In South Africa Now, of course, I'm happy for them. I'm happy for anybody getting married. But the fact that South Africa offers same-sex marriages is a national disgrace. Not for them, of course, but for us ! How appalling, how absurd is it that they're further ahead on this issue of basic civil rights than we are? It shouldn't be tolerated, this level of cosmic irony. It's Just Not Cool. The solution obviously isn't to relegate South Africa to being the world's backwater again. Instead... read more