Love Free or Die

The great state of New Hampshire has always prided itself on its Yankee contrariness, its image as one of the last bastions of personal liberty, and yet, it took a Democratic (read: Socialist) majority in the NH House, Senate and governorship to grant marriage rights to same sex couples, recognizing that you can't have life. liberty and the pursuit of happiness if you are discriminating against a portion of the population because of your religious beliefs.

On the other hand, I shouldn't be so surprised.  Even our Democratic leaders are enamored of the idea of Live Free or Die, even if they interpret it a little differently than their Republican colleagues.  I guess I haven't decided whether this revolutionary law which even the most progressive state in the Nation, California, hasn't been able to hold onto is the result of a true change of heart here in the Granite State, or if it is entirely in keeping with our Yankee character.

In other news, Elaine and Edward Brown have finally agreed that they should be represented by lawyers in their upcoming trial.  However, they do so in the belief that they are not the people named in the indictment.  Why?  Because the indictment spells their names with all capital letters, while they spell their names with both upper and lower case letters.  New Hampshire seems to attract ideologues like this, with the result that in the same week that we were the most celebrated Progressive State in the Nation, eLaiNE and EDwaRd brOWn had to pop their heads in too and make us look crazy.  Ah, New Hampshire.  If you don't like the weather, wait five minutes.  It'll change.