This is the mortification of spin bully pulpit.

And I am one half of your hosting team, Todd Pruitt, and I'm joined as always by Carl Truman.

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On this episode of The Bullie Polpit, we find out how mad, mad, mad, the world has become,

the godless go to church and the bar of marriage falls even lower.

Carl, tell us what's on our mind this evening.

Well, I think this evening, Todd, we want to look at just how mad the world has gone.

We've got a couple of stories to discuss, and I'm going to lead off with a real cracker here.

I know that you're a big fan of the Huffington Post.

So you've said this story already.

But the Huffington Post leads with this story.

Nadine Schweigert, North Dakota woman, marries herself and opens up about self-marriage.

And I'll give you some choice quotations here.

36-year-old North Dakota woman who married herself in a commitment ceremony last March has now spoken about her self-marriage choice in an interview with Anderson Cooper.

The marriage took place among friends and family who were encouraged to, and I quote, blow kisses to the world after she exchanged rings with her inner groom, my Fox Phoenix reports.

I want to feel very empowered, very happy, very joyous.

I want to share that with people and also the people that were in attendance.

It's a form of accountability, Nardine Schweigert,

told Anderson Cooper. Six years ago, I would have handled a problem by going out and drinking,

she said. I smoked. I was 50 pounds overweight. She sounds like a typical reform pastor, actually.

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