Is anyone really surprised by the impending divorce of reality TV superstar Kim Kardashian and NBA non-superstar Kris Humphries? I'm guessing not based on the number of questions being asked about whether the 72-day marriage that followed the wedding that seemed to get nearly as much attention as April's royal wedding. When I saw Kardashian's mother responding somewhat indignantly to that question, it struck me just how lacking in self-awareness that family seems to be. Does she not realize that that a key reason questions about how authentic her daughter's marriage is stem from the fact that the only person in the family who's famous for an actual accomplishment, Olympic champion Bruce Jenner, is a rather late addition to the family who's not biologically related to the majority of the kids?
Still, the situation could be cause for some degree of optimism. Even assuming the Kardashian/Humphries marriage was genuine, things like this invalidate any claims that allowing gay people to marry somehow compromises the "sanctity of marriage". That's not to say that the Santorums of the world (referring here to the person rather than the "Google problem" that bears his name) won't continue to argue otherwise. It just means there's more reason to hope their screeds will fall on increasingly deaf ears.
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