Two quickies that caught my eye:

• A Pennsylvania court has ruled that a child can have three legal parents. The case involved a lesbian couple and the friend who donated sperm for the two resulting children. When the couple broke up, the court was asked to intervene and all three adults were assigned financial responsibility. The weirdest thing to me -- the article had quite a few examples from around the world to cite when discussing the issue. <a nod to: mere orthodoxy via the postmodern conservative>

• The Uber Rich are buying -- of all things -- submarines. The article I read mentions "fantasy and secrecy" as two of the reasons a small group of individuals have been plunking down multiple millions. What will they think of next?