[Vision2020] Eureka!

[Joan Opyr]

Dear (dieting) Visionaries:

I know I'm violating the two posts a day rule, but I must share a piece of 
good news with those of you who might be, shall we say, somewhat challenged 
in the adipose tissue department.  This afternoon, I discovered that 
Wheatberries Bakery sells a low-carb strawberry cheesecake, and -- no 
hyperbole at all here -- it was a little slice of heaven.  As I have been 
subsisting for several weeks now on meat with a side of meat smothered in 
meat sauce, AKA the Atkins Diet, I felt like weeping for joy.

So, a little blast of happiness in an otherwise dismal day.  Damn the Idaho 
legislature anyway.  In the great scheme of things, tide and time are 
against them.  But low-carb cheesecake, there's a contribution to the ages.

Joan Opyr/Pro-Cheesecake Establishment

PS:  Nineteen states allow first cousin marriages: Alabama, Florida, New 
Jersey, Tennessee,
Alaska, Georgia, New Mexico, Texas, California, Hawaii, New York, Vermont, 
Colorado, Maryland Rhode Island, Virginia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and 
South Carolina.  Four states allow first cousin marriage with restrictions 
which may include genetic counseling, the proven sterility of at least one 
of the partners, and age, i.e., the female partner is post-menopausal: 
Arizona, Maine, Illinois, and Wisconsin.

It's also worth noting that every state in the union recognizes opposite sex 
marriages conducted by Elvis impersonators; performed on television for cash 
prizes; between drunks who've just met at the slot machines in Vegas; 
between teenagers who are barely old enough to drive; between those who 
marry for money; between those who have been married eight times previously; 
between those who marry for convenience; those who marry to get their 
mothers off their backs; and those who find themselves pregnant, or trapped, 
or desperate, or frightened.

But no state legally recognizes my committed 12-year marriage to Melynda.  
In the immortal words of the Wicked Witch of the West, "What a world, what a 
world."

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