That vicious nest of liberal vipers, slate.com, has published a typical left-wing-hysteria article decrying Kansas's nobly egalitarian House Bill No. 2453 as an institutionalisation of "anti-gay segregation" and "explicit permission to discriminate against gay couples", even in the most essential state services ( Read more... )

Today akeela and I signed the orotundly-titled Bescheinigung über die Anmeldung der Begründung der Lebenspartnerschaft: a Certificate of Registration for Formation of a Civil Partnership. Which of course means, that a civil servant has rubber-stamped our intention, several verbs in the future, to form a civil partnership ( Read more... )

rapante? You can exhale...

This isn't yet entirely definite: we'll be seeing a lawyer in a few days to make sure we fully understand the formal aspects of what we're getting into, and (s)he may have some startling news for us-but, based on our reading so far, it seems to make every kind of sense. After eight years together, it's merely expressing what' ( Read more... )

Jeremy Paxman, the famously contentious British television interviewer, is arguably something of a fraud, since his reputation is founded on an interview where he asked the same question seventeen times because he couldn't think what else to say. But there are cases where I look at him working and I think that, like Kurosawa's lowly central ( Read more... )