A friend of mine (a self proclaimed liberal democrat) put up a post on Opine about privatizing marriage. I know it is a popular refrain from many here on /. They feel that marriage should be "just a contract" that anyone can write up as they please.

I've said a few times that I've never seen desktops with the same grandeur and artistry that I saw ten years ago. At that time Rasterman was still young, optomistic and dreamy eyed about this emerging Linux desktop. A time before Redhat and corporate mentality eroded all of that unabashed glorious excess.

Luckily I was able to find some screenshots from back in the day. All I can say is check them out for yourself...

Recently in an on line discussion about marriage, someone took pause say this...

OnLawn mentioned that he used to be a libertarian in post #19:

I understand that there are a lot of former libertarians who find that ideology politically impractical, however, how does one make the philosophic 180 from libertarianism to ideological communitarianism? (Assuming that label fits).

Much of my recent Slashdot discussions have centered on one salient point --the debate over marriage is one of definition. At the legal root of the fight is simply

Feel free to check back often, suggest quotes.

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(This one was provided by The Tibetan Traveler, a poster on another forum).

This may be suprising to some, but I actually view equality to be a primary consideration in defining marriage. Too often we pit ideologies against each other that are not mutually exclusive or incompatible, in this case it is equality and marriage. Marriage is perfectly equal already.

Thank you in advance for participating in this loosley formated survey where it is hoped the most noble values expressed wins, not plurality. The phraseology was too big for the subject line so here is the real question in full.

Question: What more is marriage to you than is covered in this definition of domestic partnership?

A few guidelines:

This just crossed my desk. After my last journal entry about Congressional Authorities being yay or nay on FMA, I've found there is a second alternative. I'm all for options here, and this one seems to be a solid comprimise...

U.S. Rep Fred Upton said Monday that he wants to clarify his position on attempts to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban same-sex marriages...

On the subject of St Serge and Baccus, I listened to a very interesting report on NPR's All Things Considered. The relevant part of the transcript is provided below. The interviewer is Margot Adler, the air date is February 23, 2004. Daniel Mendelsohn is a lecturer on the classics at Princeton University.

I've been contemplating what angle to give Chapter 10 for a month now. Its just dry geneology. Important but dry.

This one is going to be a bit of a fast forward of points of interest in Chapters 8 and 9. Each of these worth a journal topic of their own, I invite you to tell me what you think...

Genesis 8:21 for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth;