Meaning and Meaningfulness

A federal judge struck down Alaska’s first-in-the-nation ban on homosexual unions. The law dated to 1998, which shows you just how recently it became worthwhile to even bother.

For most of the last few millennia, “same-sex marriage” was something like “the square root of –1” — one could grok each word in the locution but have no idea what they amounted to strung together.