The View From Kalamazoo

Arlington, Virginia; The Executive Board of the American Anthropological Association, the world’s largest organization of anthropologists, the people who study culture, releases the following statement in response to President Bush’s call for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage as a threat to civilization.

“The results of more than a century of anthropological research on households, kinship relationships, and families, across cultures and through time, provide no support whatsoever for the view that either civilization or viable social orders depend upon marriage as an exclusively heterosexual institution. Rather, anthropological research supports the conclusion that a vast array of family types, including families built upon same-sex partnerships, can contribute to stable and humane societies.

The Executive Board of the American Anthropological Association strongly opposes a constitutional amendment limiting marriage to heterosexual couples.”

Some Texans Boycott Girl Scout Cookies

CRAWFORD, Texas – Some families are boycotting Thin Mints and Do-Si-Dos and other Girl Scout cookies. Troop 7527 is down to just two members after the other girls were withdrawn by their parents. And Brownie Troop 7087 is no more.

…The two troops in Crawford, population 700, decided not to deliver the cookie
orders that they had already taken.

But cookie sales have skyrocketed this year as many people bought cases just
to show their support for the Girl Scouts, said Becky Parker, a troop leader who
is the cookie distributor for Waco-area troops.

Read down to the reference to soft-core porn. It’s all just faaabulous. [I’ve already put my cookie order in this year!]