tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15034156.post8082975234495003075..comments2023-05-31T09:03:34.365-05:00Comments on Trailer Park Paradise: Never let the facts get in the way of a good argument.Sabrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13746486966764162127noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15034156.post-90619176261608050012012-07-30T14:01:19.015-05:002012-07-30T14:01:19.015-05:00Good job tracking down that study. I note also it ...Good job tracking down that study. I note also it is a survey of <b>clients</b> of LGBT groups. I.e., mostly LBGT. <br /> <br />As to the "post-mortem" benefits thing, the obig problem for her [non-]spouse would be if [unlikely] Ms. Ride died intestate - relatives would be able to grab off much of any estate. This, as I mention fairly often, is actually what started the "marriage license" of the government. An unsung genius bureaucrat (not always an oxymoron) got fed up with the number of court cases, and with the all-too-common-result of "marriage legally unproveable - estate awarded to third cousin" verdicts, and arrived at a solution. The government would license priests to in turn sign a "license" which the government would store, and which would be available to prove marriage: it was (and remaons) lots cheaper than a will, with the added advantage that people are far from as reluctant to take advantage of it: and in the absence of a will, it determines the distribution of the estate. <br /> <br />When? Not sure, but it was City of Rome, pre-Empire. And spread rapidly.John Ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00801684602403824157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15034156.post-16700343042934675162012-07-29T14:57:29.480-05:002012-07-29T14:57:29.480-05:00Thanks for the mental kick-start, now I'm wond...Thanks for the mental kick-start, now I'm wondering if who I like to sleep with really defines who I am as an individual. I usually just joke that I must be black, since I went to a majority-black high school, I've lived in two parts of town that are majority black, and I like sleeping with fat white women. Perhaps I can get a gubmint grant to study this phenomena (and enrich my gun collection at the same time!) It really does boil down to a self-inflicted violation of privacy, as nobody cares who or what you do in your own bedroom but you, and if you *make* it an issue by being so open about it, then you shouldn't be surprised when others get offended and offer their own opinions, which you then get offended by in turn. <br /><br />I think a better rebuttal to the posted graphic would be to share one of the ones floating around that opine "You can't trust everything you read on the internet" attributed to Abe Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Gandhi, Joan of Arc, whoever. Tho you might have to explain it to them, and that takes all the fun out of it.Mattexianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09364636677279037964noreply@blogger.com