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Technology Alters Rules For Conducting Affairs Of The Heart

Welcome to relationships in 2010. It’s a world where 400 of your closest Twitter followers can figure out that you’re single before you do. You can befriend an ex online and aggravate a current, or start an argument via e-mail, flip to text messages and then end it face-to-face

…Previous Page Cornell Wilson, 48, loves Facebook. But he hates the idea of blasting his personal information across the online social network so much that he rejected an event invitation to his own wedding.”I said, ‘Baby, how does that look?’ ” his fiancee, Denise R. Black, recounted. ” ‘You are the groom, and you have rejected the invitation to our wedding.’ ” For now, the invitation, which Black, 45, sent again after a face-to-face kerfuffle, is pending in Wilson’s Facebook inbox.Meanwhile, the paper invitations are going in the mail soon.Welcome to relationships in 2010.It’s a world where 400 of your closest Twitter followers can figure out that you’re single before you do. Or you can see whom your ex is dating just by logging on to Facebook. (If you don’t, one of your mutual friends will find out for you.) You can befriend an ex online and aggravate a current, or start an argument via e-mail, flip to text messages and then end it face-to-face. And let’s not forget cyberstalking.The Web, smart phones and…

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Justice Kennedy is the final word in America’s court fights

Why not just e-mail Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy for his opinion on Arizona’s anti-immigration law or California’s Prop 8 which bans gay marriages. With all the judge shopping that goes around to nullify legislative accomplishments or people’s votes, we all know on most issues it will get to the high court and Kennedy will make the call.

…Why do we waste all this time shopping for judges to issue opinions on gay marriage, immigration or guns, why not just send Justice Anthony Kennedy an e-mail and have him tell us how he’ll rule on California’s gay marriage ban, or Arizona’s immigration law. The Supreme Court’s moderate has become the ultimate voice in America’s great social debate.
On guns, abortion, crosses, etc., after years of winding these cases through the courts, we’ve relied on Justice Kennedy to make the law. OK, I understand that’s how we do things in the judiciary, which has the ultimate say over laws and initiatives. But we need to ask ourselves if judge-shopping and years of appeals before the Supreme Court has the final say is the best method to resolve a contentious cultural debate. It’s been almost 40 years since the Supreme Court decided abortion was a constitutional right, and we’re as divided as ever on that issue. Had the court not triumphed states in Roe v. Wade, I believe the issue, through gradual public consensus,…

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