Shakespearean Daily Diss
Posted on | November 21, 2008
“A great while ago the world begun
With hey, ho, the wind and the rain;
But that’s all one, our play is done,
And we’ll strive to please you every day.”
—Twelfth Night, 5.1.417-20
eHarmony Enters 20th Century
Posted on | November 20, 2008
After years of blatantly discriminatory practices, same-sex relationships are on the table at eHarmony, one of the biggest online matching services:
Online US dating service eHarmony.com has agreed to set up a website for gays and lesbians seeking partners after being accused of discrimination by a gay man in New Jersey state.
Under the terms of a settlement agreement announced on Wednesday by the Division on Civil Rights of New Jersey’s Attorney General’s Office, eHarmony will begin providing same-sex matching services next year.
“The relationship Web site agrees to provide a new service for match-seekers identifying themselves as ‘male seeking a male’ or ‘female seeking a female’ by March 31, 2009,” the Division on Civil Rights said in a statement.
“The company also agrees to ensure that same-sex users are matched via the same or equivalent technology as that used for heterosexual match-seekers,” the statement added.
The agreement came more than three years after Eric McKinley, a gay match-seeker from New Jersey, filed a discrimination complaint against eHarmony.
As half of a Match.com marriage that began over a dozen years ago, I’m happy to see eHarmony dragged, however unwillingly, toward equality.
Shakespearean Daily Diss
Posted on | November 20, 2008
“And thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.”
—Twelfth Night, 5.1.388-89
Shakespearean Daily Diss
Posted on | November 19, 2008
“Alas, poor fool; how they have baffled thee!” —Twelfth Night, 5.1.381
Shakespearean Daily Kiss
Posted on | November 18, 2008
“Prithee be content:
This practice hast most shrewdly pass’d upon thee;
But when we know the grounds and authors of it,
Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge
Of thine own cause.” —Twelfth Night, 5.1.362-66
Winding Down?
Posted on | November 17, 2008
The Bush Administration is beginning to face the inevitability of withdrawal from Iraq.
President George W. Bush appears to have had to climb down from his long-held opposition to an unconditional troop withdrawal from Iraq, a move which Barack Obama will likely speed up.
As the Iraqi parliament Monday began debating a US-Iraq military deal approved Sunday by the Iraqi cabinet, the White House sought to put a positive spin on the pace.
Spokeswoman Dana Perino acknowledged that Washington had had to make some compromises with the Iraqi government on the future of US troops in the Iraq…
The text, now due to be adopted by the Iraqi parliament, sets out that US forces will leave the country by December 31, 2011 — more than eight years after the March 2003 invasion — whatever the conditions on the ground.
Asked about the timing, Perino said the dates were “firm.”
We’re not wanted. Cross your fingers.
Shakespearean Daily Diss
Posted on | November 17, 2008
“Will it be ever thus? Ungracious wretch!
Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves,
Where manners ne’er were preached. Out of my sight!”
—Twelfth Night, 4.1.51-54
Shakespearean Daily Kiss
Posted on | November 14, 2008
“If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it for
an improbable fiction.” —Twelfth Night, 3.4.142-43
Shakespearean Daily Kiss
Posted on | November 13, 2008
“Nothing that can be can come between me and the full prospect
of my hopes.” —Twelfth Night, 3.4.91-92
Shakespearean Daily Diss
Posted on | November 12, 2008
“Haply your eye shall light upon some toy
You have desire to purchase; and your store,
I think, is not for idle markets.”
—Twelfth Night, 3.3.43-46
