How cavalier of you to minimize the anti-gay amendment passed in Virginia. As a lesbian living in Virginia, every document that my partner and I have to protect each other is null and void come January 1 and you think this isn't a big deal? Our wills, medical directives, financial powers of attorney, the joint survivorship rights amount to a hill of beans and if something happens to my partner, her deadbeat brother can step in and take everything. If one of us gets into an accident and is rendered unconscious, a hospital can deny the other the right to visit because we aren't family. No big deal to you. How lucky you are but because you're ignorant of the real implication of the anti-gay amendment, please don't go spouting bullshit and find out the facts first.

Anonymous - you've totally missed the point - this is is not about wanting Mary Cheney to make the same choices as I have - if you'd bothered to read my posting, you'd realize that for me, this is about civil rights. I didn't post anything about wanting to be married either, so again, try responding to what's in my posting versus what you've imagined I might've written. Hopefully, you and your partner will never be faced with a situation where you're denied the ability to make decisions on account of your same sex relationship. Have you thought about moving to Virginia since you're so enamored of Mary Cheney? You'll love the stench of second class citizenship over here.

Well, if your wife has a problem with you dipping your muffin (or any other bread-like substance) into your egg yolk, I say forget the muffin and just lick the yolk directly from the plate! Ask her whether she thinks you should bend down and lick the plate on the table or whether you should raise the plate to your mouth.

Next time you need to see a doctor, dentist or any kind of specialist and he happens to be from another country, I hope you'll have the courage to walk right out and decline his/her services. Or if you end up in an emergency room and the attending doctor is a foreigner or has a slight accent you don't recognize, I hope you'll get right out of there. Or if you're rendered unconscious, you might want to include on your medical directive that any emergency room personnel be American-born. Likewise, when your basement floods, or your sink backs up and the plumber who comes to your house appears to be a foreigner, please turn him/her away immediately.

I work in DC and for the record, very few of the Latino population is from Mexico. Most are from El Salvador, Guatamala. The congestion is due to poor road planning, not immigrants.

No Name Given has completely distorted the facts and revised history so much about DC. I've worked in DC for 25 years now and the neighborhood of Adams Morgan was predominantly Latino - they were displaced to make way for yuppie condos. On Capitol Hill, African Americans were displaced to make way for gentrification by whites working on the Hill. Latinos had nothing to do with that. Same thing with Georgetown ...used to be predominantly black until embassy-related personnel moved in - gentrification is not limited to Republicans and/or Democrats. All No Name Given can do is spout nonsense about us liberals living in McMansions driving our limos. Perhaps by some standards my single level 1000 square foot home is a McMansion and my 19 year old Toyota is a limo. As for the rich daddy he assumes left me this large inheritance ... NNG must know something I don't 'cause I'm getting flat feet waiting for that inheritance. My dad worked a blue-collar job, alongside immigrants and we were only too happy to be invited to their homes. People like NNG have a chip on their shoulder and will use whatever means to justify their xenophobic rants.

This article and its patent bias reminds me a lot of an article that was published by salon about raw food for pets. In that article the writer couldn't find any anecdotal evidence that raw food for pets was harmful, so she resorted to ridiculing us guardians who feed our pets raw food. I urge people to watch the documentary "The Future of Food" available on Netflix. It's horrifying to see how the USDA and the FDA are in cahoots with chemical companies that are determined to patent seeds and even genes regardless of the disastrous consequences. These self same agencies that are supposed to hold the public's best interests foremost are loaded with industry executives. The increasing incidence of allergies to dairy is partly because of the industrialization of diary products. Rather than focus on purported dangers of raw milk, perhaps we should be concerned more with the fact that the pharmaceutical industry has a vested interest in factory farming and us not consuming locally produced raw milk.