Hooking up
Ah, doesn’t it sound like enormous fun to be a college student in the era of the casual hookup? Not. Oh, I know some people find it fun. Or perhaps they just tell themselves they find it fun. And I … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Men and women; marriage and divorce and sex
If women were in charge
Heather Wilhem rightly skewers an idea that has long seemed to me absurd on its face (and that many women, and even some men, seem to believe): that if women were in charge of the world, it would somehow be … Continue reading →
Marriage: when?
In the annals of embarrassing-mother moments, Susan Patton’s letter to the Princeton paper—exhorting girls (women?) at the school to look around at wonderful guys such as her son (a student there) and consider them a great pool of marriage material … Continue reading →
I love this story
Here’s another story about love coming late in life, which seems to be an emerging theme for today. I also love the fact that this reunited couple both report having had happy marriages before they got back together (after becoming … Continue reading →
Mark Sanford is engaged…
…in campaigning for a vacant House seat in South Carolina as the official Republican nominee, having won the runoff election. Yes, that Mark Sanford, the one who sort of lost his mind and ran off, not to the Appalachian trail … Continue reading →
Confusion if DOMA’s overruled
The fact that if SCOTUS overrules DOMA the result will be conflict of laws over who is married and who is not should come as absolutely no surprise. In fact, one of the reasons for the passage of the act … Continue reading →
Getting Dr. Carson, and the gotcha-Republican quotes du jour
It had to happen, didn’t it? The MSM and the left (is that becoming redundant?) scours Republican utterances for evidence of bigotry on a daily (perhaps hourly?) basis. And sure enough, every now and then someone slips according to the … Continue reading →
The SSM slippery slope?
What slippery slope? See this: Above, you’ll find a short video composed of the floor speeches some top Democrats made about SSM. At the time, Republicans wanted to block gay marriage in Massachusetts by amending the constitution with an official … Continue reading →
DOMA unconstitutional?
Signs may be pointing to the idea that SCOTUS will strike down Congress’s 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) as unconstitutionally exceeding federal power. That’s because Justice Kennedy (who may be the only one who counts) appears to be leaning … Continue reading →
More on same-sex marriage and the law
Because of the current SCOTUS hearings on two cases involving the legality of same-sex marriage, you can read thousands of new articles about it, discussing the social science aspects (see this, for example, about that dubious data), the cultural ramifications, … Continue reading →
Will SCOTUS punt on gay marriage?
Tom Goldstein at SCOTUSblog thinks so: The bottom line, in my opinion, is that the Court probably will not have the five votes necessary to get to any result at all, and almost certainly will not have five votes to … Continue reading →
Marriage trends: later
Ross Douthat describes what’s been happening to marriage lately (pun intended): …[L]ate marriage is entangled with the story of rising out-of-wedlock births, thanks to what the authors [of this report] call “the great crossover” – the fact that the age … Continue reading →