One favorite defense of heterosexual exclusivity in marriage is that marriage is supposed to be for procreation. As gay people cannot reproduce without scientific intervention, the thinking goes, they are not elligible for marriage.
Ah, but what about couples who are childless either by choice or by circumstance? My friend Blogless Missie forwarded me this explanation [...]

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“Unless action is taken,” Bush said, “we can expect more arbitrary court decisions, more litigation, more defiance of the law by local officials, all of which adds to uncertainty.
Pop quiz: Bush is speaking of
a) Alabama Cheif Justice Roy Moore, who defied several court orders demanding the removal of a 2.6 ton granite monument of the [...]

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I like this whole finding people with similar names to confuse your opponents thing. Maybe I’ll give it a shot.

T’BILISI GEORGIA—In what is turning out to be a confusing election season, even President George W. Bush today announced that he was no longer supporting himself for President of the United States.
“I don’t know,” [...]

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If this kind of thing keeps up, we’re going to have to start printing national identification numbers in news stories.

On Feb. 5, the Salon online magazine reported that Bush-Cheney spokesman Terry Holt, citing the Turnipseed-to-Edwards donation, questioned whether the motives behind Turnipseed’s comments about Bush’s service were “pure” or part of a “political attack.”
That [...]

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I have to read comments in the popular blogs more often. I was just reading on
Eschaton that Bush is backing off his “2.6 million new jobs in 2004” statement, excusing the original announcement by saying that number was created by number-crunchers and that Bush is not a statistician.
A commenter responds:

But what I [...]

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