Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
A third of all divorce filings in 2011 contained the word “Facebook,” according to Divorce Online. And more than 80 percent of U.S. divorce attorneys say social networking in divorce proceedings is on the rise, according to the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.
Divorce lawyer Marian Rosen, who practices in Houston, said she’s increasingly seen social media cited in divorce proceedings and child custody battles.
“We’ve had instances where they pull up Facebook in the course of a deposition,” Rosen told ABC News, adding that in addition to proving infidelity, she’s seen cases in which children’s profiles are cited as evidence to suggest bad parenting. “Once it’s out there for the world, it’s very difficult … to erase from the past. There are going to be trails that can be followed.”
Ugh. Poor kids.
The dissenting theory sez, if your spouse’s level of dedication is such that he’s finding the profile of his old sweetie and hooking up the first time it’s convenient, then the problem is there, and Facebook is simply providing the mechanism…which effectively amounts to nothing. There is a lot of truth in this. But it ignores the demography of very weak marriages held together with paper clips and duct tape, out there, which are limping along only because there is no Facebook. Or, the marriages that were so limping-along, before Facebook entered the picture.
I do think there is a problem that predates the social media, certainly. There’s a rather unsettling column in Huffington Post, nine months old now, about thirty percent of marriages being obvious failures — at least from the bride’s point of view — before they ever take place. And this jives with something I’ve been noticing. We do seem to have an issue with people “trying on” marriages, wading in just to see where they go.
So both sides have merit, I think. Social media is a wrecking ball, but there was dry rot in the house before it made contact.
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The leading cause of divorce is…people.
If you want to “blame” it on anything I’d say it all started with Mother’s milk. Yeah, yeah, that’s it, the leading cause of divorce is Mother’s milk.
Sounds just as plausible as Facebook. Or TV, or cars, or the phone…Maybe giving the vote to women…hey wait a minute, that one may have some life…or the dishwasher, the vacuum cleaner or contraceptives…or the first caveman who thought better of dragging his wench around by her hair. I blame him! The bastard.
- tim | 05/25/2012 @ 08:34