my life as a dink

I got a chuckle from reading a headline in this morning's paper -- or internet rather, as papers seem to be so 1993 -- proclaiming gay couples as the new "dinks." Apparently, this serves as an acronym for "double income, no kids" since I suppose "fashion sense, no wrinkles" wouldn't do. Today marks an historic occasion as California performs it first legal gay wedding ceremony. You can just about hear the cash registers at Crate and Barrel and Williams-Sonoma cha-chinging from here. Looks as if current polling places public sentiment in favor of legalizing same-sex unions hovering around 33-40% -- poll numbers Bush would kill for. I say, live and let pay taxes. We should all have the same rights to be as miserable as our straight counterparts. After all, I predict that in five years or so, the divorce court dockets will be full of Mr Kramer vs. Mr. Kramer, and then the playing field will be truly leveled. Here comes the Groom....