Wednesday, December 6, 2006
[1830 - Naval Observatory established at Washington, DC]
[1884 - Washington Monument construction completed]
[1886 - Joyce (Alfred) Kilmer, poet, born in New Brunswick, New Jersey]
[1896 - Ira Gershwin (Israel Gershvin), lyricist, born in New York City]
[1898 - Alfred Eisenstaedt, photographer, born in Dirschau, West Prussia (now Tczew, Poland)]
[1921 - Otto Graham, College and Pro Football Hall of Famer, born in Waukegan, Illinois]
Natural Law
A fundamentalist initiative to amend the California Constitution to ban gay marriage in the State on the grounds that it violates "Natural Law" went down to defeat in a previous election. This may have been due to a statement from the spokesman for the group who thoughtfully explained that the reason Natural Law was violated was that: "The body parts don't fit together." The notion that a homophobic bigot should hold himself out as an authority on how body parts fit together in acts of gay sex was apparently so absurd as not to be lost on the electorate.
OR IF YOU PREFER
William's Whimsical Words:
Come to think of it, these don't look like they fit together very well either:
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