So this ding bat marries a guy as “a joke” and “just for the hell of it” and then decides a few hours later to annul it.
It’s that easy. That’s insignificant. You can just turn it on and off, with no meaning.
The annulment petition says, “Before entering into the marriage the plaintiff and defendant did not know each other’s likes and dislikes, each other’s desires to have or not have children, and each other’s desires as to state of residency. Upon learning of each other’s desires, they are so incompatible that there was a want of understanding of each other’s actions in entering into this marriage.”
Taking the important vow of marriage so lightly is the true threat to traditional marriage.
But… but… but… the naughty bits fit, so you can’t acquit!
Given Britney’s lawyer said: “Spears lacked understanding of her actions to the extent that she was incapable of agreeing to the marriage,” I’d say she must have briefly eluded her keepers for this caper.
One more example to hold up the next time W or some other radical right wing-nut starts spouting off on the “sanctity of marriage.” Not like it’ll change their minds but it makes for a refreshing change of pace from citing the “Newt served divorce papers on his wife in her hospital bed” story.
But wait! According to the sources I’ve seen, Spears and this guy are close childhood friends. Could it possibly be that these close childhood friends never discussed “each other’s likes and dislikes, each other’s desires to have or not have children, and each other’s desires as to state of residency”? Either this is some definition of “close friendship” with which I have previously been unaware or Britney Alexander (I can see the drag queens lined up to lay claim to that name already) lied and perpetrated a fraud upon the court! Who’s up for a flight to Las Vegas to monkey-wrench the annulment and make her live with the consequences?
If it means she would fade into oblivion and I would never, ever have to see her picture or hear her name again, then honey, I’ll pay for the damn plane tickets down there!
“Spears lacked understanding of her actions to the extent that she was incapable of agreeing to the marriage” is lawyer-speak for “I was really, really, ruh-eally drunk.”
Judging by the speed at which she was hollering for an annulment on Saturday, unless he had really fast hands, I doubt he got lucky.
I’m betting that hindsight (or her agent) showed her that he wasn’t publicity-worthy enough to be “The One”. Plus, I bet she belatedly realized that the “childhood sweetheart” angle wasn’t really going to fly for someone who’s been concentrating on losing the “professional virgin” image, starting with her admission last summer that she wasn’t really a virgin after all…
I heard this on the news yesterday morning, and was wondering when it’d turn up in the Pit. You know, as a protest against the Defense of Marriage Act, it might make a kind of sense. As it is, I found myself wondering if she was trying to offend people. Oh well, one more arrow for the quiver, and one less reason to listen to pre-fab top 40 music.
I think the reverse may actually be true in this case; the popular consensus seems to be that what she did was moronic (and therefore not something to be imitated) - the wisdom of the wise is more sharply defined when a little idiocy exists in the backdrop.
Feh. She’s not the first kid to get snockered and hitched in Vegas, and she won’t be the last. It just illuminates the vacuum that resides under those golden tresses (like, OHMYGOD! We didn’t know she was STUPID!). Her “temp” didn’t look like he was going to win the bonus round on Jeopardy, either. I’m sure she’ll toss him some “do-re-mi” and they’ll go about their merry lives…Brittany grinding her way into the dreams of little boys everywhere, and the “temp” dreaming about what could have been…telling his buddies, ad nauseum, about the honeymoon that almost was.
I just find it sad that these dingalings think marriage is something to do just because you’re drunk and in Vegas, in between gambling and watching Wayne Newton and Celine Dion.
