marriage

Duggar and Cheater Shaming

By Erik Loomis

In General

On August 20, 2015

I pretty much agree with everything about Amanda Marcotte's discussion of the Ashley Madison hack and Josh Duggar. Like her, I felt really icky about the whole thing since, while it's not easy to feel bad for people who cheat on their partners, why should...

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The Sexiest Thing You Can Have

By Erik Loomis

On December 2, 2014

Above: The greatest aphrodisiac known to humanity, the union card. What is sexier than union membership? Nothing of course: Who knew that a union card was a turn-on? Well, that.

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Sexism and the Marriage Proposal

By Erik Loomis

On December 5, 2012

Amanda Marcotte has some interesting commentary on the inherent sexism of the marriage proposal. Having been down this road a couple of times now, the entire marriage structure is sexist..

A Marriage I Would Not Go Through With

By Erik Loomis

In General

On October 26, 2011

Seriously? When Taylor Branch and his wife, Christy, exchanged vows in 1978, Branch had to do more than promise to remain faithful through sickness and health: he also had to give up football. Branch had been a standout high school football player in Atlanta before...

Linnaeus I have ancestry from multiple European nations. Where do I go?
The plot to nullify the 14th Amendment · November 27, 2024
heckblazer When the Supreme Court is itself lawless and making decisions divorced from precedent, tradition and plain text of the Constitution at some point you have no choice but to flat out ignore them. With...
The plot to nullify the 14th Amendment · November 27, 2024
pylon Said elswhere, but we got a box set of the series and bot was there a lot of dreck to wade through to get to the great stuff everyone remembers. Nature of the beats I guess - see SNL, Laugh In, etc.
Mad Men: Greatest TV drama? · November 27, 2024
classof77 I’ve related this story before, but pre-Roe there was a tacit understanding that no one was going to look to closely if a doctor certified that a woman’s health required an abortion. My...
The plot to nullify the 14th Amendment · November 27, 2024
dneus They don't want to take us back to Reconstruction. They want to take us forward to something unprecedentedly bad. Look to abortion and trans rights as the harbingers: our post-Roe gendered...
The plot to nullify the 14th Amendment · November 27, 2024