"You shot the Bible Thumper but spared the Militant Lesbian."
 

this may be true, but marriage only exists because it is an institution created by government (in the political and non-political sense - we are governed by the political apparatus and we are "governed" by religious institutions) in order for the participants to derive government-provided benefits. It's a state (and, to a certain extent, church) sanctioned relationship. As a reward for participating in a state-sanctioned relationship, you get perks. So if you don't support getting perks from government (or church), then why would you support marriage for anyone? It's inconsistent.

Sopranos
 

FWIW, DD was doing RSD before he was doing X-Files. He sort of stopped in the mid '90s when the X-files picked up, and then picked RSD up again after it ended. I imagine it appeals to his sense of humor, and it certainly is pretty funny.

DD is hot (in no small part because he is smart, laid back and funny). So is Jon Stewart. Has DD been on the Daily Show? I must find someone with a tape if he has....

bangs
 

I strenuously object?" Is that how it's done? Hm? "Objection, your Honor." "Overruled" "No, no. I STRENUOUSLY object." "Oh. You strenuously object. Then I'll take some time and reconsider.

Luggage & Laptops
 

Amen, sister. And that concept applies to *everything* -- for example, I am always wondering why otherwise intelligent lawyers will treat the IT person (or the word processing staff, or the managing partner's secretary, or the whoever) badly.

And they wonder why I got the snazzy newfangled "color" monitor -- they are all green (or amber) with envy! (hahahaha -- I kill me!)

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,113645,00.html

Someone faked Dear Abby into running a problem Marge Simpson had in real life-

Jeanne Phillips is Abby, and i have her in the DP.

She needs to face up to her error, a little Seppuku is in order.

"You shot the Bible Thumper but spared the Militant Lesbian."
 

Some of the perks are significant in easing the burdens on government -- for example, the benefit of knowing where an intestate's estate will go. Save us all a great deal of hassle trying to figure out whether his wife or his mistress should get the dough.

I have no idea whether this matters to Libertarians, and don't particularly care. Libertarians are just Anarchists with better suits, and equally hypocritical.

bangs
 

Yet, strangely, if you're as hot as Demi Moore that might work.

Luggage & Laptops
 

My sister has been fighting the DMV for nearly two months now in order to get her car registration up to date so she can sell it. Last battle was over the court abstract she needed to prove that she'd paid off all oustanding parking tickets. She presented the receipt that the court gave her with the citation numbers printed on the receipt, and the DMV woman would not take the receipt as proof that everything was taken care of. I'm thankful that my sister is a hipster pacifist, or else she'd probably be hitting the DMV with an assault rifle sometime soon.

DP? At her age? It's only a matter of time before she moves on to ATM.

No. You have her mother Pauline Phillips. Jeanne Phillips took over a couple of years ago because her mom is too ill to do the column. Pauline Phillips = good choice for death pool. Jeanne Phillips = younger, horsey-faced, bad-advice-giving daughter.

http://images.ucomics.com/images/uex...e_phillips.jpg

Dear Abby
 

If not for falling for the joke, then for penning this tidbit:

"To save the marriage," she wrote, "he might be willing to change back to the man who bowled you over in the first place."

(I would've suggested she get a new set of pins)

Oh. still, She fucked up and didn't teach her kid right- only one way to save face now Pauline.....

By double penetration with you and Coltrane?

hells angels
 

I think the police are just freaking out.

"You shot the Bible Thumper but spared the Militant Lesbian."
 

Why would all the benefits of marriage be removed? Many of them don't offend libertarian sensibilities at all. Certainly, marriage existed long before political and religious institutions were subsidizing it financially. Besides the financial gov't provided benefits, there are lots other kinds of state-sponsored perks (the legal presumptions of authority to act for each other, joint ownership of assets, etc.), religious perks (admission to heaven after having sex, primarily), and, entirely apart from those, social perks (being recognized as a permanent couple (whether others approve personally or not), social sanction if you violate your vows, some additional security for men that they aren't raising someone else's children, even the comfort of being able to slip into socially acknowledged "roles" as a couple can be a very real benefit - or detriment, depending on your view). Lots of privately contracted benefits accrue, too - pension and health care benefits most obviously spring to mind, and they are often keyed to marriage.

Any or all of these types of "benefits" survive without financial support from the general tax base, which is the type of benefit/perk to which libertarians are primarily opposed. If the gov't wants to provide a system that simplify the way in which people designate their co-owners, powers of attorney or default heirs, or who they want covered by their private employee benefits, why shouldn't they? That isn't something Libertarians object to - just the idea that such a system should exist but not be made available to all citizens exercising free choice.