Tag Archives: marriage

a bachelor’s degree in marriage

We (and by we, I mean me and probably many of you) are at a very peculiar age. It’s an age where I look at my driver’s license (usually when I’m being carded) and cock my head to the side, because I realize I’m a lot older than I feel I am. This feeling is usually abruptly interrupted by the moments when you realize how young you actually are, usually by being schooled by someone much older. Which is good, because we all need teachable moments. I learned a lesson so valuable the other night, that I would cock my head to the side until I broke my damn neck, just to make sure I never forget it.

A friend and former co-worker is getting married this weekend. He had a bachelor get-together, which falls somewhere between just another night and a bachelor party… Continue reading

To split rent or swap rings: that is the tyd.com question

Quick survey for our readers out there with significant others (disclaimer: if that person is right next to you, it’s all good.  You can answer silently): Would you move in with your baby-boo, or vice versa, even if you two weren’t engaged?  Be honest now, because if you answered no, the Joneses may be leaving you in the dust

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Urban-Jungle Fever? Not in New Awlins

Love knows no color

Thank you, Louisiana, for setting us back 50 years.  A New Orleans judge refused to issue a marriage license to a couple simply because ::drumroll:: they were not the same race!  <cue gasps from my egalitarian yuppie militia> Settle down, settle down.  I know what you’re thinking, but I can assure you, Judge Bardwell is NOT  racist.  Just look at what he had to say!

“I’m not a racist. I just don’t believe in mixing the races that way,” Bardwell told the Associated Press on Thursday. “I have piles and piles of black friends. They come to my home, I marry them, they use my bathroom. I treat them just like everyone else.”

<cue coonery> Really??  You mean I’z can go pee in yo HOUSE?  AFTA you marry me n’ muh missus???  Well HOT DAMN!! <end coonery> Well, if you want to get technical, Judge Keith Bardwell really meant that his concern was for any baby that might result from the union (you are TOO kind, your honor).   He believes that the offspring of such marriages fall into a societal void; He had already come to the conclusion that most of black society does not readily accept offspring of such relationships, and neither does white society, he said.  I’m sorry Judge Bardwell, but I think these kittens would beg to disagree.  Continue reading