I came across a fascinating article in The Daily Beast this morning about a phenomenon a priest mentioned last summer. He said he wouldn’t have to alter his weekend Mass schedule to accommodate weddings because they’re just weren’t enough weddings to warrant it.

“Nobody wants to commit,’ he lamented.

The Beast’s Hannah Seligson writes:

“The median age for a first marriage in the United States is the highest it’s ever been—27.1 for a man and 25.3 for a woman—and it skews even higher in many cities, giving way to more years of dating before marriage. In fact, 23 million adults are in unmarried committed relationships. Over 12 million unmarried partners live together, a trend that is being exhibited in a large part by the 25-to-34-year-old demo.

‘Dating is not what it was 50 years ago. Dating is evolving into this gradual process of moving in. It involves nights spent over at one or the other’s place. There’s the toothbrush, then a few items of clothing. All of a sudden, they realize they’ve moved in,’ says Pamela Smock, a sociologist at the University of Michigan who studies cohabitation.”

 Seligson thinks she knows why singles don’t perceive marriage as the great deal it once seemed to be. Check out her article here (and then come back and tell us what you think).

So says an woman who came out to see Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour, who appeared at the opening of a new documentary that takes viewers behind closed doors of the fabled fashion magazine.

And I’d say that’s certainly encouraging for women who stumble through their careers afraid to take a stand (”Don’t make waves,” my first boss,  a man, warned me).

A lot of us still want to be liked at all costs.

But, apparently, Wintour is not one of us. Today’s The Daily Beast features an article by another successful woman, Tina Brown (former head honcho at Vanity Fair, the now-defunct Talk, and The New Yorker)  who details how Wintour’s job was on the line only months ago (she wasn’t selling too many ads in this economy, and her boss, Conde Nast Chairman Si Newhouse wanted a replacement).

The ‘bitch’ managed to turn things around. Three months after the crisis, she’s back on top.  Read Brown’s article here.

In case you haven’t already heard, former presidential candidate John McCain’s daughter, Meghan, a writer for The Daily Beast, suggested that an extremist like Ann Coulter isn’t doing the Republican party any favors.

Conservative pundit Laura Ingraham rose to Coulter’s defense by doing an ugly Valley Girl imitation of McCain (which made Ingraham sound more of a fool than her intended target) and referred to her as a ‘plus-sized’ model. We all have the right to disagree, but it really is disheartening when one woman calls another out on her weight. Surely we can do better than this. Meghan later appeared on The View and struck back.

For another perspective on this story, check out Crooks and Liars.