Pearl Jam cancels North Carolina show

Seems a lot more likely that you missed mine, which was simply that trans men have been using men's rooms as long as they've been passing.

 

Like kidney stones?

 

The old saw about North Carolina being a vale of humility between two mountains of conceit has been turned on its head.

When a South Carolina legislator tried to introduce something comparable, Nikki Haley and her staff shot it down with a quickness. Never thought I'd see the day.

 

Nikki's got bigger fish to fry ...

 

Amazingly, the only thing probably keeping Alabama from shooting itself in the urinal cake is the governor's current, ahem, troubles. But we are still on the verge of abolishing marriage licenses as part of a long tradition of governance by hissy fit.

Bill to end Alabama marriage licenses up in House committee

 

There were probate judges who had serious issues with issuing licenses to interracial couples, too. Fucking bigot.

 

Curt Schilling decides to go and step in it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/21/sports/baseball/curt-schilling-espn-transgender.html

 

Of course, no one's ever really explained to me why I need the state's permission to enter into a marital union ...

 

Taxes, Quant. Even Krugman knows that.

 

Guy I was in school with from first grade on through college was hell-bent to marry his gal even though he wasn't finished with his degree. His (and her) parents wanted them to wait, as I recall, but the (ahem) pressure was apparently building. Anyway, so he and his gal decide to go ahead and get legally married but keep it quiet, and then later indulge their families with a church wedding. So they trotted off to the courthouse, got themselves all licensed, then quietly got someone out of town to marry 'em. All was well ... except they forgot that the weekly in my little corner of bumfuck S.C. prints pretty much anything that moves in the courthouse, including (you guessed it) the issuance of marriage licenses.

 

Aside from the fact that marriage predates religion, are you really unable to understand the various ways in which the state overseas such unions? Besides inheritance succession, there is legal residence as well. If anything, the state has more of a stake in marriage than anyone else.

 

Pearl Jam cancels one day, Pearl Washington the next.