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[California] Supreme Court says same-sex couples have right to marry

(05-15) 10:24 PDT SAN FRANCISCO — Gays and lesbians have a constitutional right to marry in California, the state Supreme Court said today in a historic ruling that could be repudiated by the voters in November.

In a 4-3 decision, the justices said the state’s ban on same-sex marriage violates the “fundamental constitutional right to form a family relationship.” The ruling is likely to flood county courthouses with applications from couples newly eligible to marry when the decision takes effect in 30 days.

SF Chronicle

The football team of the town where I live, the Steelers, are playing the football team of the region where my fiancée grew up, the Giants.

Here, in Pittsburgh.

On our wedding day.

Beginning about two hours into our reception.

I’m thinking things might be ending a little earlier than we originally planned.

(At least it’s not Detroit, where I grew up, playing the Giants. That would be a little too… symbolic for my taste, I’m thinking.)

Protestants baaaad… beer, gooooood…

If this works, I just might be able to give up livejournal for good.

ETA:  I can post by e-mail.  Awesome.  Now if only I could simplify the process of combining and whittling down the categories & links. . . .

A soon to be announced nationally renowned speaker is scheduled to be the keynote speaker for the Pittsburgh Rally for Obama — An Evening of Creative Expression — this Friday, April 4, 2008. The event will be held at CCAC North Side Campus- 800 Ridge Ave — 7 PM — doors will open at 5:30 PM. (Source: Western PA for Obama.)

(update: The “nationally-renowned speaker” is Rep Elijah E Cummings (D-MD), according to Pittsburgh for Obama.)

At the end of a recent review of the shows at the Humana Festival of New American Plays, recently ended at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, Charles Isherwood of the New York Times offers this devastating assessment of one selection:

I have been casting about for something charitable to say about “All Hail Hurricane Gordo,” a comedy by Carly Mensch (still a playwriting fellow at Juilliard) about two kooky, emotionally stunted brothers (Matthew Dellapina and Patrick James Lynch); one kooky, emotionally stunted young woman (Tracee Chimo); and a refreshingly well-adjusted white rabbit (name unavailable).

Perhaps I’ll just say that I loved the rabbit, and leave it at that.

Ouch.

Not long ago, Pittsburgh’s dreadful (but occasionally amusing) Trib PM newspaper ran a bit in its sports section titled “Fallback Careers: Shamed stars Clemens, Bonds receive unusual job offers”—both Clemens and Bonds are free agents this winter, and neither have any hope of playing in the majors again, but both have received offers. From minor league baseball teams, no less.

The Roger Clemens one wasn’t that interesting: The AA-level team in Huntsville, Alabama (a major NASA and rocketry-in-general site) has offered the pitcher occasionally known as “Rocket” the job of portraying the team’s mascot, also known as Rocket. Meh.

However, the Barry Bonds one is great, though it requires a bit more knowledge of his history.

Barry received an offer to work in media relations for the Single-A Lake Elsinore (Calif.) Storm.

The team sent out a tongue-in-cheek statement announcing the club has offered Barry “a cushy media relations position (with slight pay cut from $19.3 million), full use of baseball facilities and, of course, expanded cubicle space with barcalounger and plasma TV.”

“We just think the way he has handled the media with such grace over the years that he would be a perfect fit in our media relations department,” Storm general manager Chris Jones said.

I WANT!

via the wonderfully-named Words For Nerds…

I don’t know if anyone who reads this has ever heard of Amaya, a combination HTML-editor and web browser put out by the group that creates the definition of what HTML is.
(I don’t know if anyone reads this, actually, but that’s beside the point I suppose, and I’m not sure I actually want to find out….)

The spell checker, in at least the two most recent versions of the program, knows the word Californium…. but not California.

(Actually, it doesn’t seem to know any of the states’ names…. or, for that matter, Mexico.)

Addendum:  Perhaps the best ‘word-not-found’, however, is it’s suggestion that by ‘Christ’ I really meant ‘Thrust’.  Thus forming…. the United Church of Thrust.

You know, I could get behind that.