Spain! Gay marriage!

What a week, wow. And a Catholic country, even.

Spanish MPs approve gay marriages!

The bill will become law in a month's time, making Spain Europe's third nation after the Netherlands and Belgium to allow same sex marriages.

Only the Netherlands and Belgium? What happened to all those Scandanavian countries? I guess they most have the same kind of "almost" marriage that Vermont or Iceland have, where there are some crucial rights missing. UPDATE: Oh, just as I thought. Denmark et al. (including Iceland, as felisblanco pointed out yesterday) have "registered partnerships", not full civil marriage. Still pretty awesome and leagues better than all those places that actively forbid gay marriage (AHEM, cough, 40 U.S. states).

Still, WOW.

Ice cream epiphany!

Yesterday I had the most amazing ice cream-related epiphany EVER. See, I never really knew the right way to eat an ice cream cone. In thirty-six years, no one ever taught me the right way to do it, and as a result, I always got ice cream drippings all over my face and shirt, and never really enjoyed the Ice Cream Cone Experience.

But yesterday my sweet darling wife taught me the right way to eat one, and wow, that was the best-tasting ice cream ever. I know this seems silly and makes it apparent that I was in fact raised by Wolves, but it made me so happy. I'm a simpleton.

Serenity: A Buddist Perspective (Mild Spoilage)

Serenity: A Buddist Perspective (Mild Spoilage), by elflore.

Don't click it if you are at all Spoiler-phobic, but if you have seen the film already and want to understand and come to peace with certain rather difficult things that happened in the movie, this will help you, I really think it will. It helped me.

elflore originally posted this on the Browncoats message board, but then I found out he had an LJ, so I didn't have to link you to a site requiring registration. Not that more Browncoats members would go amiss!