Because I'm just real grateful for these cuties in my life...

The love of a good woman...

With all the prop 8 confusion going on, it is nice to read something like the following from Nicholas Kristof's lastest article in the NY Times, The White Underclass:

"Liberals sometimes feel that it is narrow-minded to favor traditional marriage. Over time, my reporting on poverty has led me to disagree: Solid marriages have a huge beneficial impact on the lives of the poor (more so than in the lives of the middle class, who have more cushion when things go wrong).

One study of low-income delinquent young men in Boston found that one of the factors that had the greatest impact in turning them away from crime was marrying women they cared about. As Steven Pinker notes in his recent book, “The Better Angels of Our Nature”: “The idea that young men are civilized by women and marriage may seem as corny as Kansas in August, but it has become a commonplace of modern criminology.”

Woof!

Wonder Dog

This is a long read, but everyone knows I'm a sucker for dog stories.  If you're not a dog lover and can get through it all, I promise you'll be converted.  If however, you have long been a true believer of the axiom dog is man's best friend, prepare for a cry fest.