ciroccoj | Te amo, Maria. Te amo, Chupacabras. (Reply)

Have been watching The X-Files and Star Trek on DVD. ::happy geek sigh::

Why did nobody tell me that Mitch Pileggi was on Stargate: Atlantis? It's too bad we're about to cancel our cable subscription, because damn, I would've started watching the show just for him ::goes all fangirly::
Kids are at March Break camp... in the grocery store. Every time I take them there, I feel like the world's lamest mom, but they really like it. And I get to do my grocery shopping every day, and walk 80 minutes a day.
Daniel's skirting snarkiness and disrespect these days. I'm really hoping it's a transitory phase and not the ominous rumblings of impending puberty.
Did you know that in Canada, if you marry for the express purpose of being able to immigrate into Canada, your marriage is still considered legal? The court says it's none of their business why you got married; for love, sex, money, immigration status, whatever, it's all good.

The only slight hitch is that once you're, um, hitched, you have to make an honest go of it. So if you marry to get in, and then try to get divorced your petition may very well be denied on the basis that you tried to commit fraud because you had no intention of remaining married. So... there you'll sit. Irrevocably married.

None of this seems quite right, somehow. But that's what the line of cases our Family Law profs gave us seem to be saying.
Also, if you're married, you suspect your wife of cheating, follow her to a hotel room where she's staying with another man, sneak in while they go out for drinks and hide in the closet, wait for them to come in and start having sex and then jump out of the closet and throw their clothing out the window, you cannot then sue for divorce on the grounds of adultery. Or rather, "[b]efore that relief can properly be granted the Court must be satisfied that the plaintiff is not himself so implicated or involved in the wrong-doing of his wife."

At least, that was the law in 1943.
Was reminded of this yesterday, so I hunted down a link I'd meant to post a long time ago: Al Gore's "Inconvenient Truth" Movie: Fact or Hype?, from National Geographic. Interesting stuff.