SCOTUS opens door for federal recognition of same-sex marriages

The federal definition of marriage as being between one man and one woman appears to be unconstitutional, with the expected sort of 5-4 split that essentially says it's an issue with no clear answer.

Not unexpected, given the number of states that provide for same-sex marriage, the military no longer excluding people based upon their sexual identification, and the general acceptance in popular culture of gay (male homosexual) and lesbian (female homosexual) characters in most forms of media and entertainment.

There's a set of train tracks, and the train isn't levitating or going off the rails or suddenly stopping against its own inertia.

So now the legal doors are open to recognizing same-sex marriages at the federal level.    Is anyone really surprised?     The times, they are a-changin'.

The curiousness of time slipping

If not apparent from the last discombobulated rant, we're still in the middle of watching Revolution.   Well not the middle, finishing with 15 of 20.   So while everyone who watched one week at a time has the story, we don't.   It will be interesting to see how the guesses work out, but with how things are going, we don't guess much since it can be yanked any which way at this point.    Still, it's interesting.  Slow, although not slow-paced, with so much going on.   But we're kind of ready for the main story to be over, so if we learn anything in the meantime, no big deal.   Still, not purposely going out of our way to learn any more than what's in the show.

One thing that springs to mind about this, is rather than having one show to watch and then a week to think about things in it (or forget about things in it) instead,  watching two or five at a time compresses things.   Maybe it compresses them into something that maybe makes how the overall comes across less believable, more contrived, and aggravating than it would be otherwise.

Whichever, that is a question, which is difficult to answer.  How do you imagine watching something once a week, when you've been watching multiple episodes a day multiple days in a row?   You really can't.

You say you want a Revolution, well.... Not really.

The NBC television show Revolution.    We finally got around to watching it, and the story starts out with both a bang and a whimper.  Sort of like watching it.  

Make no mistake, the story is quite interesting.    An "enough to keep watching the show" sort of interesting.    However, this show has some major problems.   Perhaps you've noticed them.  Perhaps they've upset you as well.

We'll get into all that after the fold.   There will be spoilers.