No word yet from the pro-gay marriage lobby about whether this makes a "mockery of marriage"...

...like there was with the lady who married a building.

Nadine Schweigert, North Dakota Woman, 'Marries Herself,' Opens Up About Self-Marriage.

Lower tax bracket... she can visit herself in the hospital...everyone involved consents... it's hard to see a downside here.

Perhaps it's time to put a bullet through the head of the brain dead, narcissistic wreck that is post-modern Western marriage.

Speaking of narcissism, note the bride/groom's explanation for her self-marriage:

Schweigert said the ceremony was a celebration of how far she'd come since her painful divorce six years ago that led to her two children to decide to live with her ex-husband.

"Six years ago I would've handled a problem by going out and drinking," she said. "I smoked, I was 50 pounds overweight ... this is just celebrating how far I've come in my life."

The Fargo-based yoga teacher also takes herself on dates to treat herself and "to invest in this relationship".

I'm totally sure that her self-absorption had nothing to do with her two children choosing to live with their father.

Via Mark Shea.

Thought experiment: Based on the idea that morality is simply a matter of consent, and assuming that the victim was over 18 and consented, where in this story do we draw a line and call the conduct "abnormal"?

Wintery Knight relays this truly grotesque news article about truly grotesque evil:

The hunt for Luka Rocco Magnotta has gone worldwide, with INTERPOL issuing an international warrant for the arrest of the Canadian man accused in a Montreal murder that saw a torso left in a suitcase and a hand and foot mailed to the Ottawa offices of the Liberal and Conservative parties.

The global bulletin follows a Canada-wide warrant issued by Montreal police hours after officers first entered the 29-year-old suspect’s apartment — the scene of one of the most gruesome killings in Montreal in recent memory.


The police had finished their work inside and Apartment 208 was pretty much stripped bare, but the stomach-turning stench and darkened red stain on the mattress left little doubt that something terrible had happened there.

“The smell of death is not funny,” Eric Schorer, the building’s superintendent, said as he opened the door Wednesday afternoon. “If you look at the bed, that’s where it happened.”

Not only was the unidentified victim dismembered, not only were two body parts apparently mailed to political parties in Ottawa, but it has emerged that the killer filmed his crime and posted it on the Internet. The snuff film titled 1 Lunatic 1 Ice Pick, depicting the dismemberment of an Asian male body and various indignities to the remains, has provoked online debate about its veracity since it was posted last week. Police have confirmed the video depicts the actual crime.

[...]Mr. Magnotta, who has also been known as Eric Clinton Newman and Vladimir Romanov, has left abundant traces on the Internet. A Toronto native, he had worked in gay porn and as a model, but more recently he attracted attention after being linked to a 2010 online video showing kittens being suffocated with the aid of a vacuum cleaner.

A blog attributed to him and titled “Necrophilia Serial Killer Luka Magnotta” included this March 2012 post:

“It’s not cool to the world being a necrophiliac. It’s bloody lonely. But I dont (sic) really care, I have never cared what people thought of me, most people are judgemental idiots. I’m unable to talk to anybody about it and there’s always the knowledge that 99% of people would be repulsed by me if they found out about my feelings. Some people would even want to harm me.”

[...]The online video shows a naked male, tied to a bed frame, being attacked with both an ice pick and a kitchen knife, according to the description on a website called Best Gore. The victim is stabbed, has his throat slashed and is later decapitated and dismembered. The video was posted on Best Gore on May 25, but it is unclear when, or where, it was filmed.

Original story here.

It sounds like a cliche "straight-to-video" serial killer thriller. The comparison has been noted by those very close to the scene:

Residents described Magnotta as a very quiet man who kept to himself. The building’s superintendent joked about it.

“It’s like you see in the movies. It’s always the good neighbour. It’s the cliche,” he said.