silliness

latest post on my other blog. probably my last too. I was going to keep the two separate but I think it's better to have just the one.

This letter to the editor from "name withheld upon request" is just so silly.
silly, silly, silly.
I would withhold my name too if I had penned such a silly, silly thing.

Anniversary announcement alters traditional definitions
Published Monday, October 24, 2005
Editor, the Tribune:
Your article in the anniversaries section of the Oct. 16 Tribune regarding the male couple who celebrated their 25th year of commitment will probably be regarded by many as real progress. Please do not count me among those praising this new ground for the Tribune.

You have eroded the very definitions your publication has used for years. You have given "engagement," "wedding" and "anniversary" expanded meanings. If two individuals become engaged in a new business partnership, will you include it under "engagements"? If these business partners wed their business philosophies, will you include this among the weddings in your newspaper? When this business celebrates its 40th year, will you cover the milestone in your anniversaries section? As ridiculous as these scenarios might seem, they fit just as tidily into the three different sections of your newspaper as the two men’s 25 years of commitment fit into the anniversaries section.

So you included the announcement of the 25 years of commitment because some folks think they sort of have a marriage. If they dissolve their commitment, will you include it with the divorces? Will you start putting cardiac arrests in with other arrests? Will one have to be completely dead or just real sick to be in the obituaries? Will there have to be a newborn baby, or will a positive EPT be close enough to be among your birth announcements?

Never mind the moral issues involved here. Just how far do you plan to take these liberties with traditional definitions?

See what I mean, silly.
And Hateful.