correction]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You really have to hit them over the head with a toaster, don't you? Either that or they suffer from HIPS (humorless internet pricks syndrome)
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I would like to hear WHAT he would say
[Read the article: "Hardball": Barack Obama is no Neville Chamberlain ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obama conveniently sort of tossed out that "I will reach out my loving arms" stuff w/o actually articulating what he would talk about, why, covering which areas, what agenda and with what goal in mind. I'd LIKE to talk to the my dead Grandfather too. That's not saying what I would have to say to him.
I mean I can understand Matthews cherry picking his own guests so he can throat rape them on air. That's his job. He's a bully and a tyrant. But before you all get in a man-love pile with him, someone's got to explain what Obama would do, more or less in terms we can write down on a sheet of paper. All I've heard are playground platitudes like "Being nice is nice".