Rick Santorum is once again spreading his special blend of hatred and narrow-mindedness, disguised behind transparently political concern for the American family. He claimed this morning that families and marriage are the foundation of our society, confusing the two concepts as if they were one. Mr. Santorum must not realize that there are more families in this country that are not based on the marriage of one woman and one man, and that marriages disintegrate at a far faster rate than families do. Families are indeed important to the structure of the civilization we've created, but the fact that our society has not collapsed while divorce rates have increased to over 50% and the definition of family has become more fluid, is a testament to the fact that families, and certainly not marriages, are not the only pillars of this society. Mr. Santorum hides behind the skirts of the judiciary, refusing to engage in a debate about precisely what damage would be done by allowing marriage between any two consenting adults, making dire, unfounded predictions about constitutional change that, in his apparent bid to become the Kreskin of the Senate, will occur in the near future. Perhaps he should just try bending spoons for a while - it would certainly be better aligned with his intellectual abilities.

Dreams: I was in the kitchen of a house with a big old wooden table. My husband was there with me and we were discussing how big the county is that we live in. The dream county was called West Chester, although the real county is Chester. In the dream, West Chester had apparently eaten too much over the holidays because it had become the size of Rhode Island and stretched from the southern border of Pennsylvania north to Scranton and west past Harrisburg. Even Philadelphia had been swallowed up. Apparently the dream Pennsylvania had not paid attention to the lessons of history and the results of appeasement.