It’s Monday and at least some of you get to enjoy a 3-day weekend. The rest of us have to work. So let’s open this thread.
Anyone who is tempted to rekindle old romances or start new ones on the internet be warned: Facebook is now being cited in almost 20 per cent of divorces.
A law firm in America has made the startling claim after discovering that nearly one in five of its clients named the social networking site in their petitions.
Divorce-Online’s managing director Mark Keenan said he was “really surprised” to discover that out of 5,436 cases, 989 contained a reference to Facebook. “The most common reason seemed to be people having inappropriate sexual chats with people they were not supposed to,” he said.
Ah, the digital age! Facebook is only the tool for cheating spouses, not the actual cause.
It’s about time we started discussing this topic:
Vice President Joe Biden said at a Florida fundraiser Sunday that the 60-seat threshold for passing legislation in the Senate put a dangerous new roadblock in the way of American government.
“As long as I have served … I’ve never seen, as my uncle once said, the constitution stood on its head as they’ve done. This is the first time every single solitary decisions has required 60 senators,” Biden said. “No democracy has survived needing a supermajority.”
Despite that dire warning, Biden said he’s “optimistic” the country will appreciate the administration’s accomplishments: “The American people are very smart, and we’ll demonstrate by November that the project is working.”
I think there needs to be a change because the U.S. will become almost ungovernable if the status quo continues and Scott Brown becomes a Senator. We need to find a way to balance the needs of the minority party with the need of the majority to function. The current rules are being abused and they need to change. I just wish the administration had been making this argument for long and not just now when it looks like they’re about to lose their 60-seat majority.