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Max: Also MIA

On week ago, someone cut open my wife and found a baby.

Since then, the Mrs. and I have spent every moment either feeding the kid, changing her diapers and (rarely) sleeping. Perhaps in a few months I might recover enough brain matter to write something that might be of interest to our many fans.

Jericho: On Hiatus

So, my life is changing a whole lot right now.

As I have previously mentioned, my wife and I are divorcing. The first thing on our list is separating our homes. She and I are moving to new apartments this weekend.

As most of my friends know, I lost my job last week.

So, I'll be in a new place, by myself, soon to be divorced and I'm out of work.

I'm reminded of the scene in City Slickers where Billy Crystal tells another character that his life is "a do-over". A friend said that I'm starting with a clean slate and can rebuild again.

That's a very positive way to look at a man who suddenly has next to nothing and not a lot of prospects.

However, as long time friends and readers know, I'm not a glass-is-half-empty kind of guy - I'm a the-fucking-glass-is-empty-what's-wrong-with-you-people kind of guy. I've spent the last two days killing myself moving my stuff and talking to myself. I think I'm well on my way to living on the streets talking to pigeons.

Either way, I'll be packing up the computer here in a little while. I don't have internet access set up at my new place and with my lack of income, I might wait a bit before I do. So, this could be my last entry for a while.

Good luck, have fun and give a bum a buck - that bum could be me!

Max: 420 Science

Max: Unsure If You're Canadian?

Find the answers you seek here.

Jericho: Divingle?

Okay, I'll cop to it, too much of my life is online.

I have the little blog here, I have other blogs, I have email accounts on Gmail, Hotmail, AOL and Yahoo. I have an LJ, a MySpace, a FaceBook, a Twitter and so many others I can't keep track of it so that's why I have an account on Spock!

Just about all of these have a profile of some sort. Name, Location, Sex, Likes, Dislikes and Marital Status.

Marital Status.

I haven't started changing any of this info yet. I'm still married, we haven't even started paper work yet. We won't be "Separated" until the end of the month.

But that's not really the thing that I'm thinking about right now. I've been Single. I've been Married. I "get" why you would want to advertise these facts, why those profile-bits are important to who you are and why you would want other people to know these facts about you. They form important points of who you are.

However, I'm not sure about the "Divorced" marital status option. Almost every profile I have ever run across lists this option. I never paid much attention to it before, but I'm seeing it everywhere now.

What image are you advertising by saying you are "Divorced"? Are you telling people:

"I'm a failure at marriage!"
"Once bitten, twice as excited!"
"I'm a severe serial monogamist!"
"Desperate, lonely and abandoned!"
"I did it once, you can get me to do it again!"
"Someone made the mistake of marrying me, you can to!"
"She was a total bitch and I'm totally innocent of blame!"
"Poor communication and alcohol are not just a choice, they are a lifestyle!"

Then there is also a question of time. A Divorced person is Single. But, how long do you go before you stop identifying as Divorced and go back to just being Single? Are you Divorced forever? If you were married for six weeks, are you Divorced for the next sixty years? Or, is this all personal choice? Are you allowed to identify as Single or Divorced depending on the message you are trying to send? Is there a caché to being Divorced?

Am I just over thinking this?

Max: Mark King is God

Jericho: I wish I could write this stuff!

Do you think this guy escaped Canada? Do you think he was fleeing all the socialism?

Max: Vt. Legislature Legalizes Gay Marriage

Vermont Legislature Legalizes Gay Marriage - Local News Story - WPTZ Plattsburgh

A ten-year battle to grant same sex couples the legal right to marry culminated in a dramatic political showdown Tuesday at the Statehouse with the house voting to override Gov. Jim Douglas' veto of the gay marriage bill.

The House voted 100-49 to override the veto Tuesday. The vote tally was greeted by rousing applause in the House chamber.

For those keeping score, Vermont is the first state to legalize gay marriage through legislation rather than adjudication.

Max: Bart Ehrman, the Un-Dawkins

The old subversive line goes, "The last Christian died on the cross." But it would be more historically accurate to say that Jesus was not a Christian at all, but a Jewish apocalyptic prophet. It was only with his followers that "Christianity" came into existence. Ironically, Jesus preached a profoundly Jewish religion: It was the later Christians (including John and Paul) who turned Christianity into the virulently anti-Semitic religion it was to become.

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[Biblical Scholar Bart] Ehrman is hard to categorize. He's a bomb-throwing moderate, a non-dogmatic rationalist. Unlike outspoken critics of religion such as Sam Harris, he does not regard organized religion as dangerous, nor does he claim that any rational person of intellectual integrity must embrace the same conclusions he does. He insists that he is not out to convert anyone, and has nothing but respect for his fellow scholars who know the same historical things he does about the Bible, yet continue to be devout Christians.

More at Salon.com.

Max: Same Sex Marriage Legal In Iowa

Unanimous ruling: Iowa marriage no longer limited to one man, one woman | DesMoinesRegister.com | The Des Moines Register

The Iowa Supreme Court this morning upheld a Polk County judge’s 2007 ruling that marriage should not be limited to one man and one woman.

The ruling, viewed nationally and at home as a victory for the gay rights movement and a setback for social conservatives, means Iowa’s 5,800 gay couples can legally marry in Iowa beginning April 24.

There are no residency rules for marriage in Iowa, so the rule would apply to any couple who wanted to travel to Iowa.