News 7/01/10 Happy Canada Day!

(HRH Queen Elizabeth II, Pat Nixon and Prime Minister Edward Heath in 1970. If I'm not mistaken, you can just see a sliver of Tricky Dick's ear behind her majesty's astonishing, muffin-like hat.)

• The land of socialized medicine, marriage equality and an eerie lack of gunfire celebrates: Canada Day! Even Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth the Second has dropped by to hoist a few with our neighbors to the north.

• German Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition government in jeopardy as members rebel over Presidential vote.

• Creepy Idiot Freak Doctor Maria New giving dangerous drugs to pregnant women in an effort to prevent lesbians from being born.

• Since Domestic Partnership is unequal to marriage and carries a tax penalty, Google tries to make it up to their employees.

• Freedom to Marry will announce blog contest winners probably today or tomorrow. Thanks to everyone who voted and if you haven't done so already, consider donating to Freedom to Marry. They're a swell bunch of folks.

True Story: Oh, Canada...

            The Vancouver Aquarium was our first destination after exchanging vows at English Bay, and it was there in the food court that we saw the thing with the crow.

           Even the Beluga whales paused to watch the spectacle, chirping like canaries as they witnessed the theft.

            At the outdoor food court a Japanese tourist turned his back on his lunch for a moment to go get some mustard or napkins or some such thing and that was all the time the crow required to swoop in.  It touched down beside his unguarded sausage, eyed it briefly before stabbing it with his beak and flapped away into the trees leaving the bun behind.

            "Maybe the bird's on Atkin's?" Brent wondered aloud.