Tonight ended a rather lackluster 3 game ECAC string for the BU hockey team. They went 1-1-1 over Thanksgiving week, losing the annual tilt with Harvard (the first BU loss at Harvard in 21 years), tying Dartmouth by giving up a goal with 14 seconds left, and beating Yale (of small comfort given that Yale was 3-7 entering the game). Now begins the main part of our Hockey East slog, with brief interruptions for games against Niagara and Minnesota (who is having problems of their own, as they currently stand at 6-7-1) and the Beanpot. We get to start with a game at BC on Friday. Great.

Speaking of Catholics, at the end of Mass today the priest read a statement from all four Massachusetts bishops (Boston, Worcester, Spriingfield, and Fall River) regarding the recent SJC ruling regarding same-sex marriage. They termed the ruling a "national tragedy" and would at least like more time than the 180 days to figure this thing out. What they'd really like is a constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of a man and woman and no law permitting same-sex unions at all.

All of this was couched as for the "protection of marriage," which makes me wonder why the bishops never get together to decry how easy the state makes it for married couples to get divorced. Isn't divorce an even bigger threat to marriage? If divorce wasn't an option, you'd have to think that people would choose their mates a lot more closely (and probably not on national TV, an added bonus). You'd also have fewer legal problems as you'd not have to worry about child support, visitation, and all the other stuff that makes families suffer and lawyers rich.

Considering today's statement came at the start of Advent, perhaps they're saving the anti-divorce statement for the start of Lent.