a magnificent trifecta

the stupid rebel flag is coming down all across the south, the supreme court upheld obamacare, and now have confirmed equality of marriage ---it's bittersweet for me, having failed repeatedly to hang on to a marrying relationship, and the thought of all the waste, lost love, and hard feelings that too many gay people have had to endure to get to this point has me all verklempt --- but, yeah, what a week

and none of this was inevitable --- as andrew sullivan just wrote: "history is a miasma of contingency, and courage, and conviction, and chance."

i love the last paragrap in the gay marriage decision, read from the bench by justice kennedy:

No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were. As some of the petitioners in these cases demonstrate, marriage embodies a love that may endure even past death. It would misunderstand these men and women to say they disrespect the idea of marriage. Their plea is that they do respect it, respect it so deeply that they seek to find its fulfillment for themselves. Their hope is not to be condemned to live in loneliness, excluded from one of civilization’s oldest institutions. They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right. The judgment of the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit is reversed. It is so ordered.

 and it was a 5-4 decision that could have been a lot stronger --- but whatever . . . .

of course, scalia has just been irate, bitching in the obamacare dissent about "interpretive jiggery pokery" and instructing the other justices in the marriage equality decision, "go ask the nearest hippie"

there were rainbow lights on the white house last night, and on niagra falls, the chrysler building, and i don't know what all