Posts tagged as Divorce
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"Louie" in Divorceland, Where a Fun Schlub is a Super-Stud
Second in a pair of essays today on Louis C.K. Previously: The Louie Bubble. READ MORE
The Facebook Divorce
Ignore for a moment the potential precedent set by a judge's decision that the combatants in a Connecticut divorce case should have to share their passwords to several social networking sites to aide the discovery process. Instead focus on the magic that occurs around the one minute mark of this video, when the reporter appears in three places at once. ASTOUNDING! Okay, now return your focus to the potential precedent. The future really is now, isn't it?
Oh, The Gay Divorces
The best part of the GET READY FOR GAY DIVORCE stories are the anecdotes, like this couple who shared "a love of fur coats and gold jewelry": "The two are now in the messy process of untangling their lives—a web that has grown to include four purebred Rhodesian Ridgebacks, three houses, and one financially dependent parent." (Instead of letting them get gay-divorced, couldn't we just exile them to Antarctica? Won't someone think of the Ridgebacks?) Anyway, gay divorce: pro or con? Totally pro, right?
Great News About The Economy! People Are Divorcing Again!
"In a grim sign of the economic recovery, the divorce rate, which dipped during the recession, appears to be on the rebound."
One More Thing To Blame Your Parents For
If your folks busted up, Science has some bad news for you: "Children whose parents divorce are more than twice as likely to suffer a stroke at some point during their lives than other children, according to a new study. The link between the two held even when the researchers accounted for other known stroke risk factors, such as obesity, smoking and diabetes. It is the first time such a link has been shown, the researchers said." READ MORE
The Devaluing of London's Marital Bond Market
While other overclass miscalculations spark bailout after bailout, dissolving alpha-grade marital bonds is a far trickier business. There is, for instance, the matter of shielding your liquid assets from a grasping ex, to say nothing of the messy personal details that tend to come out in bitterly contested divorce proceedings. READ MORE
Straight Marriage To Be Just a Voluntary Contract in New York
New York State may at last join the rest of the country in no-fault divorce-a bill has passed the state Senate, and the Assembly is dealing with two bills on the matter. There's a very helpful series of contributions, largely from actual people who know things, in the Times: an economist, a law professor, a sociologist... and then two policy people/lobbyists. Surprisingly, the most distressing of these contributions is from the president the New York chapter of NOW. READ MORE
Neighborliness And No Loneliness? What City Am I Living In?
New York is changing. New York is always changing. Now it's a place where people come to raise families; you can't smoke in bars; the Meatpacking District is like Miami or Los Angeles or Milan or something; Times Square is like Disneyland except with more car bombs. All true. But sometimes it seems like New York is changing faster and more dramatically than you'd ever expect. Like when the place seems to be losing its most New York characteristics. READ MORE
When the Helicopter Class Divorces
The rudderless public outrage over executive compensation in the financial industry has clearly gone too far. It's one thing to set limits on cash bonuses for top bankers who live and breathe the heady empyrean of financial risk-but it's another thing altogether to challenge the one core security they know in this vale of tears. We speak, of course, of their right to dissolve their marriages and conquer fresh free markets of the heart. As Bloomberg correspondent Alexis Leondis notes, "divorce settlements for executives such as bankers who rely on bonus payouts are becoming harder to negotiate as some firms give employees less cash and more long-term incentive awards including restricted stock and deferred money." READ MORE
