I wasn't going to write about how cute Brangelina looks in these photos after seeing them over at Oh No They Didn't. That is, until I saw on my twitter stream a messed up article about the Jolie-Pitts, ganked right out of gossip blogs, published on the Puerto Rican newspaper EL Nuevo Día.

What the hell people?!?! No wonder journalism is dead.

To which I say, TEAM BRANGIE! They soften this cynical bitch's hard cold heart and make me want to fall in love again.

They're just adorable.

Congratulations to Ann Althouse who's getting married thanks to her blog. This from Althouse: 500 miles later, I'm back in Madison.:

Did you understand the previous post? If not, the answer --along with much congratulations and debate -- appears in the comments, notably here. Let there be no doubt about it: A blogger --Althouse-- is engaged to be married to a man who began his connection to her as a commenter on her blog. After 4 years of writing at each other, we met in real life and found real love

This may be described as a power of blogs for love. At some point I will have to write a post titled, "Blogging Killed My Marriage". The title in itself is half the story, but you will have to wait for the other half. I can't write about it now.

There's a discussion over at Over at Jack and Jill Politics about a 1996 interview the French newspaper Le Monde published just yesterday. It's was meant to be for a book called "American Couples" but it never saw the light of day. Until Saturday. That's 12 years later. And, by the way, it seems Le Monde published the story but didn't alert neither the new President nor US media.

The story was noticed in Le Monde by Tom McCarthy at the ABC News desk and translated from the French by Maeva Bambuck and Jean Fievet in ABC News' London bureau. (When assessing the precise accuracy of the quotes below, keep in mind they have now been translated from English to French to English.)

It's seems they were interview separately, so the answers to the questions sound much more candid and yet, themes that they've discussed today about privacy, about their different ethnic and class backgrounds, about their complimentary sense of humor are all there 12 years ago.

It's amazing to me to find people this in-tune and in love as the Obamas are. They almost make you hate them for being so happy and so utterly in love with each other.

I have to say, am just amazed and impressed. My marriage was never like that but as a helplessly romantic soul, I hope to find my soul mate and the love of my life the way these two have.

It really is inspiring.

And with that, here's my favorite moments of the interview :
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Back in July I wrote a post titled Pain that went under the radar for a lot of people but for my hardcore readers. It's interesting looking back at it that it's a post almost at the year's mid-point and that it was the first time I was openly acknowledging in more than a year that offline Liza was living a very different life than Liza online.

And yet I really didn't own up to everything that was and has been ailing me : 2008 goes down as the year I had to contend with the fact that the life I've lived for the last 10 years is over and that the physical pain that has been bashing me for the past year and a half has been amplified by the emotional anguish of knowing that my marriage is over.
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We've been so busy all morning we have not been able to even write a quick note about these fantastic news :

Dick Cheney's next grandchild will have two mommies, to the horror of his conservative fans.
The White House says Cheney's openly gay daughter and top political adviser, Mary, is expecting a baby this spring with her lover of 15 years, Heather Poe.

"The vice president and Mrs. Cheney are looking forward with eager anticipation to the arrival," the veep's office said in a statement.

The father's identity was not revealed.

The veep's daughter will have to remain an unwed mom: Cheney, 37, an AOL executive, and Poe, a 45-year-old former park ranger, live in Virginia, which just passed the kind of constitutional ban on same-sex marriages that the Bush administration has been pushing nationally.

"The irony is that the grandfather of this child is part of a party and an administration that has relentlessly attacked gay and lesbian families," said Jennifer Chrisler, head of Family Pride, an advocacy group for gay parents.

"So his own grandchild will not have the same legal protections other children enjoy. And Heather will have no legal relationship with the child. She can't make a hospital visit or even sign a school field trip form," Chrisler said.

So the Vice-President's daughter's partner, Heather Poe, can't legally take care of their child. She can't even adopt her daughter because, as long as there is one mom alive, that's what the Bible Beltway political muckrakers were able to pass as law in the state of Virginia.
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